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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
Topics We Cover
Latest Employment News
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has published updated guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), replacing its December 2023 guidance....
The Employment Tribunal office at Alexandra House in Manchester has been closed temporarily while HMCTS undertakes necessary building checks. With the...
Information Law analysis: On 28 March 2025 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its guidance on anonymisation and pseudonymisation...
Law360: A Royal Navy reservist can bring a claim that he was mistreated for seeking equal pay with full-time sailors in the service, as a tribunal...
The Home Office has made a number of changes to the various Workers and Temporary Workers Sponsor Guidance documents, on 9 April 2025. The...
Latest Employment Practice Notes
Springboard injunctions in employee competition claimsThis Practice Note considers the nature and scope of interim ‘springboard’ injunctions, used to...
How employment income is taxed—non-cash earnings or benefitsIn addition to cash earnings, such as wages or salaries, many reward packages include...
Reference to Central Arbitration CommitteeThis Practice Note examines the statutory procedure through which trade unions may seek compulsory...
Employment claims in Scottish civil courtsScottish civil courts, like their counterparts in England and Wales, can and do decide certain employment...
The territorial scope of statutory employment rightsThis Practice Note examines the territorial application, scope or reach of relevant applicable or...
Latest Employment Precedents
Executive service agreementThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Name of company], a company incorporated in England with registered number...
Policy—tax evasion facilitation prevention1Introduction1.1Tax evasion is a major issue in world trade, despite the many dedicated efforts to prevent...
Secondment agreement (employer—host)This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[name of employer] a company incorporated and registered in [England and...
Consultancy agreement—individual and company—pro-consultantThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Name of Company], a company incorporated in...
Consultancy agreement—company and individual—pro-client (short form)[ON HEADED NOTEPAPER OF CLIENT COMPANY][Insert consultant’s name][Insert...
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...
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
Compromise agreement
An agreement between an employer and employee which settles the employee's employment law claims against the employer, particularly any statutory claims. This sort of agreement was known as a compromise agreement until 29 July 2013 when it was renamed as a 'settlement agreement' by s 23 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.
Detriment
Where an employee has suffered from an unlawful act (or detriment) by the actions of the employer.
Effective date of termination
The effective date of termination is the date on which: • the notice expires where the contract is terminated by notice, whether given by employer or employee • the termination takes effect where the contract is terminated by the employer without notice (ie summary dismissal) • the termination takes effect where the contract is a limited-term contract which terminates by virtue of the happening of a limiting event
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