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Employment Contract

Use it when taking on an employee (also acts as the written statement of particulars).

Not sure it is the right one? Read Employee, worker or contractor? Picking the right contract.

  • About 6 pages
  • 32 drafting notes in the margin
  • 15 clauses
  • Word (.docx)
  • England and Wales

What is in it

  1. Definitions and interpretation
  2. Job, start date and probation
  3. Place and hours of work
  4. Pay, expenses and benefits
  5. Holiday
  6. Sickness absence
  7. Other leave
  8. Confidentiality
  9. Intellectual property
  10. Data protection and company systems
  11. Other work and conflicts
  12. Ending employment
  13. Restrictive covenants
  14. Policies, disciplinary and grievance
  15. General

Plus a schedule of the commercial details and signature blocks where the document needs them.

Read the opening

The first part of the template, as it reads in Word. Blanks are shown as lines; the drafting notes sit in the margin of the file.

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

This Employment Contract (the “Contract”) is made on ____________________ between:

(1) ____________________ LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (registration number ____________) whose registered office is at ______________________________________________ (the “Company”); and

(2) ____________________ of ______________________________________________ (the “Employee”).

The Parties agree as follows:

1. Definitions and interpretation

“Business”: the business carried on by the Company from time to time, as described in Schedule 1.

“Business Day”: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in England.

“Confidential Information”: has the meaning given in clause 8.1.

“Intellectual Property Rights”: patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, moral rights, trade marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up, goodwill, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and all other intellectual property rights, whether registered or unregistered, anywhere in the world.

How it works

  1. Pay by card. The download starts at once and the link keeps working.
  2. Open the Word file. Fill in the blanks, pick the options marked with boxes, read each note in the margin.
  3. Delete the notes and the notice box, then sign. Or send it to us for a fixed-fee check first.

Word template

£39 Instant download

One-off. No account needed. VAT not charged.

Or fill it in online (platform plan)
  • Drafted by a solicitor for England and Wales
  • Drafting notes explain every choice
  • Instant download, link works again later
  • £50 off a fixed-fee review once filled in (from £99)

Part of a pack

Hiring pack, £79

5 documents for taking on your first people.

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Complete template library, £299

All 40 documents, with the index and guide.