Contracts of employment

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• Following a TUPE transfer, can the transferee change employees' terms and conditions that were incorporated from a collective agreement prior to the transfer?

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  FAQs

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

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  How to

  Practical guidance on employing an individual on a fixed-term contract, including the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002; recruiting temporary workers; break clauses; successive fixed-term contracts; and expiry of the fixed-term contract.

• Case round-up

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  1 December 2013

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  Law reports

  Colin Makin, Krishna Santra, Linda Quinn and Sandra Martins are senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues is an associate at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Letter reminding an employee to sign and return his or her written statement of terms and conditions of employment

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  Policies and documents

  A model letter reminding an employee to sign and return his or her written statement of terms and conditions of employment.

• Letter to accompany an employee's written statement of terms and conditions of employment

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  Policies and documents

  A model letter sending an employee his or her written statement of terms and conditions of employment.

• Case of the week: Former employee ordered to give employer log-in details of LinkedIn account she set up

  Date:

  26 September 2013

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  Law reports

  In DLA Piper's case of the week, Whitmar Publications Ltd v Gamage and others, the High Court required a former employee to hand over the details of a LinkedIn account that she had established in the course of her employment, but that she had also used for personal purposes.

• How to draft an employment contract

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  How to

  Practical guidance on drafting an employment contract, including the written statement of particulars; formation of the contract; variation clauses; mobility clauses; collective agreements; probationary periods; confidentiality clauses; garden leave clauses; and post-termination restrictions.

• What employment rights are forfeited by an individual who agrees to employee-shareholder status?

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  FAQs

• What requirements must be met for an individual to have employee-shareholder status?

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  FAQs

• Do employees have protection if they refuse to agree to employee-shareholder status?

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  FAQs