Employment
Here you'll find information for employers.
OUT-LAW Guides (UK law)
- Directors' service contracts (menu
of articles)
- Directors' pensions (menu of
articles)
- Directors' remuneration issues
(menu of articles)
- An introduction to pension
schemes
A discussion of the various types of pension scheme, e.g. personal,
group, stakeholder, that are available.
- Checklist on Teleworkers for
Employers
A discussion of the potential pitfalls in the areas of employment
law, facilities, health and safety, intellectual property and
taxation.
- Contracts of Employment – The
Rules
By carefully preparing a contract of employment for each employee,
disputes and ambiguity as to the incidents of the employment
relationship can be minimised.
- Cyberslackers – all in a day's
work?
Internet and email abuse can leave employers exposed to a variety
of 'cyberliability' claims. How do you manage the risks?
- Data protection and monitoring at
work
A discussion of the Information Commissioner's Employment Practices
Data Protection Code which covers, e.g. when monitoring is allowed,
covert monitoring and the legal implications.
- Disciplining an employee
All employers need to know how to discipline their employees
fairly. Mishandling disciplinary issues gives rise to a huge number
of employment tribunal claims every year.
- An introduction to monitoring
employees
- The laws relating to monitoring
employees
This article covers the monitoring of employees by intercepting
email, telephone and internet use, the use of CCTV and in-vehicle
tracker systems.
- Equal Opportunities Policies
How to ensure compliance with the Employment Equality (Religion or
Belief) Regulations 2003.
- When is a contractor not a
contractor?
Not everyone who works is an "employee". It is essential that
contractors (and anyone hiring contractors or consultants)
understand the distinction so that their legal rights and
obligations are clear.
- Internet and email policies
If employees have no rules or guidelines to follow, each will form
his or her own view as to what is and what is not permissible in
email and internet practice.
- Staff and their personal blogs
- Issues for Employers
This guide sets out some of the contractual issues which have to be
considered by a UK business in relation to its use of personnel
whether employees or contractors.
- Key employment issues around home
working
How employers can benefit from home-working whilst avoiding some of
the pitfalls. A discussion of the issues they should consider when
drafting new terms and conditions of employment.
- Mediation: how it can help to resolve
employment disputes
The 2004 Dispute Resolution Regulations were introduced, in part,
to get parties to speak to each other before they headed for their
nearest employment tribunal.
- Monitoring your employees' emails –
legally
Employees need to know how to monitor lawfully, if they breach data
protection legislation, any evidence they gather may be
inadmissible, defeating the point of collecting it.
- Offshore outsourcing – what happens to
the employees?
The position in the UK, EU and US with regards to offshore
outsourcing and the affects on the employees left behind.
- Basic guide to TUPE
The purpose of TUPE is to protect employees if the business in
which they are employed changes hands. Here we discuss a
significant and often tricky piece of legislation.
- References: How to write them
Basic rules for giving a reference, what to write and the risks if
you get it wrong are all discussed in this guide.
- Restrictive covenants in
employment contracts
A look at the types of restrictive covenants, garden leave and
breach of a restrictive covenants.
- Staff and their personal blogs
Blogging in spare time can raise an employment issue.
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Useful links
Warning: The links below are to legislation,
some of which may be out of date. Some Acts may have been amended
many times, but when you follow the link to HMSO's website you will
not see the end result of all these amendments. So be careful
before relying on what you read.
