Online Solicitor

When it comes to the obligations contained within employment contracts, employers have the following duties towards their employees, all of which they are expected to know and uphold at all times.

1. The employer must provide the employee with accurate and correct information regarding their rights under employment law.
2. The employer must observe relevant health and safety regulations, including providing appropriate food hygiene training when required.
3. The employer must allow every employee the opportunity to complain and spend ample time dealing with feedback.
4. The employer must provide employees with work to do and pay them the agreed salary, providing the employee arrives and is able to work.
5. The employer must ensure any references for an employee are completed accurately, truthfully and fairly.
6. Although there is obligation for the employer to pay employees contractual sick pay, they are required to pay statutory sick pay to eligible employees for the first twenty-eight weeks of any three year period of work.
7. The employer must allow at least four weeks holiday in any one year period of work.
8. The relationship between the employer and employee must be one of mutual trust and confidence; both parties are expected to honour agreements and act in a truthful, honest and respectful way in all dealings with one another.