Should employees be offered repeated fixed-term contracts when there is a need for permanent employment? Europe’s highest court has ruled this is new against EU law – a decision which could have ramifications for UK businesses.
Waterfront’s Matthew Hodson, tells the Gazette that renewing a fixed-term contract can already amount to unlawful treatment under the UK’s Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002.
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Most employers are keen to avoid dismissing staff in whom they have invested time and money but this is not always possible.
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), sometimes referred to as “gagging clauses”, are rarely out of the news.
On 5 December 2022, following its Making Flexible Working The Default consultation, which has now concluded, the UK government announced that it will be introducing reforms to the law around employees’ rights to make flexible working requests.
I was interested to read the recent reports in the Guardian and BBC News that Elon Musk has sent an email which requires all staff to sign a commitment to working “long hours at high intensity” and being “extremely hardcore”. They report that the alternative is that they will receive three months’ severance pay.