Employment Agreement
This Employment Agreement (the "Agreement") is made on Agreement date between Company name, of Company address (the "Company"), and Employee full name, of Employee address (the "Employee").
1. Role
- Job title: Job title
- Employment type: Employment type (full-time, part-time, fixed-term)
- Reports to: Reports to
- Start date: Start date
The Employee will do the duties that are normal for this role and other reasonable duties that the Company asks for. The Employee will give the job their full working time and effort. The Employee will follow the Company's lawful instructions and policies.
2. Place of work
The Employee's place of work is Place of work (office, remote, or hybrid). The Company may ask the Employee to work at another place for a short time, or to travel for work, with reasonable notice.
3. Hours of work
The Employee's normal working days and hours are Working days and hours. The Employee may need to work extra hours when the job needs it, in line with local law.
4. Pay
The Company will pay the Employee Annual salary (amount and currency) a year, paid How often you pay (e.g. monthly). The Company will deduct the tax and other amounts that the law requires. The Company will deduct nothing else unless the Employee agrees in writing.
The Company reviews pay each year. A review does not mean an automatic increase. The Company will repay business expenses that it approved, against receipts.
5. Benefits
The Employee may join these benefits, under the rules of each plan: Other benefits. The Company may change a plan or a policy. Where a plan is insured, the insurer's rules decide a claim.
6. Leave
- Paid leave: Paid leave (days a year) days a year, plus public holidays.
- Sick leave and family leave: as the law and Company policy provide.
The Employee will agree dates for leave with their manager in advance. The Company pays for leave that the Employee has earned but not taken when the employment ends, where the law requires it.
7. Probation
The first Probation period (months) months are a probation period. The Company will review the Employee's work during it and at the end. The Company may extend probation once, in writing, before it ends. The Employee's terms stay the same during probation, except for the notice in section 13.
8. Confidentiality
The Employee will keep the Company's confidential information private. This covers business plans, prices, customer data, source code, and anything else that is not public and that the Employee learns through the job. The Employee will use it only to do the job.
This section does not cover information that is public through no fault of the Employee, or the Employee's general skill and experience. It does not stop the Employee from speaking to a regulator or the police, or from telling anyone what the law says they may tell. These duties continue after the employment ends.
9. Intellectual property
Everything the Employee creates in the course of the job belongs to the Company. This includes code, designs, writing, data, and inventions. If the law does not give the Company the rights automatically, the Employee assigns them to the Company now. The Employee will sign any paper that the Company reasonably needs to protect them.
This section does not cover work that the Employee made in their own time, with their own resources, that has no link to the Company's business.
10. Outside work and conflicts
During the employment, the Employee will not take other paid work, or run a business, that competes with the Company or that harms the Employee's work, without the Company's written consent. The Employee will tell the Company about any conflict of interest.
11. After the employment
For Non-solicitation period after employment (months) months after the employment ends, the Employee will not:
- try to persuade the Company's employees to leave the Company; or
- try to take away customers that the Employee dealt with in their last 12 months.
This Agreement has no non-compete clause. This section applies only as far as the law of Country or state whose law applies allows.
12. Personal data
The Company will handle the Employee's personal data under the data protection law that applies, for pay, benefits, legal duties, and managing the job. The Company will give the Employee a privacy notice. The Employee will handle other people's personal data only as the Company allows and as the law requires.
13. Ending the employment
- During probation, either party may end the employment with 7 days' written notice.
- After probation, either party may end the employment with Notice to end the employment (days) days' written notice.
- The Company may pay salary instead of all or part of the notice.
- The Company may end the employment at once, without notice, for serious misconduct, after the Employee has had a fair chance to respond.
If a fixed term is stated in section 1, the employment ends at the end of that term unless both parties agree in writing to extend it.
14. Company property and handover
When the employment ends, or when the Company asks, the Employee will return all Company property and data and will hand over their work. The Employee will not keep copies of confidential information. The Company will pay all final pay that is due.
15. General
- This Agreement is the whole agreement between the parties on the job. It replaces earlier offers and talks.
- Any change must be in writing and signed by both parties.
- If a court finds a part of this Agreement unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
- The parties may sign electronically, and each signed copy is an original.
16. Governing law
The law of Country or state whose law applies governs this Agreement and any dispute about it. The courts of that place have exclusive jurisdiction.
Signed for the company by Signed for the company by, Signatory's job title.
Signatures
Company name
Signature: ____________________________
Date: ______________
Employee full name
Signature: ____________________________
Date: ______________