As your new business launches or scales up, employees need to be hired urgently and sometimes the legal documentation can lag behind. We understand that getting to grips with your legal obligations to your employees can be daunting and confusing, which is why we’re here to offer employment contract advice.
Implementing the right employment contracts for employees and self-employed contractors, and workplace policies and procedures at an early stage can be a valuable investment to protect your business. An employment written contract ensures you’re compliant with UK employment law, safeguards your business’s assets and information, and avoids any employment disputes. Having suitable employment contracts and policies already in place can also help secure investment when your business is ready to scale.
We partner with your business to help you understand your employment obligations and introduce tailored employment documents, drawn up by a senior specialist lawyer, for your business’s specific needs and to reflect your business’s culture, which will serve you long into the future. As part of our legal solutions, we provide employment contract advice on:
Contact us to find out more about our expert legal advice and how we can support you through the legal process when it comes to employment contracts.
As employment contract solicitors, we appreciate that you need to manage costs carefully. We offer employment packages on a fixed fee basis to start-up businesses to give you cost certainty. This includes time with a senior employment lawyer so you get “in-person” legal advice and reassurance, as well as all of your essential employment contracts and documents, tailored to your business needs.
Protect your business as it grows and ensure compliance of the company’s obligations under UK employment legislation. Directors’ Service Agreements should be put in place when founders are ready to start paying themselves a salary, somebody from outside the business is employed and appointed as a director and / or you are ready to seek funding from investors. This package includes a consultation session with one of our employment lawyers to discuss the key requirements to meet the needs of your business, including:
To enquire about Directors Service Agreements for your business, contact one of the team at Arbor Law.
Getting the right employment contracts, policies and procedures in place at the beginning will help ensure your business is set up to scale and will avoid the pain and expense of putting it right in the future.
Our lawyers will work with you to ensure that you have the right employment documentation to meet your business’s specific requirements. This package includes a consultation session with a senior specialist employment lawyer to discuss the key employment issues to be aware of, and your business’s requirements.
As part of the package, we can create the following customised employment contract tailored to your business needs. This includes:
To enquire about the Get Employment Ready package for your business, contact one of the team at Arbor Law.
Getting your business off the ground can often involve hiring individual contractors and consultants at short notice to help with the things that you can’t do yourself. To protect your business and avoid misunderstandings and disputes, it’s important to introduce a suitable legally binding agreement for your independent contractors. Funders and investors will also require an appropriate written statement to be put in place with your independent contractors to protect the company’s confidential information and intellectual property.
Our employment lawyers will work with you to develop a suitable independent contractors’ agreement for your business. This package includes a consultation with a senior specialist employment lawyer to discuss the key requirements to help you meet your business needs:
The package includes reaction of a customised self-employed contractors agreement tailored to your business requirements:
To enquire about the Independent Contractors Agreement package, contact one of the team at Arbor Law.
If you’re looking for support with employment contract issues, our lawyers are experts when it comes to delivering legal advice on employment rights and disputes, including unfair dismissal and drafting contracts for existing and new employees.
To enquire about one of our packages or to learn more about the employment law advice we provide, complete the form below to get in touch with our employment lawyers.