Are your terms of employment for your employees spread over an
offer letter and a separate contract or handbook? Do you use zero
hours workers or workers on variable hours such as shift workers?
Will you be offering training or requiring new staff to undertake
training in the future? Do you provide staff benefits in addition
to basic pay? Do you offer your workers any paid leave, other than
the usual annual leave? Do you insist on a probationary period for
new joiners?
If so, then you will need to make some changes to comply with
the new rules which are coming into force next year in relation to
the written statement of particulars which employers are currently
required to give to their employees within two months of starting
work (commonly known as "section 1 statements" as the
rules are set out in section 1 Employment Rights Act 1996
("the ERA")).
