Employment Contracts & Dispute Resolution
To protect your business and reputation, make sure that you:
- Have an employment contract with all of your employees that complies with the law.
- Understand the employment contracts that you have in place.
- Act in accordance with the terms of the employment contracts or seek to renegotiate the terms of the employment contract with the employee, before terminating an employee’s employment or changing their work conditions.
- Have comprehensive workplace policies and procedures in place.
- Put systems in place to ensure that workplace policies and procedures are acted on and monitored.
- Consider using other commercial agreements, such as, contracts of insurance and independent contractor agreements (if legally applicable) to reduce the risk associated with being an employer.
Frequently Asked Questions
An experienced lawyer can help employers understand employment contracts and how to comply with the law.
A lawyer can assist employers in ensuring that their workplace policies and procedures are legal and advise on additional policies and procedures that should be set up. They can also assist in making sure that policies and procedures are acted on and monitored.