hello there and welcome to this short video about how to draft an employment
contract and some express terms that should be included if we'll ever see
depend on whether the contract of employment at your drafting is for an
executive or perhaps support staff or perhaps a retail worker but so most of
these terms should be considered in your contract my name is Terry garima contact
details I'm a solicitor with contact details earlier on the screen so let's
get the show on the road basically has a background an employment contract in
arid climate law is made up of implied terms and Express terms the implied
terms fall into four categories those implied by statute ie law statute law
terms implied by custom and practice terms implied by law terms implied by
collective agreements in unionized deployments this video is going to just
look at Express terms on our Express term or hot Express term should be
included firstly the parties to the agreement the job description the hours
are work place of work whether the contract is for exclusive service in
other words whether the person can engage in other activities aside from
your particular role your particular job whether they can be engaged perhaps in
another job or in another business or something that needs to be clarified a
probation term should be included the term of the contract whether it's a
fixed term contract or a part-time or a fixed term contract or permanent
contract clearly the salary in page should be included holidays and annual
leaves and should be provided for even though there are particular statutory
requirements that you must give an employee also depending on the job the
employee may negotiate a better holiday package or on your leave package if
there's a company in car involved well then that should be
should be put in the contract for that the sick pay situation in the company
whether the sick pay scheme and so on should be provided for is there a
pension or retirement age and what this is an important one what is your
disability procedure there should be restrictive covenant and for when the
employment relationship ends in other words a non-compete clause and
termination provisions should be included in the contract you might need
a search clause in the contract depending under for example if
somebody's working in a factory or working in retail you may wish to have a
search turns in other words to have a reasonable search of the person to
ensure that Amash removing your products are your goods from the factory or from
the shop floor you may need to include an expressed term in relation to patents
and intellectual property of your company and there may be share options
obviously this will only apply to an executive type role but it's something
that should be considered you should also make provision in your contract for
bullying and harassment in the workplace you should have a policy and procedure
and you need to consider whether whether your contract is going to be referring
to a staff handbook or whether you have bullying and procedure voting and
harassment procedure written into your contract internet and email usage 10 has
become a problem for employers with many employees making free access to the
Internet and to social media sites for example like Facebook or Twitter and so
on during work hours this is something that needs to be provided for in the
contract and what is acceptable usage resignation then you may need and put in
a provision in relation to the resignation of the employee what are the
requirements the proper law then of the contractor is it going to be governed by
Irish law or English or American law and so on you may consider some other terms
in your contract for these certainly are ones you should consider as Express
terms say my name is Terry garima solicitor
and fill the cards I contact details earlier on the screen you can find more
free information about employment law on my websites which you can see there at
the bottom of the screen thanks for watching