Changing Employment Terms
Varying contracts to create beneficial ways of working following the coronavirus pandemic
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In a nutshell
This Special Report provides detailed guidance on the issues that you need to consider when changing an employee’s employment terms. As well as exploring how the law regulates the way in which you may vary employment terms, we look at the practicalities. It will ensure that you can make changes that are legally binding whilst minimising your exposure to risk.
In detail
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic forced most businesses to temporarily change and evolve their ways of working. As we slowly start to emerge from the restrictions and you begin to assess your specific long-term business needs in a post-pandemic world it may be that some of the temporary changes that had to be implemented on an emergency basis worked well for the business, with the result that you now want to make them permanent. Alternatively, there may be other changes to employment terms or the way in which employees work that you would like to make as part of a general business reorganisation. For example:
- Place of work - do you want some employees to continue to work from home on a permanent basis?
- Pay - do any temporary pay cuts need to be made permanent due to your current financial situation?
- Benefits - can you still afford to offer the same level of benefits, or are some of them no longer suitable or relevant given that employees are now permanently working from home?
- Working hours - do working hours or shift patterns need to reduce or change to give you more flexibility in the running of your business?
- Job duties - do some job duties need to change to reflect the fact that your business has moved on as a result of the pandemic?
This Special Report delivers all the essential advice that businesses need in 2021. It’s a practical guide for all employers to help ensure the future viability and success of your business in a post-pandemic world.
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Business owners, personnel managers and HR officers that want to:
- Make changes to employment terms in a legally binding but risk-free way
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In this Tips & Advice Special Report you'll read about...
Introduction
Identifying the contractual terms
Changes authorised by the employment contract
Changes not authorised by the employment contract
Changing employment terms with express consent
Implied consent and unilateral variation
Dismissal and re-employment
Collective consultation on dismissal and re-employment
The discrimination risk
Changes to the written statement of employment particulars
Documents
Mobility and relocation clause
Flexible job duties clause
Flexible working hours clause
Variation of terms of contract of employment letter
(in exercise of a contractual power)
Blanket power to vary contract clause
Meeting to discuss varying contract terms
Letter seeking agreement to vary employment contract terms
Letter confirming agreement to vary terms of contract of employment
Letter chasing agreement to vary employment contract terms
Proposal to dismiss and re-employ on new terms
Letter terminating employment and offering re-employment on new terms
Invitation to nominate as employee rep for changing employment terms
Invitation to elect employee reps for changing employment terms
Ballot form for election of employee reps
Employee reps election result notice
Letter inviting collective consultation on changing employment terms
Statement of changes to employment particulars
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