Module 1 · Chapter 3

Probation, Duties, Place and Hours of Work

A new rule makes the first months of a job matter more. How the contract sets a safe probation, and how it fixes the job, the place of work and the hours.

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In this chapter

  • Why probation must end at 6 months, and the last safe day to give notice
  • How the Contract sets her duties and her office and home days
  • How extra hours and the 48-hour opt-out work

3.1Probation and working time in one paragraph

Clauses 4 to 7 of the Contract set the first months of Esme’s job and its everyday shape. Clause 4 makes her first 6 months a probation, a trial period with one week’s notice either side. Clauses 5 to 7 fix what she does, where she works and for how long. From 2027 the law lets an employee claim unfair dismissal after 6 months, so probation must do its work inside that time.

Key point

Cressby must decide about Esme inside her first 6 months. After that the law protects her from unfair dismissal, whatever the Contract calls the period.

Also in this chapter

  1. Probation and the six-month line
  2. Why the probation cannot be extended
  3. What the job includes
  4. Office days and home days
  5. Extra hours and the 48-hour opt-out
  6. Your job

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