Written statement of terms and conditions of employment

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• What are written particulars and when should the employee receive them?

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs

• If a new employee is working only a few hours every week on a six-month contract does he or she really require a written statement of employment particulars?

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  FAQs

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

  Date:

  15 March 2001

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  Law reports

  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.

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

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  1 July 1999

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  Law reports

  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.

• Written particulars: Employer's duty to notify employee of job specification or description has direct effect

  Date:

  15 September 1998

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  Law reports

  Where a member state has incorrectly transposed into national law the obligation of an employer under the EC Written Particulars Directive to briefly specify or describe an employee's work in a notification of the essential aspects of the contract, public sector employees may rely on it against their employers directly before their national courts, holds the European Court of Justice in (1) Kampelmann and others v Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (2) Stadtwerke Witten GmbH v Schade (3) Haseley v Stadtwerke Altena GmbH.

• Mears v Safecar Security Ltd

  Date:

  1 May 1982

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  Law reports

  In Mears v Safecar Security Ltd [1982] IRLR 183 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, in determining an implied term, regard should be had to all the circumstances, including the way the contract had been operated in the past.