UK Contract Termination Guide

As an employer, you should always check you have reasonable grounds to terminate a contract first. Then, you’ll need to write and serve a termination notice, which is normally a written document.

At a minimum, employers must give employees at least the statutory notice period. If an employee has worked for you for at least one month, the statutory notice is one whole week. This increases to 1 week for each full year they have worked if your employee has been with you for two years or longer, capping out at 12 weeks for a 12-year period. 

You can only do so in cases where gross misconduct has occurred, such as theft or violence. That being said, you will still need to provide evidence of the employee’s misconduct in order to give them the opportunity to respond before making any decisions.