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
Law360: A female engineer has failed to convince an employment tribunal that defence supplier, Leonardo, allowing transgender individuals access to...
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal concerning vicarious liability by the Crown for alleged delicts (torts) committed by a Scottish...
Law360: The Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled that a gender-critical nurse was harassed by her employer in a dispute about use of a women's changing...
President of Employment Tribunals (England & Wales), Judge Barry Clarke has announced the launch of 18 explainer videos on YouTube aimed at improving...
Mark Lewis of HMCTS, the Service Manager for Employment Tribunals, has asked for the following message to be forwarded to members of the national user...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
Conduct of employment tribunal hearings—generalThe ET Rules classify all hearings as either:•a preliminary hearing (see Practice Note: Preliminary...
Submission of a claim to the employment tribunalThis Practice Note deals with what form a claim to the employment tribunal (ET) should take, and the...
Responding to a claim in the employment tribunalThis Practice Note explains the requirements for responding to an employment tribunal claim (ie...
Employment tribunal case managementThe overriding objectiveAt the heart of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure (ET Rules) is the 'overriding...
TUPE—effect of insolvencyThis Practice Note considers how the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006,...
Latest Employment Precedents
Letter from employee to company confirming agreement to salary sacrificeFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was...
Letter from company inviting employees to join salary sacrificeFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was announced that...
Letter from company to acknowledge salary sacrificeFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was announced that from April...
Executive service agreement (short form)This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Name of company], a company incorporated in England with registered...
Giving evidence in the employment tribunal—client guideThis Precedent provides general information about giving evidence in employment tribunal...
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
Equal Pay
Equal pay (now called equality of terms) protection aims to achieve equality between men and women in pay and other terms of employment where the work of an employee and an opposite sex comparator is equal, by inserting a sex equality clause into the employee’s contract to ensure parity.
Protected characteristics
The term used to describe the nine statutory forms of discrimination that are protected by employment discrimination legislation: Race; Sex; Disability; Religion or belief; Sexual Orientation; Age; Marriage and Civil Partnership; Gender Re-Assignment; Pregnancy and Maternity.
Sexual orientation discrimination
The concept that it is unlawful for an individual to discriminate against another on the grounds of his sexual orientation.
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