Staff handbooks

New and updated

• Express and implied contract terms

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to Upton-Hansen Architects Ltd v Gyftaki, concerning suspension and the implied term of trust and confidence.

• High Court ruling on use of work computer for personal emails

  Date:

  25 August 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The High Court has held that an employee had no reasonable expectation of privacy when he used his employer's computer system to create,and transmit, personal email correspondence in the course of his employment.

• Amend a staff handbook

  Type:

  Tasks

• Create a staff handbook

  Type:

  Tasks

• Introduction to a staff handbook

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model statement at the beginning of a staff handbook to cover administrative issues such as how your organisation will communicate changes to the handbook to staff.

• Non-contractual handbook's enhanced sick pay provisions were incorporated into contract

  Date:

  4 May 2011

  Type:

  Law reports

  This case is a good example of how the terms of a staff handbook that is stated to be non-contractual can still be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment.

• Example staff handbook structure for small businesses

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  An example staff handbook structure for small businesses and accompanying guidance.

• Contracts of employment: Enhanced redundancy payment provision in staff handbook had contractual effect

  Date:

  3 April 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Keeley v Fosroc International Ltd [2006] IRLR 961, the Court of Appeal held that a provision for enhanced redundancy payments set out in a staff handbook that was incorporated into the employment contract constituted an express term of the individual contract of employment, thus conferring a contractual right to the payment.

• How to write and amend an employee handbook

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on writing and amending an employee handbook, including incorporation into the employment contract and varying the contract.

• Contracts of employment: Dismissal for "good cause" terminates long-term sickness benefits

  Date:

  10 January 2003

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employee on long-term sick leave who failed to maintain communication with his employer regarding his continued absence, and who had not provided continuous medical certificates, was lawfully dismissed so as to terminate any entitlement to benefits under the employer's permanent health insurance scheme, the Court of Appeal holds in Briscoe v Lubrizol Ltd.