Subjects - Employment - Employment contracts
Making them
Lawyers draft employment contracts all the time to make sure that they cover all the legal requirements, which are many and various and getting wider and wider all the time.
Advising on them
We can advise employer or employee on the terms of an employment contract, and the rights and responsibilities that arise from it, and on how it might be changeable in certain circumstances.
Enforcing it
In principle an employment contract is just a contract like any other and so it can be enforced in the civil courts like any other contract, but there are also employment tribunals specifically set up to deal with disputes concerning employment contracts.
You can read more about employment tribunals here.
Various forms of discrimination are now illegal by law. These include discrimination on the grounds of sex, marital status, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, parenthood, maternity, paternity, short-time working, part-time working and temporary working. Most claims for discrimination of any of these grounds are dealt with in the employment tribunal.