Starting employment involves navigating contracts, onboarding, and compliance. This topic provides guidance on establishing clear terms and fostering positive employer-employee relationships from the outset.
The following Information Law news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on From stalemate to statute—the Data (Use and Access) Act’s journey and the key data protection and ePrivacy changes
The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Employment weekly highlights—14 August 2025
The government has published proposed new benefit and pension rates for 2024 to 2025 including in respect of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory...
ET1 grounds of claim—indirect sex discrimination[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant is a woman and the Respondent is [enter details,...
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
The term of trust and confidenceThis Practice Note analyses the term or duty of mutual trust and confidence (in a fiduciary sense) implied or imposed into every contract of employment. It considers the mutual or two-way duty of trust and confidence, which requires employer and employee not to
Illegal and unlawful contractual terms in employmentThis Practice Note considers the issues that arise in relation to illegal and unlawful contractual terms that may be encountered in an employment context.The contract of employment may be tainted with illegality in the same way as any other
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
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