employment contract

Many special advisers worked for weeks without being shown a proposed employment contract, meaning that by the time they discovered what their salary would be they had essentially no choice but to accept it.

BBC News staff I’ve spoken to, including senior people, do not believe that the civil enforcement of an employment contract would have kept him in his job, when the allegations were so serious.

Leiden announced the report’s main findings on 25 April, adding that it had started a procedure to terminate Hofman’s employment contract.

The requests included employment history for two town employees, copies of resignation letters and the former town manager’s employment contract.

The tribunal ruled that neither Mr Fearn nor Ms Murphy had been given proper employment contracts.