All "employment-contracts" articles
- How to draw up an employment contract
- By law you have to write an employment contract soon after an employee starts, but the contract doesn't cover all obligations between parties.
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- Relocate to... France
- France is now closer than ever to the UK – but is it a neighbourly place to run a business?
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- Relocate to... the United States
- Receptive to entrepreneurs with inspirational ideas, the United States is among the best places to do business in the world.
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- Temporary staff: the law
- With European and domestic law clashing over the issue, the rights of temporary staff are not always obvious to many business owners.
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- Agency workers: your employees or the agency's?
- The law surrounding agency workers, their status and their rights is quite ambiguous. Brian Mclelland of Business Lawyers explains the implications of a recent legal precedent.
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- When the tail wags the dog
- Employers have to accomodate an ever greater set of employee demands, either due to legislation or through fear of missing out on the best staff.
- See more in: flexible working, flexi-time, EU, working hours, Working Time Directive, work-life balance, employees, staff, HR, guides
- Employing immigrant workers
- Small businesses need to be more vigilant than ever about hiring foreign workers, says Laura Mitchell of Clarion Solicitors.
- See more in: HR, recruitment, immigration, immigrants, foreign workers, employees, staff, employment, hiring, legal, guides
- Conducting due dilligence
- After signing an agreement in principle, but before signing a binding contract, you need to conduct a comprehensive MOT - to use a motoring analogy - of the business.
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- Bullying in the workplace – too costly to ignore
- The macho culture which often prevails in the kitchen, is unacceptable says one of the world's leading chefs, and Richard Port of Clarion Solicitors says this applies to every industry.
- See more in: Raymond Blanc, bullying, kitchen, chefs, legal, guides
- Recruiting staff
- Recruitment can be a difficult and time-consuming task. BusinessWings provides some pointers.
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- Hey, big spender!
- Fraud defence expert Stephen Fox gives gives some sage advice to business people about how to avoid accusations of overusing your business expense account.
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- Plumbing businesses
- It's physically demanding and often involves working in claustrophobic spaces, but plumbing can be quite lucrative.
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- Is it in writing?
- A guide to licence agreements for intellectual property and the implications of not having them in writing. By intellectual property specialist Sara Ludlam, a solicitor at Keeble Hawson.
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- The franchise agreement: essentials
- The franchise agreement is a contract that binds franchisor and franchisee to certain obligations. Franchise solicitor Manzoor Ishani explains the fundamentals...
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- Company formation checklist
- A guide to the key decisions you have to make when forming your company. By Brian McLelland, solicitor and Managing Director at Business Lawyers Ltd.
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