Category Archives: Contracts

Mobile workers decision is binding on employment tribunals

An employment tribunals case involving the meaning of the Working Time Directive at the European ...

New guidance on zero hours contracts

Acas has published some new guidance on zero hours contracts. This is the term for casual employment agreements where ...

Do you lose out on working hours when the clocks go back?

This weekend, the clocks go back an hour, giving most of us an extra hour ...

Long-term sick employee didn’t TUPE transfer

An employment tribunal has found that an employee absent on long-term sick did not transfer ...

Employment Tribunal solicitors braced for working time claims

You may have read in the news today of an EU ruling on working time that affects ...

Terms and conditions

We just advised an employee who was unhappy that his employer wanted to withdraw his ...

Zero-hours contracts

According to the Working Families association many on zero-hours contracts are unwilling to access existing ...

Restrictive covenants

This is a story about restrictive covenants, an area that trips up more employers than ...

On-call

If you have staff who need to be available to deal with work as it ...

Home-working

A report on home-working by the Trades Unions Congress tells us that the number of people ...