Case of the week: Changes to terms and conditions

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  Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd [2010] IRLR 370 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Contracts of employment: Express variation provision allowed employer to impose new pay arrangements without consent

    Date:

    13 April 2010

    In Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd EAT/0221/09, the EAT held that the employer was entitled to change its employees' pay arrangements without their consent because it had reserved a clear contractual right to make unilateral variations to their terms and conditions of employment.

  • Bateman and others v Asda Stores Ltd

    Date:

    2 March 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer can reserve the right to vary employees' contracts unilaterally. Although varying a contractual term without notice or consultation can amount to a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence, it was not asserted that there had been such a breach in this case and the employer's unilateral variation of a pay regime was therefore valid.