Contracts of employment

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• How to employ an individual on a casual or zero hours contract

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect that the right to a written statement of employment particulars is extended to workers and that the holiday pay reference period has changed for workers without normal working hours, effective from 6 April 2020.

• How to draft an employment contract

  Type:

  How to

  Revised to reflect changes in entitlement to, and information that must be included in, the written statement of employment particulars, effective from 6 April 2020.

• How to employ an individual on a fixed-term contract

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to a written statement of employment particulars, effective from 6 April 2020.

• How to decide whether or not to make use of employee-shareholder status

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect increases in the maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal and the capital gains tax annual allowance, both in force from 6 April 2020.

• April 2020: Employment law changes

  Date:

  3 April 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We round up our key content on April employment law changes.

• Constructive dismissal: Public "dressing down" entitled employee to resign

  Date:

  24 March 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  In MacLean v Menzies Distribution Ltd, an employment tribunal found that the employer's public "dressing-down" of an employee via email entitled the employee to resign and successfully claim constructive dismissal.

• Variation of contracts

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and relevance to varying contracts.

• Pay and the employment contract

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and relevance for pay.

• During the coronavirus outbreak, can an employer require its employees to take on different roles to cover absence?

  Type:

  FAQs

• April 2020 employment law changes: Eight tasks for HR

  Date:

  19 March 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Each April, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the latest round of amended employment laws and deadlines. As well as dealing with the ongoing impact of coronavirus (Covid-19), important issues for HR in April 2020 include changes to written statements of terms and conditions, the introduction of parental bereavement leave and pay, and changes to the law on calculating holiday pay for workers with irregular hours.