Breach of contract solicitors: what to do if your employment contract is verbal?

Marlow-solicitors

Breach of contract solicitors: what to do if your employment contract is verbal? In our last post, we talked about breach of contract, and how an employment contract is a legally binding contract. But did you know that even if an employer fails to give an employee a written contract of employment, a contract can […]

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