Fixed-term contracts

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Letter offering to extend furloughed employee's fixed-term contract

  Updated to set out upcoming changes to the scheme, including the introduction of "flexible furloughing" from July and gradual winding down of the scheme in August, September and October.

• Type:

  FAQs

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

• Type:

  How to

  How to employ an individual on a fixed-term contract

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

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Types of contract

  Updated to reflect the Government's announcement in the Queen's speech, on the right to request a more predictable contract.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Fixed-term employee's holiday entitlement contract clause

  Updated to include information on East of England Ambulance Trust v Flowers, in which the Court of Appeal held that the calculation of holiday pay should include voluntary overtime.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Fixed-term employee's remuneration contract clause

  Updated to include new rates of the national minimum wage, effective from 1 April 2019.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Fixed-term workers

  Updated to include information on López v Servicio Madrileño de Salud (Comunidad de Madrid), an ECJ decision relating to justification for successive renewals of a fixed-term contract.

• Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  NHS trust's non-renewal of anaesthetist's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was open to an NHS trust to decide not to renew a consultant anaesthetist's fixed-term contract because it had recruited a number of permanent anaesthetists to take on the work.

• Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  University's non-renewal of tutor's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Deal with a fixed-term contract that is coming to an end