Fixed-term contracts

New and updated

• Types of contract

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to take into account the Government's announcement in its Good work plan, on the right to request a stable contract.

• 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 2019.

• Fixed-term employee's holiday entitlement contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts and others, in which the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the calculation of holiday pay should include voluntary overtime.

• Fixed-term workers

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  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.

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

  Type:

  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.

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

  Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

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

  Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

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

  Type:

  Tasks

• Contract clause stating a fixed-term contract is for a fixed duration

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model contract clause stating that a contract is for a fixed duration.

• Contract clause stating a fixed-term contract is for a particular task

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model contract clause stating that a fixed-term contract is for a particular task.