Employment Contract
Dated: Contract Date
Name: Name of Employee
Contents
- Definitions
- Entire understanding and start
- Duties and job description
- Place of work
- Hours of work
- Salary
- Leave for holidays and other reasons
- Sickness or other absence
- Other business or employment
- New intellectual property
- Confidentiality
- Termination of employment
- Arrangements during notice period
- Summary termination
- Procedure after termination
- Notices
- Interpretation
- Governing law
This contract is dated: Contract Start Date
Your employer is: Company Name (“the Company” or “we / us”)
Your employer’s address is: Company Address
You are: Employee Name S/O Father Name National Identity No
Your address is: Employee Complete Address
Your telephone number is: Employee Phone & contact Details
Your private e-mail is: Employee Email
The contract terms are:
1 Definitions
“Company” means Company Name and, where the context so admits, includes all holding, associated or subsidiary companies as defined from time to time by the companies’ acts of the Pakistan.
“Confidential Information” means all information about the Company without limit. It includes information in the public domain. It includes among other things: information about Company staff, businesses, methods of doing business, future plans, policies, suppliers, customers and the Intellectual Property. It includes information about the suppliers, agents, distributors or customers of the Company.
“Intellectual Property” means intellectual property of every sort, whether or not registered or registrable in any country, including intellectual property of kinds coming into existence after today; and including, among others, patents, trade, unregistered marks, designs, copyrights, software, domain names, discoveries, creations and inventions.
Entire Understanding & Start
This agreement contains the entire understanding between you and us.
Your employment with the Company started on Employment Starting Date.
Duties and job description
Your job title is “Job Title\Designation”.
Your responsibilities are to undertake various Responsibilities which will be allocated to you from time to time by a manager of the Company.
- Your duty is to perform your job to the best of your ability and to comply with the law. In particular you agree that you will report to Manager Designation as often as he shall ask, so as to keep him fully informed as to your activities on behalf on the Company.
- You agree to do all in your power to promote develop and extend the business of the Company and in all respects conform to and comply with the proper and reasonable directions and instructions of [the Board / General Secretary, Finance Director, etc].
Place of work
You have agreed to work from Company Office located at Company Address.
Hours of work
Your normal hours of work are from 09.00 am to 6.00 pm Monday to Saturday, excluding public holidays. However owing to the nature of your job your working time is unmeasured and you should work such hours that are necessary to enable you to perform your duties properly.
You are required to comply with any time keeping or record keeping scheme introduced by the Company.
Salary
Your salary is $Amount per month payable by bank transfer no later than the tenth day of the next month, with a view to receipt in your bank account by the 15th day of the next month.
- We reserve the right to change the pay frequency, day and method of payment, at any time if we decide to do so. If we do this we will give you as much notice as possible and discuss with you any problems which may arise in your affairs.
- Your Salary will be reviewed after completion of 4 months of starting contract date or depending upon performance. After first reviewed, your salary will be reviewed annually. We will tell you of any change.
Leave for holidays and other reasons
- Your entitlement to leave for holidays and all other reasons is 20 working days excluding national and religious holidays.
- The Company’s holiday year runs from January 1 to December 31.
- We ask you to agree the dates of your holidays at least 28 days in advance with your supervisor or director in case of long holidays. For our part we will try to give you more notice than your legal entitlement set out below.
- We may give you notice of days when you may not take leave.
- You can take your holidays only after you have completed three months employment.
- Holidays you take for religious reasons are counted as part of your holiday entitlement and are subject to the same terms.
- A day’s holiday pay for the purpose of this paragraph is 1/260th of your annual salary.
- If either of us terminates your employment by notice, then any holiday entitlement which will have accrued at the date of termination may be taken as part of the notice period. If at the date of termination, you have taken more holiday than your entitlement, then you agree that the Company may deduct the value of the excess from your final salary.
Sickness or other absence
- If you are unexpectedly absent from work for any reason you must inform us as early in the day as reasonably possible.
- You or someone on your behalf must continue to tell us each day until you are able to provide a medical certificate.
- If you are absent from work due to sickness or injury for seven days or more (including weekends) you must provide us with a medical certificate. Further medical certificates must be provided to cover any continued absence.
- Immediately on your return to work, you must complete a self-certification form stating the date of and the reason for your absence. You agree to give a full explanation.
- You agree at any time we ask, whether or not you are absent from work, to undergo whatever medical examinations we believe are appropriate and you hereby irrevocably authorise any medical practitioner to disclose to and discuss with us any reports and matters which, in their opinion, might hinder or prevent you from returning to work or from continuing to work fully and effectively.
- Provided you have complied with the general terms relating to sickness absence referred to above, you will be entitled to be paid your normal pay for periods of sickness absence up to a maximum of 7 working days in aggregate in any calendar year. Any additional sick pay is at our discretion.
Other business or employment
- You must devote the whole of your time, attention and ability during your hours of work to your duties for the Company.
