Employment law
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It is normal for many of the obligations of an employer to his employees to be unspoken and not formally set out in their employment contracts. The law requires employers to give employees a written statement of basic employment particulars (ERA 1996 s.1 but no contract will, or could, include every term governing the relationship of the employee and employer. Many terms will simply be "implied". Some of these obligations will be imposed by statute (eg the Equal Pay Act 1970 implies an "equality clause" into every agreement under which an individual is employed in Great Britain unless there is an express equality clause - see Eq PA 1970 s.1(1) and Sex .Others obligations can be implied by custom, common law or trade usage (eg a right not to work on bank holidays can be implied by "custom of the trade") and all employers have a common law duty to provide...

