UK Employment Law\ Employer & Employee\ Offering New Terms
How to offer new terms to an employee.
An employer should offer new terms either orally or as a written document. At this point, an employee can either give a positive, unequivocal and unconditional acceptance or he/she can reject them. Though there is no particular way of accepting the offer laid down in law, an employee cannot be deemed to have given his/her acceptance by doing nothing. Inaction can only amount to accepting new terms if the contract of employment lays this down as one of the terms (ie: 'If you do not object in writing within 14 days you will be deemed to have accepted). On the other hand, it can be deemed that an employee has given his/her acceptance to new terms by manner of conduct. If the employee acts differently to comply with a new term, it will be assumed that he/she has accepted.
