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For Employment Tribunal and EAT application and other forms go to the tribunal forms section below.
Specific forms and precedents
Age Discrimination letters and forms
Go to Age discrimination/2006 regulations/Forms and Draft Letters
Go to www.dairyco.org.uk for various employment related forms. Although these specifically relate to farming, there are various free template documents which may be generally useful, including an example disciplinary policy, an absence policy, written warning letters, redundancy latters and medical letters and forms.
Go to CEDR model employment contract clauses and see notes at Mediation and ADR
There are useful practical notes plus a free draft precedent for a compromise agreement on barrister Charles Price's website.
Go to contract of employment and/or section one statement and see notes at Written particulars of employment .
Model forms and letters (including a form of letter to be sent by the employer, setting out the reasons for proposed disciplinary action or dismissal and arranging the hearing and a form of letter to be sent by the employer after the hearing) are included in a booklet of BERR Guidance for employers on Disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures
There are BERR model forms for employers to use as follows: (i) Form FW(A): Flexible working application form, (ii) Form FW(D): Flexible working appeal form; and (iii) Form FW(G): Flexible working notice of withdrawal form.
There are BERR model forms for employers to use as follows: (i) Form FW(B): Flexible working application acceptance form; (ii) Form FW(C): Flexible working application rejection form; (iii) Form FW(E): Flexible working appeal reply form; and (iv) Form FW(F): Flexible working extension of time limit form.
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A vast selection of over 1 Million international documents, templates, and forms you can preview and download for free is available on the www.docstoc.com website. The site includes an "employment law documents area"
Model forms and letters are included in a booklet of BERR Guidance for employees on Disciplinary and grievance procedures
Home Office (UK Border Agency) provides various immigration related forms. This is a link to the UKBA search engine, pre-set to look for forms. We suggest you type "UK" into the search box if you are not sure what you want to search for.
BERR Model letter for employers to acknowledge notification of Maternity Leave
A selection of "Policy Documents" (including a Dignity at Work Policy, an Email and Internet Policy; Disciplinary Policy and Procedures; Absence Policy; Mobile Phone Policy; Dress Code Policy etc) are offered at reasonable prices by a website at www.employmentpolicydocuments.co.uk.
A series of semi-official Redundancy related forms on the Insolvency Service website includes non-insolvency related forms.
A contract of employment automatically comes into existence when an employee starts work, whether in writing or not. An employer is required by law to provide employees with a written statement setting out the "main particulars" of their terms of employment (see generally notes at Statement of particulars of employment ). In many cases this is all that is needed but in cases where more detail is needed, for example where there are restrictive covenants and/or other special rights/obligations, it will be sensible for both the employer and employee to ensure that there is a written contract specifiying the terms in detail.
The Government provides a useful and free Official example of a written statement of employment particulars (also on their website there are BERR/Business Link back up notes to their example written statement of employment particulars which includes a link to a template form which can be completed on-line).
The Health & Safety Executive provides a useful, free of charge, downloadable HSE "example stress policy" document on its website.
A useful set of UK and US Tax forms from Frank Hirth, Accountants is available available for download from their website.
On-line versions of tribunal forms ET1 (employment tribunal claim form) and ET3 (employer's response) are available
On-line versions of Appeal and Respondent's Answer forms are available on the Employment Appeal Tribunal website
Appendices to the free 2009 TUPE Guide "Preparing and transferring services in the public and non-profit sectors" promoted by the CIPD contain various useful sample letters and documents in connection with service provision changes (see Transfer of business or undertaking/service provision change ).
Click for a downloadable official work permit application form WP1 (business and commercial) with accompanying guidance notes and/or here for the general UK Home Office website re work permit application forms. There is a separate UK Visas application form website for visa applications. For relevant notes in this program go to Immigration/work permits .
A complete list of Border & Immigration Agency immigration application forms for applications made on or after 29th February 2008 is available from the Home Office website.
Tribunal forms
from the forms section of the employment tribunal service web-site (see notes at Procedure of Employment Tribunals/forms and documents/official forms ).
TUPE
Work Permit and Visa application forms
Working Time. A useful FlowChart from Business Link re 48 hour week, including an opt-out pro forma. For relevant notes in this program go to Working Time Regulations/average 48 hour max working week .
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