Law queries

Is it true that if you haven't worked for at least a month there is no obligation to give notice if you decide you don't want to continue in the job?

Yes it is. The obligation to give statutory notice of a week only applies where the contract has lasted for at least a month. This is the case whether it is the employer or employee who is giving the notice. It may, of course, be the case that the employee's contract imposes a contractual obligation to give notice, even where the contract has run for less than a month. It there is such a contractual term the employee would be bound by it.

* More information: LRD booklet, Law at work 2002