Country coverage
Notice periods by country
Which countries this site has read the law for, which it has not, and what it will tell you in either case. The calculators work anywhere. The legal guidance does not, and this page is where that difference is stated plainly rather than left for you to discover.
This page is about the state of the research, not about any one country’s law. Nothing on it is legal advice.
General information only. Employment rules depend on your contract and location.
Countries with a record
Eight countries, and the honest status of each. Every other country resolves to “general guidance only”, which is a status rather than an error.
| Country | Coverage | Employment authority | Sources last read |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Verified guidance available | Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) | August 20, 2026 |
| Singapore | Verified guidance available | Ministry of Manpower | August 20, 2026 |
| Germany | Verified guidance available | Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales | August 20, 2026 |
| France | Verified guidance available | Service-Public.fr (Direction de l’information légale et administrative) | August 20, 2026 |
| United States | Partly verified | Not link-checked in this cycle | August 20, 2026 |
| Canada | Partly verified | Not link-checked in this cycle | August 20, 2026 |
| India | Source review required | Ministry of Labour & Employment | Not read in this cycle |
| Australia | Source review required | Not link-checked in this cycle | Not read in this cycle |
What the four statuses mean
A country moves up this list when someone opens the authority’s own pages, reads them, and writes claims that can be checked against them. Not when a search result mentions the rule, not when a competitor cites it, and not because the country is large enough that the omission looks odd.
- Verified
- Every published statement about the country names the government source it was read from and the date it was read. There is a page, and it links to its own sources.
- Partly verified
- Something has been read and confirmed, but not enough to describe the country as a whole — usually because the rules that decide notice sit below the national level, or in the employment contract. No page is published from a partial picture.
- Source review required
- The authority is known and its pages have not been read in this review cycle. Sometimes that is a scheduling matter; in one case the authority’s website does not respond to requests from this project at all. Either way nothing country-specific is published.
- General guidance only
- No jurisdiction research has been done. This is the state of most of the world, and it is stated rather than hidden. The tools still work and the contract checklist still applies.
If your country is not on the list
You lose the legal half and keep everything else, which is more than it sounds. The notice calculator still projects your last working day and the date you would have to resign by to hit a deadline. The runway calculator still tells you how long your savings last once the salary stops. The exit check still walks through your contract, your timing and your money, and still hands you the questions to put to HR in writing. What it will not do is tell you what the law where you work says, because nobody here has read it.
What to do instead
- Find your employment agreement and the written statement of terms that came with it, and read the notice clause and anything about payment in lieu.
- Check whether a collective or sector agreement covers your role. It is the source people most often do not know applies to them.
- Ask HR, in writing, three things: how long your notice period is, what date the count starts from, and whether leaving early can be settled with a payment.
- Find your country’s labour authority and read what it publishes about resignation before you act on anything you read anywhere else.
The tools, wherever you are
- Project your last working day — jurisdiction-neutral arithmetic: your notice period, your start basis, your dates.
- Work out your runway — how long your savings cover your outgoings once the salary stops.
- Can I quit without notice? — six questions, and a result that says which of the four statuses above applies to you.
- Read the methodology behind this table — the source tiers, the verification process, and how to cite the dataset this table is generated from.