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- Date:
- 11 December 2025
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- Commentary and insights
Multinational organisations are constantly in need of highly skilled staff and may consider fixed-term contracts as a strategic and flexible tool when hiring in a new market. Depending on the country at hand, fixed-term contracts may be a popular choice or an exceptional resource. But are they the right choice for your organisation?
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide sets out the differences between the law on fixed-term workers in Scotland compared with the rest of Great Britain (England and Wales).
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This resource is kept under review and updated in line with developments.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Our popular contract clauses tool provides an unparalleled selection of model contracts and contract clauses to help you create and maintain legally compliant documentation for your organisation.
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- Date:
- 8 November 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The Workers (Predicable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 has now received Royal Assent. But will it fix the problem of zero hours contracts and precarious work? Probably not, says XpertHR consultant editor Darren Newman, who casts an eye over Labour's plans for a "New Deal" and points to a forgotten proposal with the potential to make a real difference.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide sets out the differences between the law on fixed-term workers in Northern Ireland compared with Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).
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- Type:
- How to
Updated to reflect that the code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement may apply when a fixed-term contract ends or is extended.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was open to an NHS trust to decide not to renew a consultant anaesthetist's fixed-term contract because it had recruited a number of permanent anaesthetists to take on the work.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.
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- Type:
- Tasks