Employment law

Pay secrecy clauseThere's no general implied term that employees must keep details of their salary confidential. So if maintaining confidentiality of salary and benefits information is important, you need an express contractual clause to cover the poi... Read more

Unmeasured worker daily average agreementWhere a worker performs unmeasured work for the purposes of the national minimum (NMW) and national living wage (NLW), you can enter into a daily average agreement of hours with them.What's unmeasured work?For ... Read more

Reporting procedureIt's worth including a short reporting procedure in employment contracts in order to put positive reporting duties on employees. Clause benefitsIf you place an employee under a contractual duty to regularly report what they're doing ... Read more

Change of adoption leave requestEmployees who are proposing to adopt a child and who have selected an adoption leave start date have the statutory right to subsequently vary their selected date.A change of dateIf, having given you notification of the... Read more

Bribery report formAs part of your adequate procedures to prevent bribery, you should be actively encouraging staff to report any suspected incidents of bribery. Our bribery report form enables them to easily do this.The corporate offenceUnder the Br... Read more

Anti-bribery policyYour business can be guilty of a criminal offence under the Bribery Act 2010 where it has failed to prevent bribery by a person associated with it. However, you have a defence if you can show you had adequate procedures in place wh... Read more

Letter confirming an increase in hours requestUse our letter to issue to an employee once it's been agreed they can increase their hours of work. It sets out the relevant changes to their contractual terms consequent on such a request.Statutory provis... Read more

Renewal of fixed-term employment letterOur renewal of fixed-term employment letter is for use when what you're offering an employee on the expiry of their current fixed-term contract is a further fixed term but in a different job role - so it's a new f... Read more

Job share particulars This letter may be used to record an agreed job share arrangement, for example following a flexible working request.  Legal positionA job share occurs where two (or possibly more) employees share the duties and responsibilities... Read more

Letter confirming a reduction in hours requestUse our letter to issue to an employee once it's been agreed they can reduce their hours from full-time to part-time work. It sets out the relevant changes to their contractual terms consequent on such a r... Read more