| 1 | Changing terms and conditions of employment: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key maintained PLC content on avoiding redundancies, changing terms and conditions of employment and overseeing flexible working arrangements, with links to all the relevant materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Changing terms of employment: a quick guide A quick guide to the key issues to be considered when changing employees' terms of employment, including potential pitfalls to avoid when making changes. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Contract law for employment lawyers: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key PLC materials on basic English contract law. It includes links to employment contract know how. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Directors: toolkit for employment lawyers A toolkit to guide users around PLC Employment materials on the employment and company law aspects of the role of director. This includes materials on the appointment of directors and their service agreements, as well as dismissal of directors and severance payments. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Prevention of illegal working and establishing the right to work ... A note on what an employer needs to do to prevent illegal working within its organisation and the steps it needs to take to ensure that its employees have the right to work in the UK. The note also outlines what sanctions an employer may face under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, which came into force on 29 February 2008. For information on the rules that apply to those individuals employed before 29 February 2008, see Practice note, Establishing the right to work in the UK (prior to 29 Februrary 2008). | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Acting for an employee entering into an employment contract A note of the issues to consider when acting for an employee entering into an employment contract. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Apprenticeships: employment law implications An overview of the employment law obligations of employers towards apprentices and the corresponding rights of apprentices. The note considers common law contracts of apprenticeship and apprenticeship agreements under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Atypical restrictive covenants It is customary for employers to seek to protect their business interests, such as market position and stability of their workforce, on the departure of an employee. Often, protection is achieved through direct restraints of trade such as restrictive covenants (see Practice note, Restrictive covenants and garden leave). Sometimes, other types of contractual terms may be used (or may be viewed as being used) to limit unfair competition. This note looks at contractual clauses which can amount to indirect restraints of trade and "atypical" restrictive covenants. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Bonuses A note explaining the possible types of bonus scheme, the obligations to disclose directors' bonus arrangements, corporate governance issues relevant to bonuses, and bonus issues on termination of employment. It also deals with equal opportunities issues, including the effect of maternity leave on bonus entitlement. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Casual workers This note considers casual workers, their employment status and the main legal issues surrounding their engagement. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Changing terms of employment A note dealing with the legal and practical considerations which arise when the employer wishes to change the terms of an employee's (or several employees') employment contracts. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Confidentiality during employment and after termination A note on the issues arising in relation to confidentiality both during employment and after termination. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Constructive dismissal This note outlines the rights of employees to resign where their employer breaches their contract of employment and the case law in this area. For a letter of advice to an employee explaining the law in this area, see Standard document, Letter of advice on constructive dismissal. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Directors' service agreements and regulatory issues This note considers the issues involved in negotiating and drafting directors' service agreements, including pay and benefit provisions and how to protect the company on termination of employment. The note also deals with the regulatory framework affecting the employment terms of listed company directors. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Excluding or limiting liability for negligence This note considers the ways in which a party may seek to exclude or limit its liability for negligence and negligent misstatement. It discusses the common law position, contractual exclusion clauses, the issue of estoppel and the impact of statutory restrictions such as the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (UCTA). | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | Fixed-term contracts This note examines the key provisions of UK law relating to fixed-term employees, including their right not to be treated less favourably than permanent employees and the use of successive fixed-term contracts. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 17 | Golden parachutes This practice note provides an explanation of the term "golden parachute" and the issues that need to be taken into account by an employer considering whether to enter into a contract with a director which contains a golden parachute clause where there is a change of control. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 18 | Holidays A note detailing workers' annual holiday rights under the Working Time Regulations 1998 and under their contract of employment. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 19 | Implied terms in employment contracts This note examines the ways in which rights and obligations which are not the subject of an express contractual term may be implied into an employment contract. The note also considers the key terms that are usually implied into employment contracts and their practical effects on the employment relationship. It makes suggestions on how they can be dealt with pro-actively by express agreement. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 20 | Intellectual property issues relating to employees and ... This practice note considers how the UK intellectual property regime applies to employees and consultants. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 21 | Partnership law for employment lawyers This practice note summarises the key features of a partnership, including the rights and obligations of partners and the distinction between different categories of partners. It also considers discrimination against partners, maternity rights, partner departures and the enforceability of restrictive covenants against outgoing partners. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 22 | Pensions for employment lawyers An outline of the pensions issues that may be encountered by employment lawyers in their practice. The note explains the various types of pension schemes and their tax treatment, as well as looking at the pensions aspects of transactions. Links are also given to further practice notes dealing with pensions in the employment contract, compensation for pension loss, changing pensions terms and discrimination in providing pensions. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 23 | Pensions in the employment contract This practice note looks at the typical provisions in an employment contract that relate to pensions and the legal issues that arise when employers want to make changes to pensions terms. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 24 | Recital to a deed under section 45(6) of the Law of Property ... A note on section 45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 25 | Restrictive covenants and garden leave This note gives an overview of how an employer can use garden leave and post-termination restrictive covenants to protect its business when employees leave. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 26 | Rome I and Rome II: a summary This note considers: The Rome I Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations. The Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations. It summarises the background to both Regulations, their legislative history and key objectives (including the instruments which preceded their introduction, namely the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations and the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995). | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 27 | Rome I: an outline of the key provisions This practice note summarises, from an English law perspective, the key provisions of Regulation 593/2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I). It highlights the main changes from the rules contained in the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations of 1980 (Rome Convention). | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 28 | Salary sacrifice arrangements This practice note is a guide to the use of salary and bonus sacrifice arrangements. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 29 | School employees: discipline, dismissals and claims This note sets out some of the key employment issues applicable to teachers and support staff in maintained schools in England and Wales. It also describes some of the legal issues arising from the duty of care owed by school staff to pupils. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 30 | Secondment agreements A note on the issues to consider when drafting or reviewing secondment agreements. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 31 | TUPE (4): changing terms of employment A note considering the specific rules which apply to changes in terms of employment under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 32 | Vicarious liability This practice note addresses the circumstances in which vicarious liability arises, at common law and under statute. It also looks at the implications of vicarious liability, and the alternative bases for attributing liability where vicarious liability is not applicable. | Practice notes | Maintained |