Garden leave

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• Common contract terms

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  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, in which the Court of Appeal considered the enforceability of a post-termination restraint clause.

• Include a garden leave clause in an employment contract

  Type:

  Tasks

• Place an employee who has resigned on garden leave

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  Tasks

• Garden leave

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• What is garden leave?

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  FAQs

• What can the employer do where a departing employee breaches a garden leave clause?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Garden leave contract clause

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  Policies and documents

  A contract clause for circumstances when an employer wishes to be able to place an employee on garden leave during the notice period following either the employee's resignation or a dismissal with notice.

• Letter responding to an employee's resignation requiring a period of garden leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to inform an employee who has resigned that he or she is to be placed on garden leave throughout the notice period.

• Letter informing a competitor of the contractual obligations of an employee on garden leave

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• How to manage garden leave

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on managing garden leave during an employee's notice period; including when contractual garden leave clauses are enforceable.