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 clocks go back an hour at 2:00am on Sunday 27 October 2024. But what does this mean for night workers?
Government launches consultation on how reforms around zero-hours contracts should apply to agency workers.
Employment Rights Bill could cost business £7.4bn over 10 years as government publishes impact assessment and four consultations.
Liz Stevens, professional support lawyer at law firm Birketts, highlights the key takeaways from the long-awaited Employment Rights Bill
The government unveils its Next Steps to Make Work Pay alongside the publication of its Employment Rights Bill today.
Unite, one of the UK's largest trade unions, has said the government's Employment Rights Bill ‘stops short of making work pay.’
Employment lawyers give their initial reactions to the Employment Rights Bill after its full publication.
Labour’s reforms to workers’ rights - due this week - could take years to bed in and will not all be introduced at once, reports suggest.
As of the end of 2023, 542 businesses had transferred ownership to employees via EOTs, up from 428 the previous year
A number of questions and clarifications remain on what the upcoming Employment Rights Bill will mean in practice.
A group of court interpreters and translators has withdrawn services at Chelmsford Crown Court, protesting against freelance pay and working conditions.
Supreme Court unanimously rules that Tesco cannot fire and rehire distribution workers who receive ‘retained pay’ and reinstates injunction.
More than 12,500 drivers are bringing legal action against ride-hailing firm Bolt in a bid to be classified as workers rather than self-employed.
A new law which was expected to give people the right to request predictable working hours has been ditched.
The government's plans 'have the potential to make real inroads in the problem of insecurity at work, and would particularly benefit low-paid workers'.
