Employment Contracts

Employment Contracts and documents from contracts of employment to job offer letters. With our employment law resource you can cost effectively manage your own employment documents

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	Employment Contract Template Our Contract of Employment template designed for use with full time and part time employees of a business and is easily customised to your business' needs.	£9.95 Read more »
	Compromise Agreement Our Compromise Agreement Template for use by a business settling all claims between itself and a departing employee.	£19.95 Read more »
	Consultancy Agreement A Consultancy Agreement template for use by a business that wants to take on a consultant and wants to document the relationship in a contract.	£24.95 Read more »
	Job Offer Letter Our Job Offer Template for use when making an offer of employment to a potential employee.	£2.95 Read more »

Employment Contracts and Contracts of Employment

Welcome to our employment law section. This section of our website focuses on employment contracts and employment documents such as our contract of employment template and other key employment documents and contracts. It is a legal requirement that all employers put in place at least a written statement of terms for their employees.

Employment Services for Business

Whether you are just starting out in a small business venture, or have a larger, more established company, we can provide you with a range of practical guides and downloadable documents. What’s more, our step by step instructions will help you complete the document and understand exactly what you are including within it. We help you to understand the jargon that many legal documents are littered with, for example, should you download an employment contract, you will be able to discuss and explain it to an employee confidently with no need to seek expensive legal advice from a solicitor.

Employment Contracts and Agreements

By law, every employee must be provided with their basic terms and conditions of employment. In this section you can select from a range of contracts of employment, from a simple Section 1 statement of terms and conditions of employment which will cover all the basic terms and conditions of employment, ideal for lower level employees, to broader contracts of employment for more senior employees. This section covers important aspects of an employment contract and gives guidance on the best choices for your business needs, including provisions for confidentiality of trade secrets with our restrictive covenants which can also help prevent employees from competing with your company.

Employee Handbook

The employee handbook is a separate document to the contract of employment and sets out protocol for certain aspects of employment. As it is a separate document the employer is not bound by the terms set out in it but can cover things like the company’s disciplinary and grievance procedures as well as confidentiality and policies on harassment in the workplace.

Service Agreement

If you engage the services of another business to carry out a certain type of work for your company then this document will provide the terms and conditions to that business undertaking the work.

Consultancy Agreement

As with the service agreement, this is used when you are not employing someone, merely engaging their services. This agreement can be used when engaging services from an IT consultant, and can be tailored to include the salient points of the terms upon which the work will be undertaken.

Compromise Agreement

If you are seeking to terminate an employee’s contract of employment without the risk of that employee pursuing a claim against you in the Employment Tribunal, the compromise agreement is the only document that can achieve this. Once signed by both parties, the employee is agreeing to waive all their rights to bring a claim for unfair dismissal in the Employment Tribunal (provided that employee has received independent legal advice and the advisor has countersigned the agreement). Our downloadable compromise agreement is designed to protect your company’s position including the employee’s post termination restrictions and obligations (express and implied). We also include an optional tax indemnity clause in order that the employee has to indemnify the company for any tax due on the compensation sums paid.

Redundancy Guide and template letters

If you need to reduce your workforce due to a downturn in business or for any other reason, it is essential that you follow a proper redundancy procedure. Our guide helps you through each stage of the process, providing template letters to send to employees “at risk” of redundancy, advice on the period of consultation that will follow and details on how to draw up selection criteria on which to score the employees, and eventually select those for redundancy. Considering the cost of an Employment Tribunal hearing for unfair dismissal (a two day hearing could cost upwards of £5,000.00 with little chance of recovering costs from the losing party), it is important that the redundancy procedure is carried out fairly and correctly to reduce the risk of expensive litigation.

Disciplinary and grievance procedure guide and template letters

This is an area in which the rules have recently changed (April 2009) and therefore, whether you are a new business or a more established business, this section will provide valuable guidance on how to carry out investigations, the template letters to be sent to the employee as well as timescales to provide the employee with the results of any such meetings/investigations.
Employment Services for Individuals

This section is for employees and contains guides and information on different aspects of employment.
Employee Contracts

As an employee you are legally entitled to, at the very least, a Section 1 statement of terms and conditions of employment. This section outlines the terms that the statement should include and also provides standard clauses contained within contracts of employment and explains what each means to you as an employee so you understand what is expected of you.
Employee Grievance Procedure

This section contains a template letter for an employee to lodge a grievance with its employer as well as basic advice about the procedure.

Bringing a Claim in the Employment Tribunal

This section relates to form ET1, for an employee (or ex-employee) to lodge a claim in the Employment Tribunal and the procedure that follows. It gives advice on what should be included in the ET1 and the kinds of timescales you should expect. This section also gives advice on how to make a claim under any legal expenses insurance policy you