Job offers

New and updated

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage job offers

  Practical guidance on the steps that employers should take following selection in recruitment, such as how and when to make the job offer, carrying out background checks and communicating with the new starter.

• Date:

  6 April 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Recruitment challenges during the pandemic

  What should employers do if they have new hires due to start work during the current crisis? Jo Faragher asks HR professionals and recruitment specialists for their advice.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Making job offers

  Updated to reflect the publication of guidance by the ICO in relation to information about workers' health.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter making formal offer of employment

  A model confirmation of offer/formal offer of employment/appointment letter for use once all checks have been completed.

• Type:

  Training

  Making a job offer - line manager training

  Line manager training resource providing a summary of the law and good practice in relation to making job offers, including guidance on making conditional offers, criminal record checks, employing foreign nationals, medical examinations and terms and conditions of employment.

• Date:

  2 August 2018

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination arising from disability: Withdrawal of job offer after reference highlighting absences

  In South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust v Lee and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a decision to withdraw a job offer that was at least partially influenced by a reference that focused on the applicant's sickness absence levels was discriminatory.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter withdrawing conditional offer of employment

  A model letter to retract a conditional offer of employment if the prospective employee subsequently fails to fulfil any of the conditions.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter making conditional offer of employment

  A model letter to confirm an intention to employ an individual on the proviso that they meet certain requirements.

• Date:

  17 August 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunal awards damages of one month's salary where job offer withdrawn

  An employment tribunal has awarded a claimant damages for breach of contract where he verbally accepted a job offer made by the employment agency acting for the employer, and the employer subsequently withdrew the offer.

• Date:

  11 February 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Negative verbal reference and job offer withdrawal were discrimination arising from disability

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that both the claimant's former and prospective employers committed discrimination arising from disability when a negative verbal reference resulted in a job offer being withdrawn.