Varying contracts

New and updated

• Variation of contracts

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and relevance to varying contracts.

• How to avoid falling foul of the law on harmonising contractual terms and conditions following a TUPE transfer

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include information on Tabberer and others v Mears Ltd, on whether or not a variation of contract was by reason of the transfer.

• Letter to union or employee representatives starting consultation on proposed variation in contractual terms and conditions

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter inviting an employee to an individual consultation meeting to discuss varying their contract of employment

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Procedure on varying terms and conditions

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter to affected employees inviting them to elect representatives for collective consultation purposes where a proposal to vary contractual terms and conditions may result in "redundancies"

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter informing union or employee representatives of proposed variation to contracts of employment

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Variation of contract: Working without protest did not mean acceptance

  Date:

  2 May 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Abrahall and others v Nottingham City Council and another, the Court of Appeal held that a number of employees who had continued to work without protest throughout a two-year pay freeze had not agreed to a variation of their contracts of employment.

• Government's approach to junior doctors' new contracts is legal, says High Court

  Date:

  29 September 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  The High Court has ruled that the manner in which the Government is introducing new contracts of employment for junior doctors is legal.

• Can an employer change the terms and conditions of transferred employees if a certain amount of time has passed since the TUPE transfer?

  Type:

  FAQs