- You may not under any circumstances do any other work or carry on any business during your hours of work for the Company.
- You may not do other work (even voluntary work), or engage in any other business outside your hours of work for us if in our reasonable opinion this could be prejudicial to your work for us. You agree that we do not have to give you reasons why we form this opinion.
- You may not take or retain ownership of any interest in any business whether or not competitive with the business of the Company.
New intellectual property
You and we understand that during your employment with us, you will discover and create Intellectual Property. You therefore agree that if you are involved in any way with the creation or improvement or discovery of Intellectual Property you will:
- Do your utmost to ensure that the Company acquires or retains all rights in such property;
- Provide to us whatever full specification description text or drawings as are together necessary to enable the Intellectual Property to be registered or protected by the Company.
- To make this effective you now undertake to do whatever we consider to be necessary or desirable to enable the Intellectual Property to be transferred into the name of the Company or otherwise to secure ownership by the Company.
- The provisions of this paragraph shall continue indefinitely after the termination of this contract in respect of Intellectual Property made whilst you were an employee of the Company and shall be binding upon your representatives after your death.
Confidentiality
- It is a condition of your employment that you do not divulge or disclose to any person (and that includes a business of any sort) any Confidential Information except as may be necessary in the course of your work for the Company.
- You agree that all computer files relating in any way to the Company or to your work are the property of the Company and that you will abide by any instruction of the Company in respect of those files, even when they are held on or in media owned or controlled by you.
- You agree that the provision above shall continue for a period of two years after the termination of this contract.
Termination of employment
- This contract will automatically terminate if either of us gives notice to the other as follows:
During your first year’s employment: 4 weeks;
After one year’s employment: 6 weeks.
- At any time during a period of notice given by either of us, we may terminate your employment immediately by paying to you the balance of salary that would have been payable during the remainder of the notice period. In this event you are not entitled, and have no claim, to any additional payment whatever.
- The termination of this agreement will not affect any provision intended to have effect after termination.
Arrangements during notice period
- The Company expects you to be available and to work during any notice period.
- The Company will provide a reference for you after termination of your employment as follows:
- A reference will be supplied only upon receipt by the Company / [HR director] of a request from a prospective employer;
- A reference will only be supplied directly to the prospective employer;
- The information we provide is strictly confidential.
- We reserve the right, entirely at our discretion to:-
- Terminate your employment before the expiry of the notice period and pay you the money in place of the salary you would have earned during the unworked balance of your notice period (net of usual deductions);
- Require you to undertake different duties during the notice period.
Summary termination
The Company is entitled to terminate your employment by summary notice in writing if your behavior is at any time so unacceptable as to go to the root of this contract. Here are examples of behavior that would justify summary dismissal:
- theft, fraud or deliberate falsification of records; or
- physical violence; or
- serious bullying or harassment; or
- deliberate damage to property; or
- insubordination; or
- misuse of the Company’s property or name; or
- bringing the Company into disrepute; or
- incapability whilst on duty brought on by alcohol or illegal drugs; or
- negligence which causes or might cause unacceptable loss, damage or injury; or
- breach of confidentiality; or
- failure to comply with any term of this agreement after we have warned you that failure may result in dismissal; or
- acted in a way that is inappropriate to or incompatible with your continued employment; or
- Failed to work to a satisfactory standard.
If the Company delays in exercising this right of termination that does not mean the Company has waived its right.
Procedure after termination
- However this agreement terminates, when it does so, you will:
- Return to the Company without request all property owned by the Company whether or not you perceive such property to have value; and
- Delete all Confidential Information from any computer disks, tapes or other media; and
- Keep secret the fact of the termination of your employment.
- If you fail to comply with any provision of this paragraph where compliance could be achieved by the signing of some document or doing of some thing by someone else, then you now irrevocably authorise the Company to appoint some person in your name and on your behalf to sign any document or do any such thing (without prejudice to any claims which you may have against the Company arising out of this agreement or its termination).
- If on the date you leave, money is owed by you to the Company for any reason, you now agree that it may be deducted from any final payment to you.
- If, during or after the termination of this contract some person offers employment to you of a nature which could lead you to breach this contract, then you will immediately bring this contract to the attention of that person.
Notices
Any notice to be served on either you or the Company is to be sent by first class post or recorded delivery or by e-mail and shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee within five days if posted or 24 hours if sent by e-mail.
Interpretation
In any case where any sub-paragraph of this contract is unenforceable but would be enforceable if some words were deleted or if the scope of it were reduced, then that sub-paragraph shall apply as if such deletion had been made or the scope reduced only to such an extent as to be enforceable.
Governing law
The contract shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of “Country Name” and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Country Name.
Signed on behalf of the Company
Person Name:
Designation
Signature
Signed by you to confirm you agree to all the terms:
Employee Name:
Employee N.I.C No:
Complete Address:
Employee Signature
Witness to your signature:
- Witness Name:
Witness Address:
Witness Signature
- Witness Name:
Witness Address:
Witness Signature