Contracts are key for employer and employee

Owners of any size of business and their human resources representatives should understand just how important contracts of employment are to both themselves and their employees. Whilst no one would enter in to a financial or rental arrangement without a contract being signed and agreed by both parties, neither ought employers to offer positions or employees accept them without similar agreements in writing. Additionally, company handbooks support the specific employment information detailed in contracts.

In the litigious culture that exists in many aspects of life besides in employment law, it is unsurprising, yet still a little shocking, that employment tribunal situations arise time and time again due to basic contractual errors and omissions. Many large companies are often savvy with watertight contracts and handbooks. However, small and medium sized businesses in particular can be prone to, and consequently bitten by, insufficient contracts and word of mouth agreements that go horribly wrong. They can also lack the knowledge and expertise necessary to know that they are endangering both themselves and their team members.

Contracts and handbooks are so imperatively important to both parties because they lay out in black and white terms the legal obligations of both in terms of duties, holidays, hours, pay and other terms and conditions of employment. In short, they are individual and role specific. When contracts reference further information contained in company handbooks, this information, too, becomes contractually binding. Hence, it becomes equally as important that the information included in handbooks is complementary to that included in contracts and that nothing is conflicting or misleading.

At NorthgateArinso Employer Services, we are time honoured and served specialists in outsourced employment law and human resources matters. Resultantly, we understand that business owners may lack both the specific knowledge and the time to personally address the issues they know require attention. We can guide them through the compilation of new contracts and handbooks or the revision of their existing materials.

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