To provide a fair and effective workplace, and avoid having an employment claim made against you, you should make sure you understand your employee’s rights at work.

For example, you must:

• Stick to what you have agreed in the employment contract.

• Pay any agreed bonus and commission payments.

• Ensure that any restrictive covenants are reasonable, and not too lengthy, or covering a wider area than is reasonable.

• Make sure that employees are not dismissed unfairly.

• Ensure that any redundancies are dealt with fairly and correctly.

• Make sure that your behaviour does not force an employee to leave work (constructive dismissal).

• Give the correct amount of notice if you dismiss an employee.