Guys I'm very confused. UK here, my gf's got a new job recently, seems fine but she hasn't signed a contract when she started working?? Sounds weird to me, never heard of this before. She barely had an interview before her “trial day” to know what the pay is (minimum wage), and after the same it was just an informal “so, coming back tomorrow?”. “It's not in our company policy” that's what they say… what company policy? Are there company policies? Would be nice to know because there's that piece of paper with all the important stuff missing from my hands. And yet my gf is working right now, having no idea whatsoever how do holidays work, or how does her pension work, doesn't even know if she can change her status to “employed”. She's still getting paid, that's not a problem, but how do you assure it's fair, if one day happens it's not?