Contracts of employment

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• Type:

  FAQs

  What terms relating to holiday must be included in the written statement of particulars?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How much mobility can be built into a contract?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How can employers prevent employees misusing confidential information?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What happens if a contract is out of date, or does not reflect the intention of the employer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If a term in a contract is discretionary or flexible, does this mean that the employer can change it?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What mechanisms are there to allow the employer to change the terms of a contract?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is there any way to change the terms of an employee's contract if there is no provision for the change in the contract?

• Date:

  1 May 2001

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Damages: No common law remedy for financial loss flowing from manner of dismissal

  There is no common law contractual remedy for financial or other loss allegedly flowing from the manner or circumstances of an employee's dismissal, holds the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd.

• Type:

  FAQs

  For the purposes of summary dismissal, how does an employer legally define a serious breach of contract?

• Date:

  1 November 2000

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Breach of contract: Disciplinary suspension was in breach of implied term of trust and confidence

  The suspension of a care worker in a children's home by her local authority employer, pending the outcome of an investigation into an allegation of child sexual abuse, amounted to a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence in her contract of employment, holds the Court of Appeal in Gogay v Hertfordshire County Council.