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Issues to consider when drafting a settlement agreement—checklist (employer)

Issues to consider when drafting a settlement agreement—checklist (employer) The employer (and its advisers) should consider the following issues: Preparatory steps • Obtain from the employer: ◦ a copy of the departing employee's latest contract of employment/other relevant documents containing contractual terms (NB these may be in a staff handbook) ◦ details of the contractual benefits enjoyed by the employee ◦ relevant information regarding the employee's pension benefits ◦ relevant information regarding any shares/share options, etc held by the employee? Consider the Articles of Association/any relevant shareholder agreement, share scheme documentation, etc. See also Shares and share options below Status of negotiations • Will negotiations take place between the parties directly, or between their respective legal advisers? • How strong is the employer's negotiating position? How strong are the employee's claims or potential claims? In the case of dismissal, is there a fair reason and has the employer carried out a fair procedure? Is the employer in repudiatory breach? What is the employer prepared to offer initially, and is that...

Minimum wage calculation checklist [Archived]

Minimum wage calculation checklist [Archived] ARCHIVED: This Checklist has been archived and is not maintained. In general, this calculation looks at actual cash flows and payments between the employer and the worker (and vice versa) rather than entitlements. For further information on the different elements of this calculation, see Practice Note: National minimum wage, in particular the section: Checking pay against the minimum. For a checklist summarising the main issues to consider when determining whether or not someone is entitled to receive and receives the minimum wage, see: Minimum wage compliance checklist. Pay = (A + B) - (C + D) where: • (A) is actual payments • (B) is deductions to be added back to the actual payments • (C) is excluded payments and benefits • (D) is deductions to be subtracted from the actual payment (A) Actual payments These are: • actual payments made in the pay reference period (including pay and expenses) • actual payments made in the following pay reference period which are referable to the...

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Constructive dismissal

dismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer will terminate the contract of employment by their words or actions. That will amount to what is usually called an express dismissal.There may be circumstances, however, where the employer does not terminate the contract but behaves in such a way as to entitle the employee to resign and to claim that they have effectively been dismissed as a result of the employer’s bad conduct. A resignation in such circumstances may amount to a constructive dismissal.There are three essential requirements for a constructive dismissal:•there must be an actual or anticipatory breach of contract by the employer which is a fundamental or repudiatory breach, ie one that goes to the root of the contract so as to be sufficiently serious to justify the employee's resignation•the employee must resign in response to the breach, rather than for some other reason•the employee must not delay too long in terminating the contract in response...

Contractual notice

In general, employers are free to give notice of dismissal at any time, unless they have expressly or impliedly agreed not to in the contract. There is no breach of contract as long as they allow the employee to work out their notice or (if this is provided for in the contract) pay the employee in lieu of notice.However, an employee whose contractual rights have not been breached may also have statutory rights. For example, a dismissal may not be in breach of contract but it may still be unfair (see: Unfair dismissal—overview).For sample notice clauses, see Precedent: Clauses—termination.Dismissing on noticeAll contracts of employment must include details of the length of notice that the employee is entitled to receive in order to terminate the contract. For further information, see Practice Note: Written statements of employment particulars—What the written statement must cover.There are also statutory minimum rights to notice (see Practice Note: Statutory minimum notice). If the notice period in the contract is different from the statutory minimum notice period, then...

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Settlement agreement additional clauses—resignation from directorship/office

Insert in operative provisions: 1 Resignation from directorship/office 1.1 If you have not already done so, you will on the date of this Agreement immediately resign from all offices held by you in, or on behalf of, the Employer[ and/or any Group Company] by delivering to the Employer a letter of resignation in the form set out in Schedule [enter number, eg 2]. 1.2 You will immediately on request do all and any acts and things as the Employer may require to effect and/or register your resignation under clause 1.1 above and from all other offices, trusteeships or appointments which you hold in connection with or by reason of your employment by the...

