Employment solutions for start-up businesses

Employment solutions for start-up businesses

Employment documentation packages for start-ups 

We understand that as new businesses launch or scale up, staff need to be hired urgently and sometimes the legal documentation can lag behind. We also understand that getting to grips with your legal obligations to your staff can be daunting and confusing as you begin to scale-up.

Implementing the right employment contracts, self-employed contractors agreements, and workplace policies and procedures at an early stage can be a valuable investment to protect your business, by ensuring compliance with UK employment law, safeguarding your business’s assets and information, and avoiding 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.

Fixed fees for cost-certainty 

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.

Directors’ Service Agreement – £1,500 plus VAT

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 a senior specialist employment lawyer
  • Discussion of the key requirements to meet the needs of your business, including:
    • Duties and responsibilities
    • Salary and benefits
    • Limits on authority and conflicts of interest
    • Notice periods and termination
    • Confidentiality and non-competition
  • Creation of a customised directors’ service agreement tailored to your business needs.

To enquire about Directors Service Agreements for your business, contact one of the team at Arbor Law.

Get Employment Ready – £2,000 plus VAT 

Getting the right employment contracts, policies and procedures in place at the beginning will help growing businesses to 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
  • Discussion of the key employment issues to be aware of, and your business’s requirements.
  • Creation of the following customised employment documents tailored to your business needs:
  1. Template offer of employment letter
  2. Template employment contract for general use by your business
  3. Staff handbook containing employment policies and procedures relevant to your business

To enquire about the “Get Employment Ready” package for your business, contact one of the team at Arbor Law. 

Independent Contractors Agreement – £1,000 plus VAT

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 is important to introduce suitable written agreements for your independent contractors. Funders and investors will also require appropriate agreements 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 session with a senior specialist employment lawyer
  • Discussion of the key requirements to meet the needs of your business, including:
    • Fees
    • Intellectual property
    • Confidentiality
    • Competitive activities
    • Notice and termination
    • Employment status
  • Creation of a customised self-employed contractors agreement tailored to your business needs.

To enquire about a Self-Employed Contractors Agreement for your business, contact one of the team at Arbor Law.