Law in the Workplace

Outcome 2: explain the importance of a contract of employment

The candidate will be able to:

• describe the advantages of having a contract
• identify the main terms that would usually be found in a contract of employment ie names of the employer/employee, place of work, hours of work, holiday entitlement, job title, sick leave entitlement, date when employment commences, salary, collective agreements, special conditions eg working from home
• identify the implied terms of a contract of employment for the employer eg duty to pay a salary, take reasonable care of employees, reimbursement of expenses and for the employee eg duty of good faith owed by employees, duty of obedience.