Varying contracts

New and updated

• TUPE: Improvements to contractual benefits before transfer were void

  Date:

  27 May 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• 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.