Workplace and Environment

Apprenticeship agreementEmployers are allowed to employ apprentices on contracts of employment, rather than on contracts of apprenticeship, subject to complying with a number of specified conditions. Our apprenticeship agreement complies with those c... Read more

Director's service agreementAny director who is also an employee of the company should always be given a service contract. As well as ensuring there are no arguments over their status it should also minimise the possibility of any other misunderstandi... Read more

Employee weekly timesheetUse our document to enable you to accurately measure and record the daily working hours of each of your workers should you wish to keep this type of record.Legal positionThe law requires you to maintain records which a... Read more

Part-time employee clausesOur clauses extend to hours of work, pay and holidays. They have regard to the pro rata principle which states that a part-time worker must receive not less than the proportion of pay or a benefit that the number of their we... Read more

Reminder to take holidayTo be able to rely on statutory provisions enabling accrued but untaken annual leave to be lost if it's not taken in the current holiday year, you must have given your workers a reasonable opportunity to take that annual le... Read more

Holiday request formIt's important that employees know how they should request annual leave. Having a formal system in place which involves the employee completing a holiday request form means that everyone knows where they stand in terms of whether a... Read more

Request to carry over holiday formIf, at your discretion, you occasionally allow employees to carry over their unused annual leave entitlement from one holiday year to the next, you can ask them to first complete our request to carry over holiday for... Read more

Reply to request to carry over holidayOur letter exceptionally approves the carrying over of some of the employee's unused annual leave entitlement from one holiday year to the next. Holidays policy provisionsOur Holidays Policy is clear that employ... Read more

Return from maternity leave letterAll pregnant employees have the right to take up to 26 weeks' ordinary maternity leave and up to a further 26 weeks' additional maternity leave and to resume work afterwards. An employee who decides to return at the en... Read more

Quick guide to RIDDOR 2013If there's an accident or a case of work-related illness in your business, you'll need to promptly check if it's reportable to the HSE. Use our quick reference guide to do this.Report itThe types of incident which are reportabl... Read more