Employment Contracts

Borneos can assist you with any of the following:

 

• directors' service agreements
  
  
• agreements for the provision of services by contractors,  see contractors, subcontractors and others
  
  
• contracts with non-executive directors
  
  
• staff employment contracts
  
  
• workforce agreements and collective agreements
  
  
• employment handbooks to include, for example:

   

• disciplinary and grievance procedures
• computer use, email and internet policies
• absence and sick pay provisions and procedures
• holiday booking procedures and calculation of holiday entitlement
• procedures relating to company cars and other company property
• claiming for expenses incurred for work
• confidentiality agreements
• training cost recovery agreements. 
  
  

The Employment Rights Act 1996, requires that all employees should receive a “written statement of particulars of employment” no later than two months after their employment starts.

The statement of particulars must contain specific terms: 
 

• the names and details of the employer and the employee
  
  
• the date when the employment began and, if different, when the period of continuous employment began
  
  
• details of pay - methods of calculating pay and pay intervals
  
  
• hours of work, holiday entitlements and details of sick pay
  
  
• pension scheme details (if any)
  
  
• notice provisions and whether the employment is for a known duration fixed term or not
  
  
• job title or brief description of the work
  
  
• details of any collective agreements affecting the employment
  
  
• details of the normal place of work and of requirements to work abroad
  
  
• details of grievance and disciplinary procedures or where these procedures can be located .
  
  
  

We advise however, that these statutory requirements do not provide enough detail for terms of employment and that more detailed contracts should be used in addition to the statement of particulars. Additional important details you might also require in your staff contracts are:

 

• additional employee benefits such as an entitlement to overtime pay, a company car, company pension scheme, private health care and life insurance
  
  
• the length of any probationary period
  
  
• additional obligations on the employee for the protection of your business covering confidential information and intellectual property (copyright, inventions, designs) and post termination restrictive covenants
  
  
• circumstances entitling you to terminate the contract on notice and without notice, 'garden leave' and/or payment-in-lieu of notice
  
  
• agreement from the employee to a deduction from wages in specified circumstances
  
  
• the chain of command and possibly also the company structure
  
  
• any arrangements for maternity or paternity leave or flexible working arrangements which enhance the statutory entitlements
  
  
• the right to search employees and monitor or record for training and/or security reasons
  
  
• the right to lay off staff for a period of time in the event of a downturn in business.
  
  
  

Borneos welcomes the opportunity to review your existing employment documentation and/or to produce for you appropriate, bespoke contracts and policy documents. Terms can be tailored to suit your business and to fit each specific job description within your business. We are experienced in dealing with contracts and service agreements for all levels of director and employee and all sizes of organisation. Or team has specific experience in a variety of manufacturing and service industries and the breadth of our knowledge will be of benefit to your organisation.

 

 

If you would like to discuss how we might help you, please:

 

• call any of our office numbers listed at the bottom of this page;
• contact one of our specialists direct by clicking on their name below; or
• complete our enquiry form

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Members of our team specialising in this area:

Rosine Dawson, Andrew Peck, Mark Thompson

Sandra Martins, Elish McKee