There is no right to a written contract. However, it is safer all round to make sure a written
contract is in place.

Employees are, though, entitled to a written Statement of Employment which is not the same
thing at all. This is a very simple document containing the very bare bones of your terms of
employment, and should be provided by employers within 2 months of the employment starting.

If you have a job, you should have a Statement of Employment. You haven't? Why doesn't that
surprise us?

Just because you do not have a written contract does not mean you do not have a contract of
employment. You do. It consists of what you do at work. If you are employed to lay paving slabs
in Liverpool for forty hours a week, your employer cannot change that job to clearing litter in
Leeds for twenty hours a week. That would be a breach of contract, unless you agreed to it.

If an agreement is made to vary the terms of a contract of employment, those variations
should be confirmed in writing, by an employer, within one month of the variation being agreed.

An employer cannot force you to change the terms of your contract of employment unless you
agree.