Medical experts usually say the average person can live for 4 to 6 weeks without food. The amount of time someone can go without water is much shorter, roughly a week (or less).
Your employer can force you to take leave at a particular time as long as they give you at least two weeks' notice. However, it is common for employer and employee to come to an agreement about the timing of annual leave. If you put in a request for leave, your employer has to have a good reason to refuse it.
Unless you entered a contract specifying otherwise upon getting hired, you are not required to give any notice before resigning. However, you should give at least two weeksâ notice to your employers, advises employment laywer Sean Becker in a 2010 âHouston Chronicleâ article. In this time, the employer will post a vacancy for your job and distribute your work to other employees. Beverly Langford, author of the book, âThe Etiquette Edge,â advises meeting face-to-face and a handing your employer a formal letter explaining your intentions.