Standards
What notice is fair when ending a cleaning job?
Whatever notice both sides agreed before the first day. Either side may end the engagement by giving that notice - it is given, not sprung - and wages already earned are paid in full, however it ends.
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Clause 6 of the Charter
The plain answer
There is no single "fair" number the Charter imposes, and that is deliberate. The fair notice is the notice both sides agreed before the first day, under clause two. A week, a fortnight, a month - what matters is that it was settled up front, in the open, rather than invented at the worst possible moment.
What clause six does fix is the manner of it. Notice is given, not sprung. Neither a household nor a cleaner should discover the engagement is over by an empty morning or a locked gate. Ending well is part of the professional bargain, on both sides.
And one thing is not negotiable at the end: wages already earned are paid in full, regardless of how the engagement ends or whose decision it was. A dispute about the future is never a reason to withhold pay for work already done. If it happens anyway, withholding earned wages is a breach Kleana treats seriously - see how to report a problem.
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