Ensure Compliance with Electronic Signature Lawfulness for Temporary Employment Contracts in United Kingdom

How to eSign a document: electronic signature lawfulness for Temporary Employment Contract in United Kingdom

three reasons why you need an employment contract reason one legal compliance by the end of day one you must issue a statement of particulars this is the information that employees are entitled to receive about their employment but no one went into business for legal compliance so that actually isn't one of my reasons i've got three better reasons for you okay so the real reason one set expectations an employment contract sets the expectations it tells people what you're going to give them what you expect from them in return it's as simple as that if you're going to get paid every month what hours do you want them to work when do you expect them to be turning up but what holiday are you going to give them in return but if they've got a holiday what's your expectations in terms of booking that holiday it's about setting expectations when you set expectations when they're in writing and really clear to people they are much more likely to follow them this means it will help you to improve performance have a better output and productivity from your team reason 2 make your offer clear the legal minimum is to give a statement of particulars by the end of day one of employment i don't think that's enough i think that a full contract of employment should be given out before somebody starts work they are committing to work for you they're committing a serious number of hours of their time to you to your business they should know exactly what they're committing to they should know what is expected of them they should know what they will get in return for those expectations the offer should be really clear and increasingly people are pushing for this they won't resign old jobs until they've got a contract to employment in their hands which makes that offer really clear reason three protect your business clauses like deductions from wages if you don't explicitly say in the contract that you will deduct from wages and what you will deduct for you cannot deduct from wages this includes things like holiday where somebody leaves the employment part way through the holiday year and has taken more holiday than they're entitled to or what about someone who leaves employment with the keys to your premises and doesn't return them or doesn't return kit or perhaps they keep losing kit or equipment that you've provided them with this is just one example of a clause that really does protect your business others include things like short time working flexible working clauses there's a whole range of them but protecting your business is key there's also employment tribunals having a contract of employment shows compliance it shows that you're being reasonable and if you do dismiss somebody it shows or helps to show that you've clearly demonstrated to somebody what that rule is so if you're dismissing for a breach for a rule you need to be able to show that somebody knew what that rule was the employment contract is part of the way to being able to do that an employee handbook or policies and procedures are also really crucial to this so that's it that's your three reasons why you need a contract of employment [Music] you