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A friend of mine is having a dispute with his ex-employer and is taking them to an Employment Triunal.

He wrote to them last week asking for a copy of his "Employment Contract" and "Statement of Particulars". The copy of the Employment Contract they supplied (they did not supply the SoP) was dated 2003. Whilst he was indeed working for the company on that date, he left the company in 2006. He did not return to the company until 2009 AND IN A DIFFERENT ROLE. In these circumstances, should they have issued him with a new contract ?

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simple - yes they should.

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well, depends if he signed them when he came back to them.

 

When he resigned the first time, the contract he had signed was ended. When he went back in 2009, a new contract and terms and conditions needed to be signed. If he did not, then although he knew what the terms and conditions of employment were, he hadn't agreed to them as of 2009.

 

I would tread carefully, because if there is no contract, then technically he has very limited rights as well.

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then approach it very carefully,

 

in the disciplinary i would ask to see the evidence of what has happened, where in his contract it said he shouldn't do it, where he had signed that he said that was agreed, if they refer to 2003, then i would say that isn't my start date.

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There can be a contract in place albeit not a written contract, created by one person turning up and the other paying them.

 

What point of the contract is relevant to his ET case? Just so we can rule out if other points of law would over ride the implied contract.

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agreed

 

you can have an implied contract, custom and practice etc

 

but you should still have been given a statement of particulars (employee hand book) within 60 days of starting employment listing statutory perscribed and implied terms of that contract

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He is taking his case to an ET to argue his case against gross misconduct. Under ACAS guidelines his offence is not serious enough to be considered gross misconduct. They are arguing that because it is considered gross misconduct in the "Employment Contract" they have that right. I am just wondering that because he did not sign any contract, when he returned in 2006, can they enforce it ? By the way, before theis incident he did not have any varbal/written warnings on his record.

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has he seen the contract of employment the employer is relying on

 

just because he did not sign the contract, does not make it relevant. if the contract of employment is being changed then the staff would need to be informed and offer objections then

 

if he did not object then over time it would be deemed he has accepted those terms but was a consultation period done on the change of terms in the employment contract

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probably clutching at straws. was it in a staff handbook? on the corporate intranet?

 

would a reasonable person have been able to remember it was a bad thing to do?

 

Also, what outcome is he looking for?

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No re-instatement !!. He feels that they did not take into account he previous good character and work record as they dismissed him immediateley at the Disciplinary Hearing. This infers they they had already made up their minds to dismiss him and did not consider a "Range of Reasonable Responses" (Burchell Test) e.g. written warning.

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No real fact finding interview. He was told of the alleged offence, which he admitted immediately, and was then suspended. He's not denying the offence but the severity of the punishment

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