Employment Contracts and Agreement

What is an employment contract/agreement? 

In the UK, an employment contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee on his or her employment conditions, rights, and duties within the workplace. It signifies a legal ‘relationship’ between an employer and an employee.

If you are an employer, you need to have proper employment contracts that meet legal requirements for your employees. If not, it can deter effective management of your business. Although an employment contract does not always have to be in a written form, you must still be able to provide your employees with a written statement of the main terms at the beginning of work (also called the ‘written statement of employment particulars’).

What is included in an employment contract? 

This written statement must at least include information on the start date, payment, hours of work, job responsibilities, holiday entitlement, location of work, probation period, other benefits, and obligatory training.

You may also consider adding terms that will protect your business even after the employee leaves, such as post-termination restrictive clauses that will prevent your former employee from working for a competitor.

How can Sharper Labs Legal Team help? 

Creating effective employment contracts may be a very tiresome and burdensome task, especially when you have to consider all the statutory requirements, implied customs, and specific employment conditions.

Sharper Labs Legal Team is here to provide expert legal advice on drafting your employment contracts. We review existing contracts to see if they meet basic conditions and point out any source of a potential issue, or help to update and draft new ones for incoming employees. To save time for you, the Legal Team also works with our HR Team to organize and manage all of your contracts (https://sharper-labs.com/).

There may be workplace disputes arising due to a breach of contract. With the help of our HR team, we will already be familiar with your employment contracts, meaning that we can provide an effective and quick response to any complaints raised against the contracts.