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: Employment lawyers are bracing for impact after the Employment Rights Bill received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, with no clear answers...
Share Incentives analysis: Elissavet Grout is a partner in the Tax Department at Travers Smith LLP and heads the firm's Incentives and Remuneration...
Pensions analysis: MPs have passed the Second Reading of the National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill which includes...
The Regulations bring into force on 29 December 2025 the whole of the Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024. The Act makes provision about paternity...
Employment analysis: An employment tribunal did not err in rejecting a claim by a barrister who holds gender critical beliefs that Stonewall, an LGBT...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
MoratoriumPart A1 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) provides for an process whereby directors of insolvent companies, or companies that are likely...
Taxation of general partnershipsThis Practice Note is about the tax treatment of general partnerships. Such a partnership is not taxable in its own...
DeedsUnder English law, legally binding agreements can be made orally, in writing or by deed.This Practice Notice considers the circumstances in which...
Artificial intelligence (AI) resource kitThis resource kit contains a list of the key practical guidance available across Lexis+® UK that deals with...
PSC register—the people with significant control regimeThe framework of the people with significant control (PSC) regime, which originally took effect...
Latest Employment Precedents
Letter—performance procedure (4): to employee notifying date of appeal hearing[To be typed on headed notepaper of employer][Insert date]Dear [insert...
Letter—changing terms (4): to employee warning of possibility of dismissal and re-engagement (individual consultation)[To be typed on employer’s...
Response to data subject request—right of access—unable to comply with request[insert name of individual making request][insert address of individual...
Letter—changing terms (1): to employee exercising contractual power to vary employment terms[To be typed on employer’s headed notepaper][Enter...
Letter—changing terms (2): to employee seeking agreement to change in terms (individual consultation)[To be typed on employer’s headed...
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
Gross Misconduct
A serious act of misconduct by the employee which is so bad that the employer cannot be expected to employ him any longer.
Marriage and civil partnership discrimination
The concept that a person cannot discriminate against another person on the ground that he or she is married or is a civil partner.
Trust and confidence
An implied term in the employment relationship that applies to both the employer and employee.
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