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SECTION 8:

EMPLOYMENT


If staff are employed or engaged in the UK, their terms of employment must comply with UK employment legislation.

A statutory and common law regime governs employment matters in the UK with most employment disputes being heard before employment tribunals rather than the courts. Different statutory employment rights apply to employees and workers.

Broadly speaking, the law defines an individual who works under a contract of employment as an employee and someone who works under any other type of contract under which they carry out work or services personally for another party to the contract who is not their client or customer, as a worker.

UK employment law is likely to differ from regimes outside the UK and in order to avoid costly litigation, bad publicity and difficulty recruiting, it is necessary to understand the nature and effect of these requirements.

Employment contracts

Working time regulations

Notice periods

Redundancy

Unfair dismissal

Pre-termination negotiations

Whistleblowing

Discrimination

Equal pay

National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage

Benefits

Flexible working

Sickness and sick pay

Families and pregnancy

Trade unions

Confidentiality

Retirement

Restrictive covenants

Intellectual property

The new Employment Rights Bill

Health and safety

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SECTION 8:

EMPLOYMENT


If staff are employed or engaged in the UK, their terms of employment must comply with UK employment legislation.

A statutory and common law regime governs employment matters in the UK with most employment disputes being heard before employment tribunals rather than the courts. Different statutory employment rights apply to employees and workers.

Broadly speaking, the law defines an individual who works under a contract of employment as an employee and someone who works under any other type of contract under which they carry out work or services personally for another party to the contract who is not their client or customer, as a worker.

UK employment law is likely to differ from regimes outside the UK and in order to avoid costly litigation, bad publicity and difficulty recruiting, it is necessary to understand the nature and effect of these requirements.

Employment contracts

Working time regulations

Notice periods

Redundancy

Unfair dismissal

Pre-termination negotiations

Whistleblowing

Discrimination

Equal pay

National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage

Benefits

Flexible working

Sickness and sick pay

Families and pregnancy

Trade unions

Confidentiality

Retirement

Restrictive covenants

Intellectual property

The new Employment Rights Bill

Health and safety

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