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 Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published the outcome of the consultation on the development of a new Industrial Strategy, issued as...
This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) a First-tier Tax Tribunal decision that individual match engagements between PGMOL and...
The Tribunal Procedure Committee (TPC) has launched a consultation on proposed amendments to costs and expenses rules in the First-tier Tribunal,...
The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has launched an inquiry into disabled workers' and jobseekers' access to flexible working arrangements across...
This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) two draft statutory instruments relating to the increase in employment tribunal time limits...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
This Practice Note discusses the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)’s rules on remuneration paid by banks, building societies and systemically...
This Practice Note discusses the EU remuneration provisions under the Capital Requirements Directive 2013/36/EU (EU CRD IV) and Regulation (EU)...
This Practice Note examines the national minimum wage (NMW) and the national living wage (NLW). It also notes the ‘real living wage’, set by the...
This Practice Note examines what is meant by gross misconduct in the context of wrongful dismissal ie summary dismissal or termination on short notice...
This Practice Note considers when an employment tribunal may order a party to pay a deposit as a condition of continuing in proceedings.Where some or...
Latest Employment Precedents
This Deed of retirement is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[insert name of retiring member] of [insert address] (Retiring...
1Introduction1.1Tax evasion is a major issue in world trade, despite the many dedicated efforts to prevent it.1.2Tax evasion is very damaging to the...
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[NAME OF COMPANY], a company incorporated in England with registered number [number] whose registered office...
This reaffirmation Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert Employer’s name] whose registered office is at [insert Employer’s address],...
[insert date of letter]To: [insert name of employee]From: [insert name of person in charge of salary sacrifice arrangements and their position within...
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
COT 3 settlement agreement
An agreement between an employer and employee which settles the employee's employment law claims against the employer.
Part-time worker
A category of worker whose hours and days of work are less than a full time worker.
Wages
A statutory definition that establishes what constitutes the 'wages' of an employee for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
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