LRD guides and handbook November 2014

Unfair dismissal - a legal guide for union reps

Chapter 9

Failure to provide written terms and conditions of employment

[ch 9: page 84]

An employer who, at the time the unfair dismissal claim was launched, was in breach of the duty to give the employee a written statement of employment particulars (section 2 ERA 96) must pay an extra two to four weeks’ pay (subject to the statutory cap on a week’s pay of £464 (2014-15)).