Contracts of employment (March 2025)

Chapter 7

Unfair Contract Terms Act

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However wide and unfair an express variation term may be, there is no scope for any argument based on the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. In Commerzbank AG v Keen [2007] IRLR 132, the Court of Appeal confirmed that employees are not “consumers” and are therefore not covered by the act.


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