Contracts of employment

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Common contract terms

  Updated with a reference to Kau Media Group Ltd v Hart, which emphasised the importance of identifying relevant business interests when enforcing post-termination contracts.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Contracts of employment: key differences in Scotland and Northern Ireland

  Updated with the maximum amount of a week’s pay for calculating compensation for breach of the written particulars requirements, effective 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Types of contract

  Updated with changes to the Employment Rights Bill that will permit employers to enter into collective agreements to negate or modify the new rights around guaranteed hours and notice of shifts for low or zero hours workers.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Written statement of employment particulars

  Updated to reflect the increase in the maximum weekly amount for calculating the compensation payable for a breach of the requirement to provide a written statement, effective from 6 April 2025.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Example staff handbook structure

  Updated to include a Neonatal care leave policy (birth) and a Neonatal care leave policy (adoption) in the family-friendly leave section.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Express and implied contract terms

  Updated to reflect the establishment of an Adult Social Care Negotiating Body and a School Support Staff Negotiating Body under the Employment Rights Bill.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Reform of zero hours contracts

  Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers, which was published on 4 March 2025.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Reform of rules on dismissal and re-engagement

  Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on fire and rehire, which was published on 4 March 2025.

• Date:

  5 March 2025

  Type:

  News

  Agency workers to be included in zero-hours clampdown

  Agency workers will be included in the ban on 'exploitative' zero-hours contracts, as the government tables around 250 amendments to its landmark Employment Rights Bill today.

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Fixed-term workers

  Updated to include a reference to Moghaddam v Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Ors, in which the EAT summarised the legal requirements that need to be met to objectively justify extension of a fixed-term contract.