'It's not about doing the employer a favour, it's about living up to legal obligations'
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“An employee is obligated to accept comparable employment if it comes their way during the common law notice period - and that doesn't mean exactly identical employment, it means comparable with the wages, the duties, and the responsibilities being similar, if not exactly the same.”