No Contract, Legal implications for employer

REDZ

Hi
A friend of mine works in a consultancy, producing lots of reports etc..He has no contract despite working there for over a year. I know that its a breach of employers regulations to have staff past 6 months without a contract.
What i'm wondering is who owns all his work?

Wishbone Ash

REDZ wrote:

He has no contract despite working there for over a year. I know that its a breach of employers regulations to have staff past 6 months without a contract

There is no legal obligation for an employer to provide a written contract (althought most do). The fact that your friend is working there is a contract of employment in itself.

However, under the Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 and 2001 the employer is obliged to provide an employee with a written statement of terms of employment within the first 2 months of the commencement of employment.

blorg

His employer would own the copyright on work that he does in the course of his employment. Only exception would be if he had a contract that specifically specified otherwise (very unusual.)