Contracts of Employment

摘要

So, you hire a new employee and get them to sign up to a contract of employment. That's your job done on the contract side of things. Or is it? Many employers can fall into the trap of having an employee sign a contract at the start of their employment and not think about this again - no matter how long the employee is with them. This can lead to a situation where an employee has been employed by a company for years, has been promoted on numerous occasions but the contract is not updated to reflect the employee's seniority. If the relationship ends badly and the employer wants to rely on certain clauses, it can turn out that the contract governing the relationship Is so out of date that many of the clauses are not relevant, or the clauses it expected to see were not there. This is particularly important if a company is seeking to rely on restrictive covenants to prevent an employee going off and working for a competitor, taking clients, or perhaps taking key employees.