Stewardship has joined forces with Anthony Collins solicitors LLP to produce this employment pack for churches. The pack includes a model contract of employment together with various policies, procedures and explanatory notes. The full pack also includes a model occupancy agreement with explanatory notes. The aims of the pack are to ensure that your church employs its workers in a way that is consistent with its constitution; explain the main options available to your church as an employer; help you choose the most appropriate terms on which to employ; give you confidence to be able to agree reasonable terms of service in a cost effective way; and help you avoid the potential pitfalls of employment law.
Topics included:
- Model contract of employment for a church worker
- Self-certificate for sickness absence
- Model church worker disciplinary procedure
- Model church worker grievance procedure
- Model church worker code of conduct
- Model church worker employees expenses policy
- Model church worker diversity, equity and inclusion statement
- Model church worker carer’s leave policy
- Model church worker time off for dependent’s policy
- Model church worker parental leave policy
- Model church worker maternity leave policy
- Model church worker paternity leave policy
- Model church worker adoption leave policy
- Model church worker shared parental leave (birth) policy
- Model church worker shared parental leave (adoption/surrogacy)
- Model church worker parental bereavement leave policy
- Model church worker flexible working policy
- Model church whistleblowing policy
- Model church health and safety at work policy
- Model anti-harassment and bullying policy
- Model data protection policy
- Explanatory notes for the model contract of employment for a church worker
- Model service occupancy agreement
Last updated March 2024.