About Employment Contract Generator
The particulars UK law requires on day one, sorted by the kind of engagement
What is on this site
One question, "employment contract template uk", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- The written statement of employment particulars, in full: The day-one list, the two-month list, the single-document rule and the difference between the statement and the contract itself. What section 1 actually requires.
- Employee, worker or contractor: the question the template cannot answer: Employment status decides which document is required and which rights attach. It is decided by what happens, not by what the contract is called.
- Zero hours contracts and the Employment Rights Act 2025: Zero hours workers get the full day-one statement. What the 2025 Act adds by its own section headings, and why commencement has to be checked rather than assumed.
- Probation periods: a day-one particular with conditions: Probation length and its conditions must be in the single day-one document. What conditions means, and the two clauses whose absence undoes the whole thing.
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Employment Contract Generator is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to gov.uk, Acas or any government body, and it is not a law firm or an employment adviser. Nothing here is legal advice on a particular hire, and this site does not produce a contract: it tells you which statutory particulars the engagement requires and by when, so that the document you commission or draft can be checked against them. Every requirement stated here is taken from the text of the Employment Rights Act 1996 on legislation.gov.uk or from the gov.uk guidance on written statements, read on the date shown at the top of the page. Where the Employment Rights Act 2025 is mentioned it is by its section headings as enacted; we do not state which of its provisions are in force, because that is set by commencement regulations and a page that asserted it would go stale without warning.