Question about Scottish employment law?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at
1:17 am
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Dave Spart asked:
There is currently a rumour at my company that the senior management intend to try to force a few long-term employees, who are employed on better terms than those who started after mid-2003, to either agree to sign a current standard contract or resign. This would mean accepting a salary cut of about £1500, fewer holidays, and a few other changes resulting in poorer terms and conditions.
There is currently a rumour at my company that the senior management intend to try to force a few long-term employees, who are employed on better terms than those who started after mid-2003, to either agree to sign a current standard contract or resign. This would mean accepting a salary cut of about £1500, fewer holidays, and a few other changes resulting in poorer terms and conditions.
My questions are:
Is this legal?
Would this constitute grounds to claim constructive dismissal?
If someone was sacked for refusing to either sign or resign, could they make a claim for unfair dismissal?
My employer’s head office is based in England but the office concerned is in Scotland.