Food Handler Employment Contract

This Food Handler Employment Contract is tailored for staff working in food preparation. It is suitable for temporary, fixed-term and permanent roles.

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.

Role-specific provisions for food handling

The contract includes clauses relevant to food handler roles, including an enhanced responsibility to inform a manager if the employee (or a member of their family) is suffering from any of a range of infectious diseases.

It also includes provisions on smoking at work, the safe use of knives, and the employer’s right of search.

Drugs and alcohol

The Drugs and Alcohol clause enables the employer to carry out random breath and drugs tests on employees who are suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

What the contract covers

• Core terms including duties/job title and commencement/continuous employment, place of work and work outside the UK
• Hours of work, pay and benefits, holidays, other paid leave, training and sickness absence
• Food-handler specific provisions including smoking, right of search, drug and alcohol policy, personal hygiene policy, and food handling/safe use of knives procedures
• Maternity and paternity rights, pension, restrictions and confidentiality, and collective agreements
• Grievance and disciplinary procedures, data protection, changes to terms, severability, governing law and jurisdiction, and right to work in the UK

Food Handler Employment Contract is part of Employment. Just £38.50 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Employment for 1 year.