Contracts of employment

New and updated

• 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.

• Presidents Club scandal: Is there any value in non-disclosure agreements?

  Date:

  9 February 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Reports of sexual harassment at the recent Presidents Club charity dinner form part of a worrying trend of unwanted behaviour directed against women, writes David Israel. But the circumstances around the event - and efforts to keep it secret - have also put the efficacy of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in the spotlight.

• Restrictive covenants: Non-compete clause too wide to be enforceable

  Date:

  8 February 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Tillman v Egon Zehnder, the Court of Appeal held that a six-month non-compete clause that prevented the employee from being "concerned or interested in any business carried on in competition" after termination of employment was unenforceable as it would bar her from being a shareholder in a competing business.

• Consultation on increasing transparency in the labour market

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the recommendations in the "Taylor review of modern working practices" for achieving greater transparency and clarity between workers and employers in the labour market.

• Constructive dismissal: Suspension was breach of implied term of mutual trust and confidence

  Date:

  31 January 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Agoreyo v London Borough of Lambeth [2017] EWHC 2019 HC, the High Court held that a teacher was constructively dismissed when she resigned in response to a knee-jerk suspension. In the circumstances of the case, the suspension had been a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence entitling the employee to resign without notice.

• How gig economy compromises health and wellbeing of workers

  Date:

  30 January 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  How you're employed or hired can have a bearing on the way you're looked after by your employer, writes Tim Walsh.

• Bill looking to ban zero-hours contracts moves a step closer

  Date:

  10 January 2018

  Type:

  News

  A bill seeking to ban zero-hours contacts and bolster workers' rights is to come before parliament for a second reading next week.

• Cases on appeal

  Date:

  1 January 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Cases on appeal provides news on key case law developments that are expected.

• Zero hours workers subject to more sexual harassment

  Date:

  11 December 2017

  Type:

  News

  Two fifths of women and a fifth of men in the UK say they have experienced unwanted sexual behaviour at work, an in-depth poll for the BBC has found.