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- Date:
- 18 June 2025
- Type:
- News
Employers and agencies who hire summer staff must remember their pension obligations, the regulator has warned.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect the Department of the Economy's response to the Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill consultation relating to proposed reforms to zero-hours contracts, written employment terms and protections against “fire and rehire” practices in Northern Ireland.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide illustrates when a contract of employment can be terminated by mutual consent, whereby the employer and employee come to a mutual agreement to end the employment relationship or frustrated, whereby an unforeseen event - typically the employee's prolonged ill health, the employee's death, or a lengthy imprisonment - disrupts the performance of the contract of employment.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with a reference to the code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement as it applies to the expiry of fixed-term contracts.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with reference to Brake Bros Ltd v Hudek, which dealt with whether to imply a term that would entitle a worker to additional payment for hours worked beyond the contracted weekly hours.
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- Date:
- 15 May 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The policy intent behind the measures relating to zero and low hours workers in the Employment Rights Bill is to end one-sided flexibility and "exploitative zero hours contracts". This does not mean that there will be an outright ban on such contracts. What it does mean is that there will now be a legislative framework, the intention behind which is to deliver a better level of predictability and security for workers. Barrister and mediator Alison Frazer looks at the practical implications for HR.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect changes in entitlement to and the information that must be provided in written statements, effective from 6 April 2020.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
Updated to include a Neonatal care leave policy (birth) and a Neonatal care leave policy (adoption) in the family-friendly leave section.