Employment law - Personnel management

Employee contact listIf there's an unexpected work-related situation and you need to contact employees at short notice outside working hours, it's important to have their up-to-date contact details easily accessible.Unexpected situationsIf there's a fir... Read more

Future litigation assistance letterWhere an employee is leaving your employment and you were relying on them to give witness evidence at a hearing relating to an employment tribunal claim brought by another employee, you can use our letter to ask for... Read more

Letter seeking agreement to a lay-off or short time workingIf you want to implement a lay-off or short time working to deal with a temporary work shortage and you don't have the contractual right to do so, you will need to seek your employees' express ... Read more

Letter imposing a lay-off or short time working (in exercise of a specific contractual power)If you're looking at temporary ways of reducing employment overheads due to a work downturn but without having to resort to redundancy, implementing a lay-off... Read more

Confirmation of performance improvement measuresUse our letter where, following a performance review meeting, you've agreed to put in place measures to assist the employee to improve their poor performance, rather than issuing them with a formal warni... Read more

Letter notifying outcome of whistleblowing disclosureIf a worker has made a protected disclosure under your whistleblowing policy, you should inform them of the outcome of your investigation and give an indication of any actions that you'll now be tak... Read more

Shift swap request formWhere employees are shift workers, they may sometimes request to swap shifts with each other. Use our form to formalise your process for agreeing to this.Shift workersShift workers tend not to have normal working hours. Instead... Read more