Employers are required to provide employees with an employment contract, a written statement of certain terms and conditions of their employment, within two months of the beginning of their employment.
Employer should always consult with the employee prior to changing an employee's contract of employment. Failure to follow a fair procedure when varying employees' terms and conditions of employment may result in an employee bringing a claim for breach of contract.
The government has been accused of breaking its promises to improve workers’ rights, as the employment bill was excluded from...
A ban on exclusivity contracts for low-paid workers and changes to data protection rules are likely to feature in this year’s Queen’s Speech.
What happens when an employee leaves and then claims constructive dismissal? This webinar looks at the risks faced by employers.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.
P&O Ferries has been forced to reinstate agency workers' original contracts after it allegedly attempted to push through a pay cut by asking workers to sign new ones.
More than 40,000 workers at Network Rail and 15 train operating companies are to be balloted for strike action in...
Are employees entitled to extra pay for working on bank holidays? What does an employer do if an employee refuses...
Union leaders have called on ministers to assume control of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services in the light of multiple safety failures.
P&O Ferries owner DP World has withdrawn from the leadership team of a freeport project because of political pressure stemming from the P&O Ferries redundancies.
Unions have reacted with fury at reports the long-awaited Employment Bill will not be announced during the Queen’s Speech in...
At the request of ministers the Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into the P&O Ferries redundancies.
The Nautilus Union: ‘P&O has gotten away with it. There’s no fine, there’s no legal action, there’s only words and hot air.’
The government will publish a new statutory code on ‘fire and rehire’ tactics in a bid to clamp down on unscrupulous employers.
Some facets of the government's response to the 800 job losses were ill-informed, a legal expert tells Personnel Today
Despite P&O Ferries' admission of law-breaking over the mass redundancy of 800 staff, many uncertainties remain over the laws shipping staff are subject to, MPs have heard.
