Section 27BF: Information about rights conferred by Chapter 2

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2A: Zero hours workers and similar — Chapter 2: Right to guaranteed hours

An employer who employs a worker who it is reasonable to consider might become a qualifying worker of the employer in relation to a reference period (whether the initial reference period, or a subsequent reference period, as defined in section 27BA) must take reasonable steps, within the initial information period, to ensure that the worker is aware of specified information relating to the rights conferred on workers by this Chapter.

An employer who is subject to the duty in subsection (1) in relation to a worker must take reasonable steps to ensure that, after the end of the initial information period, the worker continues to have access to the specified information referred to in that subsection at all times when—

the worker is employed by the employer, and
it is reasonable to consider that the worker might become (or might again become) a qualifying worker of the employer in relation to a reference period.

"The initial information period", in relation to a worker and the worker's employer, means the period of two weeks beginning with—

where the worker is employed by the employer on the day on which section 27BA(1) comes into force ("the commencement day"), the commencement day, or
where the worker is not so employed, the first day after the commencement day on which the worker is employed by the employer.

But where, on the day referred to in subsection (3)(a) or (b), it was not reasonable to consider that the worker might become a qualifying worker of the employer in relation to any reference period, subsection (3) is to be read as if it provided for "the initial information period" to mean the period of two weeks beginning with the day on which it becomes reasonable so to consider.

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