Essential points
- Terms and conditions define the employment relationship between an organisation and its employees and workers.
- An employer must provide both employees and workers with a statement of their basic terms such as the hours they will work, how much they will be paid, their holiday entitlement, their place of work, whether they must work a probationary period and so on, on their first day of employment.
- An employer must provide a wider written statement of the employee's or worker’s pension eligibility, any collective agreements which will affect the employment relationship, any right to non-compulsory training, and details on discipline and grievance procedures within two months of them starting work.
- An employment contract contains both express terms agreed between the employer and employee/worker, and implied terms which arise from legislation or common law.
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