Employment contract or contract for services?

Summary It can be important whether there is an ‘employment contract’, ie whether the person is an ‘employee’. In particular, only an employ...

Rights of workers and employees: introduction

This page outlines firstly the three basic types of employment status, ‘employee’, ‘worker’ or ‘genuinely self-employed’. It then looks at t...

Long-term disability benefits scheme: rights to dismiss

The EAT implied a contractual term restricting the employer’s right to dismiss an employee entitled under such a scheme, and said brea...

Employment contracts

Summary An employment contract is an example of a contract, so general contract law applies to it. This page just focuses on points specific...

Contract law

Contract law: relevance to OH practitioners Contract law is relevant to occupational health (OH) practitioners for at least two reasons: Mos...

Employment

This topic puts employment rights into context, deals with who has the rights (’employees’/’workers’), discusses var...