COMMENTED by
Employment Act 2002 c.22 (Note)

Employment Act 2002 c.22

Employment Act 2002

2002 Chapter 22

CONTENTS

PART 1

STATUTORY LEAVE AND PAY

CHAPTER 1

PATERNITY AND ADOPTION

Rights to leave and pay

Section

1 - Paternity leave

2 - Statutory paternity pay

3 - Adoption leave

4 - Statutory adoption pay

Administration and enforcement: pay

5 - General functions of the Board

6 - Financial arrangements

7 - Funding of employers' liabilities

8 - Regulations about payment

9 - Decisions and appeals

10 - Powers to require information

11 - Penalties: failures to comply

12 - Penalties: fraud etc.

13 - Supply of information held by the Board

14 - Supply of information held by the Secretary of State

15 - Use of information by the Board

16 - Interpretation

CHAPTER 2

MATERNITY

17 - Rights during and after maternity leave

18 - Maternity pay period

19 - Rate of statutory maternity pay

20 - Entitlement to statutory maternity pay

21 - Funding of employers' liabilities: statutory maternity pay

PART 2

TRIBUNAL REFORM

Costs and expenses

22 - Employment tribunals

23 - Employment Appeal Tribunal

Miscellaneous

24 - Conciliation

25 - Power to delegate prescription of forms etc.

26 - Determination without a hearing

27 - Practice directions

28 - Pre-hearing reviews

PART 3

DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETC.

Statutory procedures

29 - Statutory dispute resolution procedures

30 - Contracts of employment

31 - Non-completion of statutory procedure: adjustment of awards

32 - Complaints about grievances

33 - Consequential adjustment of time limits

34 - Procedural fairness in unfair dismissal

Employment particulars

35 - Particulars of procedures relating to discipline or dismissal

36 - Removal of exemption for small employers

37 - Use of alternative documents to give particulars

38 - Failure to give statement of employment particulars etc.

General

39 - Unfair dismissal: adjustments under sections 31 and 38

40 - Interpretation of Part 3

PART 4

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Miscellaneous

41 - Power to confer rights on individuals: amendment

42 - Equal pay: questionnaires

43 - Union learning representatives

44 - Dismissal procedures agreements

45 - Fixed-term work

46 - Fixed-term work: Northern Ireland

47 - Flexible working

48 - Rate of maternity allowance

49 - Work-focused interviews for partners

50 - Use of information for, or relating to, employment and training

General

51 - Orders and regulations

52 - Financial provisions

53 - Minor and consequential amendments

54 - Repeals and revocations

55 - Short title etc.

Schedule 1 - Penalties: procedure and appeals

Schedule 2 - Statutory dispute resolution procedures

Part 1 - Dismissal and disciplinary procedures

Part 2 - Grievance procedures

Part 3 - General requirements

Part 4 - Supplementary

Schedule 3 - Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 31 applies

Schedule 4 - Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 32 applies

Schedule 5 - Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 38 applies

Schedule 6 - Use of information for, or relating to, employment and training

Schedule 7 - Minor and consequential amendments

Schedule 8 - Repeals and revocations

An Act to make provision for statutory rights to paternity and adoption leave and pay; to amend the law relating to statutory maternity leave and pay; to amend the Employment Tribunals Act 1996; to make provision for the use of statutory procedures in relation to employment disputes; to amend the law relating to particulars of employment; to make provision about compromise agreements; to make provision for questionnaires in relation to equal pay; to make provision in connection with trade union learning representatives; to amend section 110 of the Employment Rights Act 1996; to make provision about fixed-term...

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