![Headshot of Helen Ruelle](/media/a5kpeso2/helen-ruelle.jpg?cc=0.22947275507434747,0.06734997847770981,0.17283693593688843,0.3343362696040274&width=1440&height=960&quality=90)
Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services | Legal
Jersey
![Headshot of Helen Ruelle](/media/a5kpeso2/helen-ruelle.jpg?cc=0.3172780489034431,0.07001502980408142,0.2693344004168525,0.309256845470398&width=300&height=300&quality=90)
Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services
Jersey
Big things are happening at Ogier. Change is embedded in everything we do. It is redefining our talent, our ways of working, our platforms of delivery, our culture.
Services
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
Sectors
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
We have the expertise to handle the most demanding transactions. Our commercial understanding and experience of working with leading financial institutions, professional advisers and regulatory bodies means we add real value to clients’ businesses.
Legal
Corporate and Fiduciary
Consulting
Banking and Finance
Corporate
Dispute Resolution
Employment law
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds
Listing services
Local Legal Services
Accounting and Financial Reporting Services - Ogier Global
Cayman Islands AML/CFT training - Ogier Global
Corporate Services - Ogier Global
Regulatory and Compliance Services - Ogier Global
Sustainable Investment Consulting
Our sector approach relies on smart collaboration between teams who have a deep understanding of related businesses and industry dynamics. The specific combination of our highly informed experts helps our clients to see around corners.
Ogier provides practical advice on BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law through our global network of offices across the Asian, Caribbean and European timezones. Ogier is the only firm to advise on this unique combination of laws.
Keep up to date with industry insights, analysis and reviews. Find out about the work of our expert teams and subscribe to receive our newsletters straight to your inbox.
Fresh thinking, sharper opinion.
We get straight to the point, managing complexity to get to the essentials. Our global network of offices covers every time zone.
About us
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Information security
Innovation
Sustainability
No Content Set
Exception:
Website.Models.ViewModels.Components.General.Banners.BannerComponentVm
News
30 November 2016
Jersey
Islanders on "exclusive zero hours contracts" may be able to rely on the protection of the Royal Court until changes to employment laws which were agreed in principle by the States a fortnight ago come into force, according to Ogier's Director of Local Legal Services.
Helen Ruelle says that while the States of Jersey have taken the in-principle decision to follow the UK in banning exclusive zero-hour contracts, it may be some time before any legislative change comes into force.
In the meantime, she says, Islanders who feel that they are being exploited under exclusive zero hour contracts – under which they are not guaranteed any hours by an employer, but are barred from taking up other employment opportunities – should take advice on whether principles confirmed in a Royal Court judgment last year puts their position in a different light.
In its decision in Marchem v Carre the Royal Court held that an exclusive zero hours contract can (in certain circumstances) create an effective employment contract, extending to the worker full employment rights under the Employment (Jersey) Law.
Helen said: "Islanders on zero-hours contracts can take reassurance from the Royal Court's decision in Marchem v Carre. In that case it was held that where a zero hours contract has a 'mutuality of obligations', a formal employment contract can be found to exist.
"On the facts in Marchem the Royal Court overturned a Tribunal finding in favour of the employee it remitted the case back. However, the principles were confirmed and the Court's confirmation of those principles means in practice that exclusive zero-hours contracts do not work in Jersey – anyone on a zero-hours contract with an exclusivity clause is likely to have an employment contract under the law because the employee is obliged only to work for that employer.
"This brings all of the protection that the law offers a permanent employee such as paid holiday entitlement, protection from unfair dismissal and the right to redundancy compensation."
Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services | Legal
Jersey
Helen Ruelle
Director of Local Legal Services
Jersey
Contact Helen
Back
Rachel DeSanges
Head of Employment, Guernsey | Legal
Guernsey, London
Rachel DeSanges
Head of Employment, Guernsey
Guernsey, London
Contact Rachel
Back
Will Austin-Vautier
Counsel | Legal
Jersey
Will Austin-Vautier
Counsel
Jersey
Contact Will
Back
Laura Shirreffs
Senior Associate | Legal
Jersey
Laura Shirreffs
Senior Associate
Jersey
Contact Laura
Back
Sign up to receive updates and newsletters from us.
Sign up
No Content Set
Exception:
Website.Models.ViewModels.Blocks.SiteBlocks.CookiePolicySiteBlockVm