Section 59, The Employment Act, 2023

(1) A worker shall be entitled to receive from his employer,notice in writing of the following particulars of employment, including (a) the full names and addresses of the parties to the contract of employment; (b) the date on which employment under the contract begins, specifying the date from which the worker’s period of continuous service shall commence; (c) the title and description of the job the worker is employed to do; (d) the place where the worker’s duties are to be performed; (e) the wages which the worker is entitled to receive or the means by which they can be calculated, and in either case the intervals at which they will be paid and the deductions or other conditions to which they will be subject; (f) the rates of overtime pay applicable to the worker; (g) the worker’s normal hours of work and the shifts or days of the week on which the work is to be performed; (h) the number of days’ annual leave to which the worker is entitled and his entitlement to wages during such leave; (i) the terms or conditions relating to incapacity for work due to sickness or injury, including provision for sick pay; (j) the length of notice in excess of that provided by this Act, required for lawful termination of the contract by the employer or worker; (k) any collective agreement affecting the terms and conditions of the worker’s employment; (l) any disciplinary rules applicable to the Loan by employer to worker. Work stores. Written particulars of 38 39 (2) For any or all of the information required by subsection (1), the employer may in writing refer the worker to a document which is reasonably accessible to the worker during working hours at the place of work and which contains the relevant information in a form and in a language that the worker can reasonably be expected to understand. (3) A notice of particulars of employment under subsection (1) shall be given by the employer to the worker not later than 12 weeks after the date on which employment commences. (4) Where there has been an agreed change affecting any of the particulars of employment under subsection (1), an employer shall issue a written notice of the change to the worker, within a period of 4 weeks of the change taking effect. (5) An employer shall retain a copy of the written particulars of employment issued under subsection (1), and of any changes thereto, and shall produce such copy on demand to the Commissioner, trade union or the High Court. (6) In a dispute between an employer and a worker concerning the terms and conditions of employment, the written particulars of employment referred to in subsection (1) together with any notice of change thereto, shall be admissible evidence of the existence of the terms and conditions about which there is dispute, and there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the terms and conditions of employment are accurately stated in the written particulars and in any notified changes thereto.