Board minutes—private M&A—share purchase—completion—target

Board minutes—private M&A—share purchase—completion—target Company number: [insert company number] [insert company name] [LIMITED OR PLC] Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors (the Meeting) of [insert company name] [Limited OR PLC] (the Company) Held at [insert place of meeting] Held on [insert day, month and year of meeting] at [insert time of meeting][am OR pm] Present: [Insert names of the director(s) physically present][[Insert names of any directors present by telephone as permitted by the Company’s articles of association] (by telephone)] [[Insert names of any directors present by other means permitted by the Company’s articles of association] (by [insert other means]] [ In attendance: ] [[Insert name of anyone in attendance, who does not count towards the quorum for the Meeting (eg the company secretary, any legal advisers)]] [ Apologies: ] [[Insert names of any directors who are unable to attend the Meeting]] 1 Chair, notice and quorum [insert name] was appointed Chair of the Meeting. The Chair reported that due...

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An employee resigns on notice from their employment while they are off work on sick leave. The period of contractual notice the employer is required to give is at least one week more than the statutory minimum period of notice required under the section 86(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The employee is not receiving any pay at the point of resignation, having exhausted their right to sick pay. In these circumstances, what pay, if any, is the employee entitled to receive during their notice period, and would the situation be different if the employer was, instead, to exercise a payment in lieu of notice clause?

An employee resigns on notice from their employment while they are off work on sick leave. The period of contractual notice the employer is required to give is at least one week more than the statutory minimum period of notice required under the section 86(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The employee is not receiving any pay at the point of resignation, having exhausted their right to sick pay. In these circumstances, what pay, if any, is the employee entitled to receive during their notice period, and would the situation be different if the employer was, instead, to exercise a payment in lieu of notice clause? Generally, if the employee has been continuously employed for one month or more, they will have the right to minimum rates of pay during the statutory period of notice, even if they remain unable to work during the notice period because of sickness or injury. If notice of termination is given by the employer, the employer’s liability to the employee is limited to...

Where an employee has insufficient length of service to claim unfair dismissal, could they nevertheless bring a claim in the employment tribunal (ET) on the basis that the employer breached their contract of employment such that it terminated their employment? What is the ET’s jurisdiction to hear a breach of contract claim in those circumstances?

Where an employee has insufficient length of service to claim unfair dismissal, could they nevertheless bring a claim in the employment tribunal (ET) on the basis that the employer breached their contract of employment such that it terminated their employment? What is the ET’s jurisdiction to hear a breach of contract claim in those circumstances? Where an employee has insufficient length of service to bring an unfair dismissal claim under the statutory regime set out in Part X of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) (ERA 1996, s 94), if the circumstances of the termination are not such that the statutory qualifying period for bringing a statutory claim is reduced or dispensed with entirely, any termination of their employment will need to be considered in terms of common law principles. For further information, see Practice Note: Qualifying period for unfair dismissal. Under common law, if an employer dismisses an employee in breach of contract, eg dismissal without notice due under the contract, then such a dismissal would be wrongful. For...

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Employment weekly highlights—5 December 2024

This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) the High Pay Centre’s ‘Charter for Fair Pay’, (2) an EAT judgment about harassment related to the claimant’s accent, (3) an EAT judgment about what needs to be included in the employment tribunal’s reasons in disability harassment claims, (4) a Ministry of Justice Call for Evidence on costs protection in discrimination claims, (5) an EAT judgment on whether a claimant could run a high value Parry v Cleaver argument for the first time on appeal, (6) analysis of the proposal to change the time limit to bring employment tribunal claims from three to six months, (7) our new Practice Note on neonatal care leave and pay, (8) our new risk assessment, checklist, action plan and monitoring log for employers to use when taking steps to prevent sexual harassment, (9) dates for your diary, and (10) other news items of interest to employment practitioners.

Ireland-Banca Carige shareholders turn to EU's top court to appeal ruling in European Central Bank case

MLex: Vittorio Malacalza and his company, Malacalza Investimenti Srl, have appealed a recent ruling they lost at the EU's lower-tier General Court against the European Central Bank (ECB).

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86 Rights of employer and employee to minimum notice

86  Rights of employer and employee to minimum notice(1)     The notice required to be given by an employer to terminate the contract of employment of a person who has been continuously employed for one month or more—(a)     is not less than one week's notice if his period of continuous employment is less than two years,(b)     is not less than one week's notice for each year of continuous employment if his period of continuous employment is two years or more but less than twelve years, and(c)     is not less