Lay-Off / Short-Time Employment Contract

The Lay-off / Short-time Employment Contract is a general employment contract that can be used for a variety of roles. In addition to standard terms, it includes a clause dealing with laying-off employees or placing them on short-time working.

Employers must provide workers and employees with a written statement of their main terms and conditions of employment (often known as a Standard Form Section One Statement).

This Employment Contract covers the requirements of a Standard Form Section One Statement and must be provided to the employee or worker by day one of employment.

Includes a lay-off and short-time working clause

This contract includes a specific clause dealing with lay-off and short-time working, alongside the core terms you would expect in a general employment contract.

What the contract covers

• General terms, duties and job title, and commencement/continuous employment date
• Working hours, place of work, mobility, and work outside the UK
• Pay, benefits, pension and retirement
• Holiday, other paid leave, training and sickness absence
• Maternity and paternity rights
• Collective agreements, grievance and disciplinary procedures, and staff handbook/employment policies
• Termination of employment, data protection, governing law and right to work in the UK
• Lay-off and short-time working

Important note on redundancy pay

Please note that when a lay-off / short-time working is to occur for an indefinite period, the employee will be entitled to make a claim for statutory redundancy pay after either four consecutive weeks or six weeks or more within a 13 week period of being laid-off / placed on short-time working. Please see the Guidance Notes available for more information.

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