About Employment Law
We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten into the precious hours in your working day.
Starting employment
We cover recruitment, employment contracts, policies, handbooks and more. It’s not just contracts though. Other documents may regulate the employment relationship, such as policies, procedures and collective agreements.
Managing the employment relationship
Sickness and absence is a common occurrence in an employment relationship that brings up multiple legal issues. We offer a range of resources with practical guidance and legal considerations.
TUPE, outsourcing, share. and asset purchases
TUPE 2006 will likely apply when acquiring businesses through an asset purchase. You’ll need to consider due diligence, consultation obligations, employees and liabilities transferred to the buyer.
Stay on top of changes
We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten
Topics We Cover
Latest Employment News
The Home Office has issued a new Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 997, along with an Explanatory Memorandum (EM) on 1 July 2025. In...
The Bank of England (BoE) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have published their annual report for 2024/25 under the Prescribed Persons...
The Home Office has issued an updated version of its ‘Employer’s guide to right to work checks’ document, with the changes primarily related to...
This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) clarification from the EHRC on the requirements for separate-sex facilities in the...
UK businesses will face a six- to nine-month implementation window for the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA), with the first changes expected by...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
Auto-enrolment—an introductionFORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill received Royal Assent on 18...
Employment tribunal case managementThe overriding objectiveAt the heart of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure (ET Rules) is the 'overriding...
How to handle data subject requestsThis Practice Note is intended for private sector commercial organisations in the UK. It provides practical...
Other data subject rights—issues in employmentFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the...
Striking out and unless orders in employment tribunal proceedingsThis Practice Note considers the law and rules applying to striking out a claim or a...
Latest Employment Precedents
Consultancy agreement—company and individual—pro-clientFORTHCOMING CHANGE:On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent,...
Response to data subject request—all rights—requesting identity information or confirming authority[Name of individual making request][Address of...
Policy—shared parental leave (adoption)1Introduction1.1The right to shared parental leave (SPL) allows eligible employees to choose how to share the...
Consultancy agreement—company and company—pro-clientFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent,...
Response to data subject request—right to restriction of processing—able to comply with request[Name of individual making request][Address of...
Latest Employment Q&As
Featured Employment content
Rates of SMP, SSP, Maternity Allowance etc to be increased in April 2024
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
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 notice
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissal
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
The duty of fidelity and fiduciary duties
The duty of fidelity and fiduciary dutiesAll employees are under a duty of fidelity to their employer. The duty of fidelity is also known as the duty...
TUPE—transfer of employees
TUPE—transfer of employeesThis Practice Note examines which employees transfer to the transferee under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of...
The early conciliation requirement
The early conciliation requirementstyle="width: 100%">Coronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and...
The term of trust and confidence
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...
Employment contract basic version
Employment contract basic versionContract of employment dated [insert date]Parties1[Name of Employer] [of [insert address] OR a company incorporated...
Garden leave and the right to work
Garden leave and the right to workIn broad terms, putting an employee on 'garden leave' means the employer sending the employee home on full pay...
Letter—secondment letter (employer—employee)
Letter—secondment letter (employer—employee)[to be typed on employer letterhead][Name of Employee][Address][Date]Dear [insert name of...
Pre-employment checks
Pre-employment checksFORTHCOMING CHANGE: Under section 193 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCSCA 2022) the time it takes for...
The unfair dismissal compensatory award
The unfair dismissal compensatory awardAn award of compensation for unfair dismissal generally consists of a basic award and a compensatory award. The...
Reinstatement
ReinstatementReinstatement is one of the orders that may be made by a tribunal under section 112 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996)...
Disclosure in employment tribunal proceedings
Disclosure in employment tribunal proceedingsDocuments of one kind or another will form a significant part of the evidence in many employment tribunal...
What should a collective grievance process look like?
Seventeenth edition of the Judicial College Guidelines published
The 17th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) has been published two years after the 16th edition. The JCG is usually the starting point...
Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)
Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)[To be typed on headed notepaper of...
Associated legal terms
Disciplinary
A disciplinary situation is a situation where breaches of rules or codes of behaviour or discipline are corrected or punished. Equally, where an employer's expectations about the way in which a job is to be performed, or its minimum standards, are not met, that may also give rise to a disciplinary situation in respect of the poor or inadequate performance that arises. Disciplinary situations therefore include misconduct or poor performance.
Injury to feelings award
An award of compensation made by an Employment Tribunal.
Redundancy
When an employee's role has diminished or disappeared such that it is no longer required by the employer.
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