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.
As unions prepare to stage a wave of strikes this year, are more employers likely to turn to the courts to secure injunctions against industrial action? Kat Baker finds out.
Recent news stories involving footballers Ashley Cole and John Terry (pictured below) have raised the issue of when and to...
British Airways has been warned that it could face legal action if it tries to remove the travel perks of...
For a limited time only, Personnel Today Plus members can access a full model policy on equal opportunities which takes...
Staff at a Humberside car company have won an unfair dismissal case, after objecting to the introduction of a “zero...
Corus steel-workers in Scunthorpe are to receive bumper bonus payments this month, after lawyers for the union launched a case...
Q Icy conditions have made the high street our store is on practically impossible to commute down. The cold weather...
The current cold snap looks set to last a little longer. As public transport struggles to cope, road conditions worsen and schools remain closed, employers are counting the cost of lost time, order and opportunities as employees arrive late for work, or not at all. So how can employers mitigate the impact of this inclement weather? Anna MacGregor, senior solicitor at Brodies LLP, offers some advice.
One route that employers have chosen to take in recent times is to change terms and conditions rather than make redundancies. Gagandeep Prasad and Jo Wort analyse what this means in practice.
Blacklisting trade union members will be banned under new government regulations. The move follows evidence that a number of employers...
Social workers should need a licence to practise, the social work task force set up by the government after the...
British Airways (BA) workers have “unwillingly” agreed to work new schedules with reduced staffing pending a full High Court hearing.The...
Organisations should ask themselves 10 questions to evaluate how vulnerable they may be to an equal pay claim, according to...
British Airways cabin crew could strike over Christmas, their union has warned.Representatives of BA’s 14,000 cabin crew are meeting Unite...
More than 20% of the working population don’t know about their employment rights, a government report will reveal today.The Fair...
