Notifies lay-off or short-time working — only where the contract allows it.
⚠ There is NO general right to lay off or impose short-time working without pay. It is lawful only where the contract expressly permits it, or the employee agrees. Otherwise it is an unlawful deduction from wages under ERA 1996 Part II and may be a repudiatory breach entitling the employee to resign and claim constructive dismissal. Statutory guarantee payments under ERA 1996 ss.147-154 apply on workless days, subject to a daily cap and a limit of five days in any three months.
This template is not advice on your situation. What you sell, who you sell it to, what you have already agreed and what has already gone wrong decide whether a clause protects you, so read it against your own business before you issue it and change what does not fit. If the other side has already threatened a claim, the matter is a dispute and goes to AD Solicitors.
The document has 4 numbered sections:
Everything in square brackets is a blank for you to complete: names, dates, figures and the terms particular to your business. Read the whole document before you send it, and check the clauses on what happens when something goes wrong against how your business operates.
If a clause does not apply, delete it rather than leaving it blank.
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It covers what the law requires. Have the clauses on liability, on what happens when things go wrong and on who owns what read against your own business before you rely on them.
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