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- Date:
- 1 April 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers varying contracts of employment.
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- Date:
- 29 January 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Regent Security Services Ltd v Power [2007] EWCA Civ 1188 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee transferred under the 1981 TUPE Regulations could choose to enforce new, more beneficial terms agreed with the transferee, even where the variation was connected with the transfer.
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- Date:
- 4 September 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Wetherill & Ors v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 599 the Court of Appeal held that a local authority was entitled to vary a car allowance scheme unilaterally, but was in breach of contract by failing to provide adequate transitional protection for affected employees.
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- Type:
- How to
Practical guidance on writing and amending an employee handbook, including incorporation into the employment contract and varying the contract.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to seek an employee's express agreement to change a term in their contract of employment, where there is no contractual right to make that change.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to record an employee's agreement to change one or more of the terms in their contract of employment.
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- Date:
- 31 December 2004
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Candler v ICL Systems Services IDS Brief 562 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, although scheduled telephone standby duties could be terminated by giving four weeks' notice, the only power to vary them was the general power to vary, which required 26 weeks' notice.
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- Date:
- 2 July 2004
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Graham, the EAT holds that a "local agreement", for the purposes of the National Joint Council for Local Government Employees' collective bargaining agreement, should be construed as meaning either an agreement by all the locally recognised trade unions, or an agreement that has been determined by a process agreed by all the recognised unions.
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- Date:
- 1 January 2004
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Martin and others v South Bank University [2004] IRLR 74 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that early retirement benefits should be paid for by a new employer after a transfer of undertakings.