Questions and answers
What does minimum compensation mean?
If you are a salaried employee and are released from notice during your notice of termination, you are always entitled to a minimum compensation corresponding to 3 months’ salary from your original employer – even if you find a new job during the notice period.
However, if you are only released from notice during the course of your notice of termination, the minimum compensation only has to be paid until the end of your notice period. I.e. if there are less than 3 months left of the notice of termination, the minimum compensation may amount to less than 3 months’ salary, and therefore cannot be offset against the salary.
Please note that if you get a job at a competing company, you will only be entitled to minimum compensation if your original employer grants permission to compete. Otherwise, you must counter-resign your position so that you can take the new job.
When am I entitled to minimum compensation?
If you are terminated and released from notice during your notice of termination, you may be entitled to salary from your original employer – even if you find a new job during the period of being released from notice.
If you are released from notice for more than three months, the calculation can help you by finding out whether you have receivable salary from your previous employer in addition to the minimum compensation (the first three months’ salary).
I.e. if you are released from notice for three months or less, it is not necessary to use the calculator because you are always entitled to full salary from your previous employer, regardless of whether you also receive salary from a new employer during the same period.