Written statement of terms and conditions of employment

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Does it matter if an employee's written statement of terms and conditions of employment is out of date?

• Date:

  31 December 2001

  Type:

  Law reports

  Lovett v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

  In Lovett v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council [2001] EWCA Civ 12 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a clause that had been incorporated into an employee's written statement of employment particulars did not form part of his contract of employment because he had not agreed to it.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What are written particulars and when should the worker receive them?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should the wage terms be set down in a contract of employment?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should terms on hours of work be set out in a contract of employment?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What terms relating to holiday must be included in the written statement of particulars?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is an employer legally obliged to put the contract of employment in writing?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If a new worker is working only a few hours every week on a six-month contract do they really require a written statement of employment particulars?

• Date:

  15 March 2001

  Type:

  Law reports

  Employment particulars: Employer had to notify employee of obligation to work overtime

  In Lange v Georg Schünemann GmbH, the ECJ rules that an employee's obligation to work overtime whenever requested to do so by his employer was an essential element of the contract that had to be notified to him in writing.

• Date:

  1 July 1999

  Type:

  Law reports

  Employment particulars: Particulars must be determined by tribunal as at date of employee's reference

  An employment tribunal's determination as to what particulars ought to have been included or referred to in an employee's written statement of employment particulars had to be made with regard to the position at the date of the employee's reference to the tribunal, holds the EAT in Railcare Ltd v Cook.