Contracts of employment

New and updated

• Date:

  25 August 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Should you enforce restrictive covenants during a pandemic?

  Non-compete clauses and other restrictive covenants are often used to prevent an employee from taking an organisation's commercial secrets to a competitor when they leave. But is it fair to enforce them when job opportunities are limited? Imogen Finnegan, senior consultant at Bellevue Law, weighs up the pros and cons.

• Date:

  31 July 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Varying employment contracts - what you need to know

  Employment lawyer Darren Newman guides us through the process of varying an employee's terms and conditions including the procedure for dismissing and re-engaging an employee, and how to deal with an avalanche of flexible working requests from employees who want to make their lockdown way of working permanent.

• Date:

  24 July 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Demotion during post-pandemic restructuring

  Demoting employees as part of a restructuring programme may offer a more favourable alternative to redundancies, but employers need to beware of the ramifications of making such contractual changes and to ensure the process followed is lawful. Paida Dube, employment law solicitor at DavidsonMorris, explains.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss change of place of work

  A model HR letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work. For example, your organisation's cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of certain work locations.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to employee confirming change of place of work

  A model HR letter to confirm a change of place of work with an employee. For example, your organisation's cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of certain work locations.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for your staff.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to employee confirming permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to confirm a move to permanent homeworking with an employee. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.

• Date:

  27 May 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  TUPE: Improvements to contractual benefits before transfer were void

  In Ferguson and others v Astrea Asset Management Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the transferor's substantial improvements to the employment contracts of senior employees shortly before the transfer were void under TUPE legislation and the EU abuse of law principle.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer extend a fixed-term contract that comes to an end while the employee is furloughed?

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Written statement of terms and conditions of employment - the principal statement

  Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to and the information that must be provided in written statements, effective from 6 April 2020.