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.
Trials of reduced working hours have led to new employment contracts for many people in Iceland.
More than 100 staff at a Clarks warehouse in Somerset are considering strike action over plans to ‘fire and rehire’ them on less favourable terms and conditions.
The Home Office has announced a delay in the resumption of physical right-to-work checks until 1 September.
Zero hours contracts are failing to provide more flexibility to workers and are instead trapping people in low pay and insecure work.
Acas publishes further guidance around negotiating changes to staff contracts in response to concerns about ‘fire and rehire’ practices.
Low-paid workers are at greatest risk of losing their jobs when the government’s furlough scheme closes, new research has found.
MPs are to consider allegations over work practices at the delivery giant after couriers alleged they had been told they'd lose delivery rounds unless they accept lower pay.
What's next for workers' rights, given the omission of the Employment Bill from the government's legislative agenda?
Food delivery and courier companies in Spain now three months to employ drivers as staff under a landmark new law.
A letter signed by unions and 140 MPs and Lords urges the government to use next week's Queen's Speech to announce legislation banning 'fire and rehire' tactics.
CIPD analysis of Labour Force Survey data shows a decline in the use of part-time working, flexi-time and annualised hours.
Analysis by the Social Market Foundation finds low-income workers with shares in the firm they work for can have almost £11,000 more in assets.
Dublin's binary approach to the gig economy has created a zero-sum game for platform operators and contractors. It's time for a rethink.
Matthew Taylor believes that aligning the systems for employment status and tax would help prevent worker exploitation.
Addison Lee drivers are workers, not self-employed, and are entitled to the national minimum wage and holiday pay, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.
