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Protecting your business from former employees should be at the top of every business owner's agenda. When a key employee leaves to work for a competitor your valuable confidential information and trade connections are at risk. So, what steps should you take to protect your business against these competitive threats? You must use appropriate restrictions [...]
A zero-hours contract is a type of contract used by employers under which a worker or employee has no set hours of work. There is no obligation on the employer to guarantee any hours of work and the employee is paid only for the work that is done. The House of Commons Briefing Paper (published [...]
The Exclusivity Terms in Zero Hour Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015 came into force today. It provides employees and workers under a zero hour contract with some important additional employment rights, as follows: Any dismissal of a zero hour contract employee will be automatically unfair, if the principal reason is that employee breached a contractual provision restricting them from working for another employer. [...]
