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.
Union body urges UK employers to follow example of Japanese prime minister.
Company mobile phone policies should explicitly ban using them for betting, voting and downloading music or games, lobby group warns
Someone employed on successive fixed-term contracts will now be entitled to permanent employment.
The stripped-down high jinks of civil servants at the Rural Standards Agency are a wake-up call to all employers who...
How not to change terms of employment
Business gets opportunity to air views on timing of introduction of compulsory bank holidays.
How do you manage the not unlikely event that staff will want to watch the football World Cup on TV?
Contract terms for sickness absence and part-time working requests.
The controversial French youth labour law, which has sparked strikes and protests across the country, breaks European age discrimination legislation, legal experts have confirmed.
The practice of paying rolled-up holiday pay will have to stop now that the European Court of Justice has ruled that it contravenes the Working Time Directive. The ruling is expected to harm temporary workers.
Which piece of employment legislation has caused you the most headaches in 2005? Here HR practitioners from different sectors share their views. Compiled by Phil Boucher
McDonald's has begun a trial of a 'family contract', which enables two people from the same family working in the same restaurant to cover each other's shifts with no prior notice.
The DTI is inviting comments from employers, unions and religious groups in a review of Sunday trading laws.
Refusal to sign unreasonable restrictive covenant is not a fair reason for dismissal
More than three-quarters of organisations use compromise agreements to avoid potential employment tribunals, according to a survey by IRS Employment...
