Resignation letter template and other free model letters

Changing jobs comes with letters and emails: your resignation, sometimes a counter-notice, accepting or declining an offer. You will find them all here as plain text. Fill in the fields in square brackets, copy or download, and you are done. No form, no email address.

The form rules for giving notice, in short

• Notice is given in writing and states the start and the length of the notice period. If either is missing, the notice is void. According to the FPS Employment, the termination still stands, the contract ends at once and the party giving notice owes compensation in lieu of notice.
• If you give notice, you have three ways: you hand the letter to your employer, you send it by registered post or you have a bailiff serve it. If your employer signs the duplicate, that signature only counts as an acknowledgement of receipt.
• If the employer gives notice, this can only be done by registered letter or through a bailiff. Handing over the letter at work is not enough, except in companies under the joint committee for inland navigation. Notice in any other form is void; the employee cannot waive that nullity and the court establishes it of its own motion.
• A registered letter only takes effect on the third working day after the date it was sent. Every day of the week counts as a working day except Sundays and public holidays.
• The notice period starts running on the Monday after the week in which notice was given.

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These are models, not legal advice. Adapt them to your own situation; your contract, your collective agreement and your payroll provider, union or lawyer remain decisive.