Legal | Workers at this firm 'employed without contracts'

When a new recruit joins a workforce, they are issued with a contract of employment - a legally binding agreement between an employer and their employee on the basis of their employment relationship.

The document should outline the names of the relevant parties, the employee’s start date, their job title and description, the place of work, contracted work hours, salary and many other crucial elements to prevent them from getting off on the wrong foot.

According to The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), it is not imperative that employment contracts are in writing, although it is preferable if they are for a paper trail - but they need to be legally valid. This employment contract will initiate as soon as the new recruit accepts their offer of employment.

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While Acas stress the crucial importance of having a proper contract of employment, it has recently come to light that workers at a Scottish Amazon depot canteen were ‘employed without contracts’ – the Daily Record reports.