Employment Contracts

Your Employment Contract Should Include:

• The amounts of all types of compensation, whether the employee earns an hourly wage, salary, bonuses, incentives, or commissions;
• The nature of work expected, establishing if the employment is full-time or part-time;
• The range of time they are expected to work, such as “30 hours a week or less,” or “40-50 hours a week or more”;
• And the types and/or amounts of work-related expenses you will (or will not) reimburse.

Protect your company’s confidential information by including confidentiality provisions in the employment agreement and having a separate confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement. We assist you in creating these non-disclosure provisions – or a separate agreement – tailored to any important proprietary information you want to protect, including trade secrets.

As best practice, you may also want to include other provisions in your company’s employment agreement that apply to specific types of employees:

Non-Exempt, Hourly-Paid Employees

Many companies now hire a majority of their hourly employees on a part-time basis to control costs associated with employees who work over 40 hours a week and earn benefits. If you intend for an employee to be part-time with the opportunity to pick up extra shifts or hours, you should require the employee to notify a supervisor if their total hours approach 40 per week.

For a list of laws and regulations regarding information that new employees must be provided with at the time of their hire, head here.