Legal Glossary
As an employer you will encounter many legal terms, abbreviations and jargon when dealing with employment law issues and procedures.
This employment law legal glossary provides a brief explanation of many of the more common (and some not quite so common) employment law legal terms. We have used a 'text-book' type legally correct definition.
Simply click on each of the employment law terms below for a brief explanation of each.
For a more straightforward explanation of how these terms may affect you, please feel free to contact us or use the Ask an Expert function found at the top of this page.
- Additional adoption leave (AAL)
- Additional maternity leave (AML)
- Additional paternity leave (APL)
- Basic award
- Capability
- Compromise agreement
- Compulsory maternity leave
- Default Retirement Age (DRA)
- Direct discrimination
- Disability Discrimination
- Employment Contract
- Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA)
- Employment Tribunal
- Equality Act 2010
- ET1
- ET3
- Flexible working
- Gross misconduct
- Harassment
- Implied term
- Indirect discrimination
- Information and consultation agreement (I & C agreement)
- Jurisdiction
- Keeping in touch days
- Maternity allowance
- Maternity leave
- Maternity pay
- Notice of appeal
- Notice Period
- Ordinary adoption leave (OAL)
- Ordinary maternity leave (OML)
- Ordinary paternity leave
- Parental leave
- Paternity leave
- PILON (Pay in lieu of notice clause)
- Protected characteristic
- Qualifying period
- Reasonable adjustment
- Redundancy
- Response form
- Restrictive covenant
- Statutory adoption leave (SAL)
- Statutory adoption pay (SAP)
- Statutory maternity leave
- Statutory maternity pay (SMP)
- Statutory paternity leave (SPL)
- Statutory paternity pay (SPP)
- Statutory redundancy payment (SRP)
- Statutory sick pay (SSP)
- TUPE
- Unfair dismissal
- Victimisation
- Whistleblowing
- Wrongful dismissal
- Zero hours contract
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