Contracts of employment

New and updated

• Letter informing union or employee representatives of proposed variation to contracts of employment

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Risk assessing relationships: Time to review employment contracts

  Date:

  11 May 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  With major changes to employment status likely on the horizon and a growing proportion of the workforce operating within the gig economy, employers must ensure that they risk assess their relationships sooner rather than later. Michael Hibbs explains.

• Hermes "coerced" staff into misleading HMRC, manager claims

  Date:

  4 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  HM Revenue and Customs is reportedly investigating allegations that delivery company Hermes trained managers to mislead tax officials about how it treated workers.

• Variation of contract: Working without protest did not mean acceptance

  Date:

  2 May 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Abrahall and others v Nottingham City Council and another, the Court of Appeal held that a number of employees who had continued to work without protest throughout a two-year pay freeze had not agreed to a variation of their contracts of employment.

• Notice and pay in lieu of notice

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the latest guidance from HM Revenue and Customs on the taxation of payments in lieu of notice.

• Zero hours contracts increase by 100,000 as workers more aware

  Date:

  23 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  The number of people on zero hour contracts in the UK increased by around 100,000 last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.

• MPs urge ministers to speed up gig economy measures

  Date:

  20 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  MPs have accused the Government of being too slow to act on recommendations that would protect the rights of gig economy workers and people on zero-hour contracts.

• Written statement of employment particulars

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the increase in the maximum compensation for breach of the written particulars requirements, effective from 6 April 2018.

• Fixed-term employee's remuneration contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include new rates of the national minimum wage, effective from 1 April 2018.

• Contract of employment for senior employees

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.