It is a common misconception that contracts of employment are simply a box-ticking exercise, designed to pay lip service to an employee’s day one right to have an employment contract.
When prepared correctly, a contract of employment serves as a business protection document, just as much as a shareholders’ agreement or your articles of association. The reason for this is that they record the functions of your employees, accepted standards of working in your business and the procedures to follow if things go wrong.
Ultimately, you will likely have employed someone because you need them to work in your business whilst you focus on running it. Having a clear, focused and precise written agreement to govern that relationship is therefore just as essential as an agreement that governs your relationship with your business partners, suppliers and, yes, your customers.
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