An employer can less easily terminate an apprentice than other employees. An oral apprenticeship contract is enfoirceable, but only once it is acted upon.
Citations:
[1996] IRLR 435
Cited by:
Cited – Whitely v Marton Electrical Ltd EAT 27-Sep-2002
The applicant had been employed by the respondent under a modern apprenticeship contract. The employer dismissed him during the term, after a downturn in work.
Held: Though the contract was subject to the employer’s standard terms, it remained . .
Cited – Edmonds v Lawson, Pardoe, and Del Fabbro CA 10-Mar-2000
A contract of apprenticeship is synallagmatic. The master undertakes to educate and train the apprentice (or pupil) in the practical and other skills needed to practise a skilled trade (or learned profession) and the apprentice (or pupil) binds . .
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Employment
Updated: 28 April 2022; Ref: scu.181812