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Contract term or two weeks notice, what prevails

Question: I am currently on H1-B visa working for an Indian IT company and working at client location at Saint Paul Minnesota . I submitted my resignation last Friday and told them I can serve only 2 weeks of notice period but my manager is asking to serve 60 days as per my Indian offer letter. Please let me know if I can stop working after 2 weeks by submitting my laptop and ID and will there be any consequences.

Answer: You will be held responsible to the contractual terms you have signed off on. If the offer/contract from India is asking for 60 day notice period and has provisions to enforce it with damages or injunctions, than you will be held liable to it. A two week notice is not a requirement or guarantee to waive off the contract.