When and how can I make changes?
You might need to make changes to an employee's contract to:
- Better reflect their role (e.g. changing their job title or responsibilities)
- Update their employment terms and conditions (e.g. if you're introducing enhanced maternity leave and pay)
- Change their working hours (e.g. if you're combining multiple part-time roles into a full-time role)
- Change their working location (e.g. if the employee is moving to a different school in your multi-academy trust)
- To account for a TUPE transfer (in which case you'll be restricted on how you can make changes - read more here)
- In response to a flexible working request - read more about this here
You can change an employee's contract if:
- There is a 'flexibility clause' in it that allows the employer to do so (read more in the grey box below)
- The employee agrees to the change; or
- The employer ends the employee's current contract and then re-engages them under a new contract
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