Contracts

The main piece of legislation is the Employment Rights Act 1996.

Any terms and conditions that you use should be tailored to your business – Bespoke HR will be able to give advice in order to ensure your terms and conditions comply with legislation and are suitable to your business.

The moment an applicant unconditionally accepts your offer of a job a contract of employment comes into existence. The terms and conditions can be oral, written or implied or all three.

You are under a legal duty to provide the employee with a written statement of main employment particulars within 2 months of a start date.