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    Improving Your Contracts of Employment: 10 Top Tips to Mitigate Your Contractual Risks

    22 March 2016
    Rutland House
    148 Edmund Street
    Birmingham
    B3 2JR

    • When did you last review your template contracts of employment and are they still fit for purpose? 
    • Do you feel confident enough to amend them for specific individual circumstances?   
    • Do they give you sufficient flexibility to change employees’ terms and conditions or places of work?  
    • Are you missing out on drafting which would give you greater flexibility and options when dealing with departing employees? 

    Understanding the issues and giving careful consideration to these matters at the outset of the employment relationship can help significantly mitigate an employer’s financial and legal exposure in the long-term. Clear and careful drafting in the employment contract is essential.

    Join us at our March Employment Workshop when we will be sharing best practice tips and practical insight on how you can improve your contracts of employment to ensure they provide your business with greater flexibility and the right protection.

    We will cover the key clauses in a contract of employment, including:

    • Flexibility and mobility clauses – ensuring greater flexibility when you need to change job roles, duties or places of work 
    • Employee benefits clauses – the importance of reserving the contractual right to vary, terminate and/or withdraw such benefits   
    • Holidays and holiday pay - innovative ways to mitigate the impact of the holiday pay cases  
    • Bonus clauses – “good leaver/bad leaver” provisions
    • Protecting your business on termination – the pros and cons of including payment in lieu of notice (PILON) clauses, and best practice on garden leave and restrictive covenant clauses
    • How the contract should interact with other documents – e.g. the staff handbook, other benefits documentation, etc.

    The aim of our workshop programme this year is to enable you to deal more effectively and economically with typical employment law issues.

    As always, you will have the opportunity to ask questions of our lawyers as well as to share experiences with other delegates.

    This workshop is suitable for legal and HR professionals.

    Registration is at 8:45 a.m. for a 9 a.m. start. The seminar will last 1.5 hours.

    Cost - £40 plus VAT

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