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Rather than just including the name of the person to whom the employee will report, it can be useful to insert a more detailed clause into employment contracts.
Reporting lines
Our Written Statement of Employment Particulars includes a clause enabling you to specify the person to whom the employee will report. Given that managers move on, you might wish to set out a position/job title here rather than the name of an actual person. If, however, you want to require a bit more from the employee under their reporting line, you can use our Reporting Line and Procedure Clause. To keep things flexible for you, our clause firstly provides for an alternative manager to be appointed as the employee’s line manager from time to time - whether that’s a different person (if you named a particular person) or someone with a different job title (if you specified a job title). This could either be temporarily or permanently and our clause enables this to be a manager of the same or a different management level to their current line manager. Do be careful though to ensure that any change of line manager doesn’t result in effectively demoting the employee if they’re then required to report to a less senior person, as this could expose you to an allegation that you’ve breached the implied term of mutual trust and confidence, and the employee might resign in response and claim constructive dismissal.
Reporting procedure
Our clause then goes on to set out a reporting procedure. Including this clause in employment contracts puts positive reporting obligations on the employee, so that you’re aware of what they’re up to. This means better supervision of their work and, if necessary, more chance to deal with any mistakes at an early stage. You’ll need to ensure though that you amend our clause if necessary to reflect your actual practice in terms of employee supervision. Our clause imposes four obligations on the employee, i.e. to: