Expiry of fixed-term contracts

New and updated

• Date:

  25 May 2022

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at five recent cases in which employers have been found to have discriminated against employees who were pregnant or on maternity leave.

• Type:

  How to

  How to employ an individual on a fixed-term contract

  Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to a written statement of employment particulars, effective from 6 April 2020.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Forms of termination

  Updated to include information on Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd, in which the Court of Appeal considered if a successful appeal revives the employment contract.

• Date:

  26 January 2018

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Fairness of dismissal not affected by compliance with Fixed-term Employees Regulations

  In Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust v Drzymala, the Employment Appeal Tribunal considered the fairness of an employee's dismissal by her employer's decision not to renew her fixed-term contract, including the effect of the employer's compliance with the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where the contract of a fixed-term employee who is a reservist is due to terminate while they are mobilised, does the employer have any obligation to re-employ them at the end of the period of mobilisation?

• Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  NHS trust's non-renewal of anaesthetist's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was open to an NHS trust to decide not to renew a consultant anaesthetist's fixed-term contract because it had recruited a number of permanent anaesthetists to take on the work.

• Date:

  28 May 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  University's non-renewal of tutor's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Deal with a fixed-term contract that is coming to an end

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee confirming expiry of fixed-term contract

  A model letter dismissing an employee working under a fixed-term contract on the ground that the term of the contract is about to expire.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Duration of fixed term contract clause (lasts for specific term)

  A model contract clause stating that a contract is for a fixed duration.