End of employment

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  For how long should an employer keep an employee or ex-employee's personnel files?

• Type:

  How to

  How to make a payment in lieu of notice

  Updated to reflect changes to the rules on taxation of payments in lieu of notice from 6 April 2018.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter seeking employee's agreement to voluntary redundancy terms

  A model letter to to seek an employee's agreement to the terms of a voluntary redundancy.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter confirming employee's dismissal following voluntary redundancy

  A model letter to confirm an employee's dismissal following a voluntary redundancy programme.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter confirming termination date and final payments to employee who has resigned

  A model letter to confirm a resigning employee's termination date and set out their final payments.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee's resignation confirming payment in lieu of notice

  A model letter responding to an employee's resignation confirming payment in lieu of notice.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Notice period contract clause

  A model contract clause to set out terms relating to notice and pay in lieu of notice.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer pays an employee in lieu of notice, is the payment taxable?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Head teacher fairly dismissed for failure to disclose association with convicted sex offender

  In Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the Supreme Court held that a head teacher was fairly dismissed for failing to disclose her association with a convicted sex offender.

• Date:

  21 March 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Misconduct dismissals: Could the long-established approach to fairness be open to question?

  Consultant editor Darren Newman considers a recent case in which the Supreme Court judges seemed to cast doubt on the long-established approach to misconduct dismissals set out in Burchell.