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.
Birmingham City Council has announced that it is reviewing all terms and conditions of employees as part of measures aimed...
Following some redundancies my business is functioning well. However, the process raised some problems with the terms in my employees’...
A number of banks and financial services firms are reportedly taken advantage of the current state of the sector by poaching key individuals...
Santander has reached an agreement with unions to protect the pay and conditions of more than 20,000 staff at Alliance...
An optician who paid his staff at rates up to 40% less than they were entitled to has become the...
Facts The claimant, Raphael Geys, was employed as a managing director for fixed income sales at bank Societe Generale. On...
Many employees don’t read their employment contracts properly, and one in 20 doesn’t read them at all, according to a new...
British Airways (BA) is involved in a long-running and bitter dispute with trade union Unite, representing cabin crew staff. The...
British Airways (BA) and Unite union will resume talks today as cabin crew strikes enter their fifth day.Willie Walsh, chief...
It is now a criminal offence to hold a person in servitude, so what does this mean for employers and...
Following months of talks with its unions to achieve cost savings, in October 2009, British Airways (BA) notified cabin crew...
Q I’m an HR manager for a printing company that has just taken on facilities management staff from the local...
Recruitment and legal experts have dashed hopes that there are grounds for a legal challenge to the Agency Worker Regulations.The Association...
Bateman v Asda Stores
FACTS Asda employed some store staff on a standard rate pay structure (the “old regime”) and...
What scope would a new Conservative government have to tamper with the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, due to come into...
