LRD guides and handbook March 2025

Contracts of employment

Chapter 7

Unfair Contract Terms Act

[page 57]

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.