As the New Year dawns, some changes to the detail of your employment contracts, leave arrangements and holiday pay will need to be made in April. Furthermore you will need to start to think about how you are going to resource your business with changes in how ‘temps’ are paid and, further down the line, how your company is going to employ contractors.   Employment contracts Two changes may be necessary depending on your current contracts and your process for issuing them to new starters after April 6th 2020.   Firstly, all new starters (including employees, zero hours’ workers, casual and seasonal workers) after this date need to be issued with a written statement on or before the first day of employment (rather than within the first 8 weeks of employment as is currently the case)   Secondly, for new employment contracts issued after 6th April 2020, the mandatory information that needs to be included has been extended to include the following: normal hours of work, days … [Read more...]