If your employer wants to change a term in your contract, this is called a 'variation of contract'. Your employer should only make a change to your contract if at least one of these applies: you agree to the change your contract says your employer can make certain changes - this is called a 'variation clause' the law is changing - for example if you get the National Minimum Wage and the rate changes If you get a new employer because the company is sold, or because a service you work in transfers to a new employer, this is called a TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment)...

Your employment contract is your legal agreement with your employer. It includes things like what your job is, how you’ll do your work and what your employer will pay you. Your employer should give you an employment contract document called a 'written statement'. Your written statement will include some of the terms of your employment contract, but there might be other terms. Terms will also be in your contract if: they’re in other information your employer sends you - like an email or the job advert you verbally agreed them with your employer The law also says you have a number...

It is important that you find out what your employment status is and understand how it affects your rights.  There are 3 main employment statuses: employee worker self-employed If you're an employee, you have rights at work. If you're a worker, you'll also have rights at work but not as many as an employee. If you’re self-employed, you usually only have the rights your contract says you have. Your employment status depends on what actually happens when you're at work. That might not be the same as what your contract says about your status.  An employer might try to call you ‘self-employed’...