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We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten into the precious hours in your working day.
Starting employment
We cover recruitment, employment contracts, policies, handbooks and more. It’s not just contracts though. Other documents may regulate the employment relationship, such as policies, procedures and collective agreements.
Managing the employment relationship
Sickness and absence is a common occurrence in an employment relationship that brings up multiple legal issues. We offer a range of resources with practical guidance and legal considerations.
TUPE, outsourcing, share. and asset purchases
TUPE 2006 will likely apply when acquiring businesses through an asset purchase. You’ll need to consider due diligence, consultation obligations, employees and liabilities transferred to the buyer.
Stay on top of changes
We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten
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Latest Employment News
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published its Rapid Review into the Graduate route, together with a letter to the Home Secretary from the...
The Treasury Committee has published the responses by HM Treasury, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
The below data shows the number of Home Office-approved employer sponsors, according to visa route, as listed on the Home Office’s register of...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced it will extend the Seasonal Worker visa route from 2025 to 2029. The...
Public Law analysis: The Administrative Court rejected a Muslim pupil’s judicial review challenging the policy of a school, with a strong secular...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
Directors’ duties: companies in financial difficultiesDirectors of companies which become, or are likely to become, insolvent face additional...
Umbrella companies—tax implicationsFORTHCOMING CHANGE: It was confirmed at Tax Administration and Maintenance Day (TAMD) on 18 April 2024 that HMRC...
Menopause issues in the workplaceThis Practice Note examines the legal and practical issues for an employer to consider in relation to the...
Taxation of payments in lieu of notice (PILONs) and post-employment notice pay (PENP)The tax treatment of payments in lieu of notice (PILONs)...
Taxation of termination payments—settlement agreementsWhere an employee has potential claims against the employer under the Employment Rights Act 1996...
Latest Employment Precedents
Service Occupancy—EnglandDate [date]Parties1[name of Employer] [of OR incorporated in England and Wales with company registration number [number]...
Employment contract basic versionContract of employment dated [insert date]Parties1[Name of Employer] [of [insert address] OR a company incorporated...
IR35—the large and public client off-payroll regime—status determination statement (SDS)[To be set out on client’s headed notepaper or with client’s...
IR35—the large and public client off-payroll regime—status determination disagreement process[To be set out on client’s headed notepaper or with...
Records retention schedule (employment)STOP PRESS: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published draft guidance on keeping employment...
Latest Employment Q&As
Featured Employment content
The term of trust and confidence
The term of trust and confidenceThis Practice Note analyses the term or duty of mutual trust and confidence (in a fiduciary sense) implied or imposed...
Where an employee works compressed hours, ie the same number of hours as a ‘normal’ full-time employee over fewer days, how should the employer calculate holiday entitlement, and how should the employer treat bank holidays if they fall on a day when the ‘compressed hours’ employee does not usually work?
Letter—resignation from directorship
Letter—resignation from directorshipThe [Secretary OR Directors][insert company name][insert company address][Insert date]Dear [[insert name] OR...
Liability of employers for the acts of their employees and others
Liability of employers for the acts of their employees and othersThis Practice Note considers the test for an employer’s vicarious liability in tort,...
Rates of SMP, SSP, Maternity Allowance etc to be increased in April 2022
Employment analysis: According to a Written Statement to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and proposals set out in a...
Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)
Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)The right to notice means a right for the employee to remain in employment for the period of notice, not simply to be...
Unfair dismissal remedies—general
Unfair dismissal remedies—generalstyle="width: 100%">Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay)...
Application—postponement or adjournment of hearing
Application—postponement or adjournment of hearing[Insert date][Insert] Employment Tribunal[Insert address]To the [insert] Employment Tribunal[Insert...
Letter—secondment letter (employer—employee)
Letter—secondment letter (employer—employee)[to be typed on employer letterhead][Name of Employee][Address][Date]Dear [insert name of...
Definition of redundancy
Definition of redundancyThis Practice Note examines the two different statutory definitions of 'redundancy'.The first is found in the Employment...
Sick pay
Sick payThis Practice Note considers contractual sick pay (sometimes known as occupational sick pay) and entitlement to statutory sick pay (SSP) under...
Pre-employment checks
Pre-employment checksFORTHCOMING CHANGE: Under section 193 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCSCA 2022) the time it takes for...
Definition of dismissal in unfair dismissal
Definition of dismissal in unfair dismissalTo succeed in a claim of unfair dismissal, the claimant must establish that they were dismissed by the...
Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)
Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)[To be typed on headed notepaper of...
Letter—from employer to employee regarding hybrid working arrangements
Letter—from employer to employee regarding hybrid working arrangements[To be typed on headed notepaper of employer][Date]Dear [insert name of...
What happens to pension contributions when an employee is on Statutory Sick Pay?
The unfair dismissal compensatory award
The unfair dismissal compensatory awardAn award of compensation for unfair dismissal generally consists of a basic award and a compensatory award. The...
Does an employee who has taken unpaid leave accrue holiday entitlement during that period; and do periods of unpaid leave or long-term sickness absence affect the amount of holiday pay an employee should receive?
Associated legal terms
Continuous employment
The employee's period of continuous employment with his employer.
Pension benefit
A pension benefit provided by the employer to the employee.
Zero hours contract
A zero hours contract is one where the employer is not obliged to offer any hours and the worker is not obliged to accept any hours.
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