Employment Information Directive

The Employment Information Directive 91/553/EEC is an EU Directive which regulates European labour law for the purpose of making workers' contracts transparent.

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• art 1(2) member states can disapply the Directive for people (a) working under one month or with a working week under eight hours, or (b) with jobs ‘of a casual and/or specific nature’ if this is justified by objective considerations.
• art 2(1) obligation to notify an employee ‘of the essential aspects of the contract or employment relationship.’ (2) this covers at least (a) identity of parties (b) place of work or employer’s domicile (c) title, grade, category or nature of work, or a brief description of the work (d) commencement date (e) for temporary contracts, expected duration (f) paid leave (g) periods of notice or method for determining (h) initial pay (i) working time (j) where appropriate, the collective agreement or joint representation institutions. (3) leave, notice, pay and time can be given in the form of laws, regulations or collective agreements.
• art 3(1) the information can be in a written contract, letter of engagement or one or more written documents (2) if none of those given in the prescribed period, employer is obliged to give the art 2(2) information in two months (3) if the work ends in two months the information must be given by the end of the period
• art 4, expatriates need to be told duration abroad, currency, other benefits, conditions for repatriation
• art 5, modification must be made in writing available at least one month after
• art 6, form and proof of contracts are a matter of national law, which is not affected.
• art 7, more favourable provisions can be made
• art 8, employees must have a remedy available in their member state
• art 9, implementation by 1993

See also

• UK labour law

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