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.
Thousands of Polish and Lithuanian workers are being exploited at work in the UK, a new report commissioned by the...
HR news on temporary workers, NHS redundancy payouts and Belfast City Airport workers’ threat to go on hunger strike, presented...
Trade unions have conceded that they might accept a qualifying period for temporary workers to gain full employment rights. Attempts...
Employers and unions have praised the “swift action” of the Gangmaster Licensing Authority (GLA) in revoking the licence of Baltic...
HR news including: final salary and defined benefit pension schemes set to make a comeback; and the Argos employee sacked for...
City law firm Freshfields has been hit by two age discrimination claims from former partners.The company is currently fighting an...
In a survey on flexible working by communications giant Orange, leading businesses have warned other companies offering informal flexible working...
The government has called on employers, unions and employees to pass on evidence of abuse of vulnerable workers to a...
Super-union Unite and the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) have concluded a national agreement on behalf of 3,000 workers in the...
McMenemy v Capita Business Services Limited - Scottish Court of Session
Almost half of UK employees would take information and data with them to their next job, new research has found....
A new recruit is refusing to fly to Chicago for a business trip because he has an intense flying phobia....
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has said it is continuing with “positive negotiations” with unions over the construction projects of...
Gordon Brown’s incoming government faces a key test this week when unions are expected to call for workers to be given...
Education secretary Alan Johnson is to consider introducing a nationally consistent pay and conditions framework for school support staff. The...
