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 union Unite has called for immediate meetings with the new owners of London Gatwick Airport, to safeguard workers’ terms...
Hollywood bosses are inserting clauses into actors’ contracts to stop them leaking film information on social networking sites such as...
Employers who wish to avoid unintentionally giving contractors employee or worker status must pay attention to day-to-day working arrangements in...
The government has delayed the introduction of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) until October 2011 as part of efforts to...
The enforcement of the European Working Time Directive has led to patient deaths, and surgeons should be allowed to opt-out...
Postal unions have warned that they may launch a 10-day rolling strike across the country, which could begin as early...
Businesses must not panic after the government announced it would introduce further measures to restrict the movement of migrant workers...
Employers who want to cut the wages bill by means other than redundancy must take care that they don't breach rules on benefits such as bonuses. Lisa Mayhew explains.
The Prime Minister has called for a “claw-back” system on bankers’ bonuses if awards are not based on long-term success.Brown...
Employers have closed 87% of defined benefit pension schemes to new members and increasing numbers of organisations are also closing...
Fujitsu employees have shown they are willing to strike over their employer’s decision to close the company’s final salary pension...
RBS has cut retirement benefits for 60,000 staff in a bid to save £100m a year.The bank has proposed that...
Plans are being drawn up to slash public sector workers’ pension plans to deal with an expected £60bn shortfall in...
A recent high-profile case showed the pitfalls that can occur when employers dig into a applicant's past. So what can employers ask? Emilie Bennetts and Carolyn Haddon give the answers.
A pioneering staff-sharing scheme aimed at preventing redundancies in the video games industry could cause an administrative headache for HR...
