Probationary periods

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• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee whose probation period has been extended due to poor performance notifies the employer that they are pregnant, must it confirm them in the post?

• Date:

  8 August 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Contracts of employment: Notice rights on expiry of probationary period

  In Przybylska v Modus Telecom Ltd EAT/0566/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a tribunal was wrong to imply into a contract a term that the employer could carry out a review of the probationary period within a reasonable time of the expiry of the probationary period.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer withhold certain rights or entitlements from a new employee until the end of an agreed probationary period?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Must an employer wait until the end of the probationary period before dismissing an unsatisfactory probationer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer failed to follow its procedures for employees on probation would a dismissed probationer have any redress?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee's contract is terminated during their probationary period is the employee entitled to holiday pay on termination?