Varying contracts

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter to employee to authorise change to their pay date

  A model HR letter to an employee proposing to change their pay date.

• Type:

  FAQs

  When can an employer demote an employee lawfully?

• Date:

  31 July 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Varying employment contracts - what you need to know

  Employment lawyer Darren Newman guides us through the process of varying an employee's terms and conditions including the procedure for dismissing and re-engaging an employee, and how to deal with an avalanche of flexible working requests from employees who want to make their lockdown way of working permanent.

• Date:

  24 July 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Demotion during post-pandemic restructuring

  Demoting employees as part of a restructuring programme may offer a more favourable alternative to redundancies, but employers need to beware of the ramifications of making such contractual changes and to ensure the process followed is lawful. Paida Dube, employment law solicitor at DavidsonMorris, explains.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss change of place of work

  A model HR letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work. For example, your organisation's cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of certain work locations.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to employee confirming change of place of work

  A model HR letter to confirm a change of place of work with an employee. For example, your organisation's cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of certain work locations.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for your staff.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to employee confirming permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to confirm a move to permanent homeworking with an employee. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.

• Date:

  27 May 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  TUPE: Improvements to contractual benefits before transfer were void

  In Ferguson and others v Astrea Asset Management Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the transferor's substantial improvements to the employment contracts of senior employees shortly before the transfer were void under TUPE legislation and the EU abuse of law principle.

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Variation of contracts

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