Leaving aside the legal obligation that all employers have to give their employees written employment contracts which comply with section 1 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, there are a variety of good sound commercial reasons to ensure that your written employment contracts are truly fit for purpose.
Well drafted employment contracts can provide you as an employer with significant flexibility around how you are able to go about conducting your operations.
Business circumstances are now, once again, getting tougher, and many employers are finding that they need flexibility from their staff around working hours or shift patterns, place of work, and the wide variety of tasks or job roles that colleagues can be asked to perform. A well drafted employment contract can do all of this whilst, at the same time, enhancing your employer brand by serving as company documents which are both fair, and easy for colleagues to understand.
Many employers, finding themselves in an ever more competitive market place, are becoming increasingly concerned to securely protect their confidential information and customer/client connection. Well drafted post-employment restrictive covenants within the employment contracts can achieve this, but we see far too many employer contract templates that were drafted years ago, which simply don't achieve this purpose. This presents a huge and unnecessary risk to businesses, in circumstances where the cost of remedying that big risk is actually quite small.
Employment law and good HR practice changes regularly, so keeping your HR policies up-to-date makes good business sense. Not only will this keep you legally compliant, it will also ensure that your managers have a source of HR advice and documentation that they can really rely on to enable them to answer day to day HR related questions.
For non-retained clients, we provide fixed price employment contracts and HR policy drafting services which leave you with documentation that is bespoke to your business, enhances your employer brand, and which you can really trust. Our retained clients receive these benefits as part of their fixed price retained service.
Bespoke to your business, your contracts need to give you operational flexibility. But, just like your new staff handbook and HR policies, they also need to be clear and easy to follow. We can provide all the employment contract and policy documentation that you need, and for a fixed fee.
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