Written statement of terms and conditions of employment

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• Written statement of terms and conditions of employment - further information

  Type:

  Quick reference

  A table setting out the information that may be provided in the principal statement of terms and conditions of employment or further instalments.

• Lovett v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

  Date:

  31 December 2001

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• What are written particulars and when should the employee 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 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?

  Type:

  FAQs

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

  Date:

  15 March 2001

  Type:

  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

  Date:

  1 July 1999

  Type:

  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.