Employment

• ACASAdvisory Conciliation and Arbitration...
• Basic DisclosureSome forms of employment require a Criminal Conviction Certificate, which will show all convictions held at national level which are not...
• BullyingThis occurs when someone tries to intimidate, humiliate or undermine another...
• Collective AgreementAn agreement reached through negotiations between a trade union and an...
• Compromise AgreementThis is an agreement which is entered into by an employee and employer, preventing an employee’s right to a claim against their...
• Confidentiality agreementAn agreement made to protect confidential information in case it needs to be disclosed to another...
• Constructive DismissalWhen an employee is forced to resign because of an employer's...
• Contract Of ServiceA contract under which a person agrees to consider themselves an...
• Contract for ServiceA contract with a person who is...
• Costs in the Employment Tribunal Among the powers of the Employment Tribunal are those to award costs against a party that has acted “vexatiously, abusively, deceptively or otherwise unreasonably” or that has brought proceedings deemed to be misconceived. Since 6 April 2012 the...
• DDADisability Discrimination...
• Direct DiscriminationThis is where an employee or prospective employee is less favourably treated because of their race, sex, marital status, religion, sexual orientation or gender...
• Disciplinary ProcedureThere is a statutory disciplinary procedure which must be followed by all employers and...
• DiscriminationLess favourable treatment of one or more members of a specified...
• EPAEqual Pay...
• Effective Date of Termination This is the date on which an employee's notice of dismissal expires...
• Employers' LiabilityA claim for personal injury arising from injuries sustained as a result of employment...
• Employment Appeal TribunalThis court deals with appeals from Employment...
• Employment TribunalInitial court which hears employment law disputes (previously known as Industrial...
• Enhanced DisclosureSome forms of employment require an Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate, which includes information from local police records on minor convictions, cautions and non-conviction...
• GangmasterA gangmaster is someone or some organisation which supplies workers to the agricultural and food-processing...
• Genuine Occupational RequirementThis is useful in cases where an employer would otherwise be seen to be discriminatingb (such as an actress needing to be a...
• Grievance ProcedureThis is the procedure under which an employee dissatisfied with a disciplinary decision can apply to a higher...
• Gross MisconductAn act by an employee which allows their employer to dismiss them...
• HarassmentUnwanted conduct which offends someone's dignity at...
• Indirect DiscriminationThis is where the effect of certain requirements, conditions or practices imposed by an employer has an adverse impact disproportionally on a certain...
• Industrial DiseaseA disease or illness developed as a result of working...
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit This is available to any employee who has been disabled as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment or as a result of an industrial disease due to the nature of that...
• Legitimate InterestWhere an employer has a right to have certain interests protected by...
• PAYEPay As You Earn - the system whereby employers pay tax on behalf of their...
• Protected ActUnfavourable treatment of an employee will be regarded as unlawful victimisation if it is as a result of the employee doing or intending to do a "protectected act" - which is essentially an action pertaining to the Race Relations...
• Protected DisclosureThis is a disclosure of information which is protected by the Whistleblowers...
• Protective AwardThis is made by an Employment Tribunal in favour of individuals who have been made redundant if their employer failed to arrange for elections of employee representatives or failed to consult with appropriate representatives of affected employees about...
• RRARace Relations...
• Reason for Dismissal When an Employment Tribunal assesses whether an employee was dismissed fairly or not, it must determine the reason for the dismissal; this means that the Tribunal will need to establish what was in the dismissing officer’s mind at the time the...
• RedundancyWhere employment is terminated because the position no longer...
• RemunerationPay or reward for services...
• Repudiatory BreachA serious breach of contract (by either employee or employer) which entitles the other party to terminate the contract without giving...
• SDASex Discrimination...
• SMPStatutory Maternity...
• SSPStatutory Sick...
• Service contractContracts sometimes given to directors and officers of a company instead of an employment...
• Sexual HarassmentHarassment on the basis of...
• Standard DisclosureSome forms of employment require a Criminal Record Certificate, which will provide details of spent convictions and of cautions as well as of unspent...
• Summary DismissalThis occurs when an employee is dismissed without notice or prior warnings due to gross...
• Tribunal time limits Employment Tribunal rules state that claims for unfair dismissal must be brought within three months of the effective date of the employee’s termination date; for example, if an employee was dismissed on 10 February 2012 the claim must have arrived at...
• Unfair DismissalWhen an employer dismisses an employee without valid or justified reason, or without following the required...
• Vicarious LiabilityAn employer is vicariously liable for negligent acts or omissions by any employee in the course of...
• VictimisationThis occurs when an employer comes into conflict with an employee for using their workplace complaints procedures or exercising their legal...
• WhistleblowingThis occurs when an employee alerts a higher body of malpractice in the...
• Wrongful DismissalThis occurs when an employee is summarily dismissed in breach of contractual...