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Employment Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 22

CONTENTS

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  1. Part 1

    Statutory leave and pay

    1. Chapter 1

      Paternity and adoption

      1. Rights to leave and pay

        1. 1. Paternity leave

        2. 2. Statutory paternity pay

        3. 3. Adoption leave

        4. 4. Statutory adoption pay

      2. Administration and enforcement: pay

        1. 5. General functions of the Board

        2. 6. Financial arrangements

        3. 7. Funding of employers' liabilities

        4. 8. Regulations about payment

        5. 9. Decisions and appeals

        6. 10. Powers to require information

        7. 11. Penalties: failures to comply

        8. 12. Penalties: fraud etc.

        9. 13. Supply of information held by the Board

        10. 14. Supply of information held by the Secretary of State

        11. 15. Use of information by the Board

        12. 16. Interpretation

    2. Chapter 2

      Maternity

      1. 17. Rights during and after maternity leave

      2. 18. Maternity pay period

      3. 19. Rate of statutory maternity pay

      4. 20. Entitlement to statutory maternity pay

      5. 21. Funding of employers' liabilities: statutory maternity pay

  2. Part 2

    Tribunal reform

    1. Costs and expenses

      1. 22. Employment tribunals

      2. 23. Employment Appeal Tribunal

    2. Miscellaneous

      1. 24. Conciliation

      2. 25. Power to delegate prescription of forms etc.

      3. 26. Determination without a hearing

      4. 27. Practice directions

      5. 28. Pre-hearing reviews

  3. Part 3

    Dispute resolution etc.

    1. Statutory procedures

      1. 29. Statutory dispute resolution procedures

      2. 30. Contracts of employment

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

      4. 32. Complaints about grievances

      5. 33. Consequential adjustment of time limits

      6. 34. Procedural fairness in unfair dismissal

    2. Employment particulars

      1. 35. Particulars of procedures relating to discipline or dismissal

      2. 36. Removal of exemption for small employers

      3. 37. Use of alternative documents to give particulars

      4. 38. Failure to give statement of employment particulars etc.

    3. General

      1. 39. Unfair dismissal: adjustments under sections 31 and 38

      2. 40. Interpretation of Part 3

  4. Part 4

    Miscellaneous and general

    1. Miscellaneous

      1. 41. Power to confer rights on individuals: amendment

      2. 42. Equal pay: questionnaires

      3. 43. Union learning representatives

      4. 44. Dismissal procedures agreements

      5. 45. Fixed-term work

      6. 46. Fixed-term work: Northern Ireland

      7. 47. Flexible working

      8. 48. Rate of maternity allowance

      9. 49. Work-focused interviews for partners

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

    2. General

      1. 51. Orders and regulations

      2. 52. Financial provisions

      3. 53. Minor and consequential amendments

      4. 54. Repeals and revocations

      5. 55. Short title etc.

    1. Schedule 1

      Penalties: procedure and appeals

    2. Schedule 2

      Statutory dispute resolution procedures

      1. Part 1

        Dismissal and disciplinary procedures

      2. Part 2

        Grievance procedures

      3. Part 3

        General requirements

      4. Part 4

        Supplementary

    3. Schedule 3

      Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 31 applies

    4. Schedule 4

      Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 32 applies

    5. Schedule 5

      Tribunal jurisdictions to which section 38 applies

    6. Schedule 6

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

    7. Schedule 7

      Minor and consequential amendments

    8. 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 work; to make provision about flexible working; to amend the law relating to maternity allowance; to make provision for work-focused interviews for partners of benefit claimants; to make provision about the use of information for, or relating to, employment and training; and for connected purposes.

[8th July 2002]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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