As a general rule, you can’t amend any documents which have contractual force without first having your employees’ express and prior consent. Fair enough, but is there any way you might be able to
retain some flexibility here?
Published 05.06.2013
It’s a question that crops up all the time - you need to move your business to another location or move an employee to another job function. Do you have the right to insist on these changes?
Published 07.09.2006
You want to make some changes to your employees’ employment contracts. Can you simply ask them to sign on the dotted line? If not, what’s the current legal thinking as to what you must do first?
Published 07.02.2008
Due to the crisis you need to make cost savings so you’ve tried to reduce an employee’s hours and pay by mutual consent. They’ve refused to negotiate but you still wish to proceed. What are your
options?
Published 18.05.2020
When it comes to employment contracts, you naturally want flexibility so that if business reasons require contract terms to be varied, you can do this without facing a constructive dismissal claim.
What’s the best way to achieve this?
Published 13.12.2007
Asda Stores recently wanted to bring all of its staff under a single pay structure. But this meant altering 18,000 contracts. So how did the wording in its staff handbook help it to get around the
8,700 who opposed the change?
Published 09.03.2010
If an employment contract includes a flexible job duties clause, you have the right to ask an employee to perform additional or alternative tasks based on business needs. But just how far does it
allow you to go?
Published 09.10.2012
If you need to change one or more terms of an employment contract for genuine business reasons, you have three main options to effect that change. What are they and what are the risks?
Published 06.03.2024
You recently sent an employment contract out to a successful job applicant. Having done so, you’d now like to alter it by adding an additional term. As the contract hasn’t yet been signed and
returned, can you do this?
Published 07.07.2017
In order to avoid redundancies, you may have already asked staff to agree to temporary flexible working measures, such as reduced hours. But if there aren’t enough volunteers, how do you impose the
changes that you need to make?
Published 19.06.2009