HOW TO USE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO KEEP YOUR COMPANY OUT OF COURT
Benefits Of This Program:
- Clearer rights and expectations of all parties from the outset to ensure fewer problems
- Effective use of employment contracts to save time, trouble, and money, avoid law suits, reduce employee termination costs, and protect company assets or property when an employee leaves
Learn:
- How to use contracts for maximum certainty and flexibility
- What forms a contract can take and proper procedures to create them
- Importance of representing the job accurately and avoiding potential exposure for negligent misstatement
- Why contracts can be set aside and how to avoid the pitfalls
- How to improve the chances that restrictive clauses are enforceable
- Components of the contract: basics, restrictions, and special issues
Agenda
Introduction: Why Use Employment Contracts
- Limiting liability
- Who do contracts apply to
- Relationship between employment contracts and statute law
Forms of Employment Contracts
- Applications for employment
- Employment letters
- Conditional offers
- Separate agreements
Using Employment Contracts
- When to propose employment contracts
- Allowing time for review
- Getting contracts signed
- Negotiating terms
- Extra-contractual representations
Amendments During Employment
- Consideration
- Notice
- Employee relations issues
Creating An Independent Contractual Relationship
- Differences between contractor and employee
- Advantages and disadvantages of the relationship
- Termination and other special issues for contractors
Part 1: The Basics: Components of the Contract
- Defining terms or tasks
- Duties and expectations
- Wages and benefits
- Termination of employment (employee termination)
- Defining just cause
- Defining separation package
- Varying from “reasonable notice”
- Resignation and retirement
Part 2: Restrictions: Components of the Contract
- Addressing confidentiality and defining confidential information
- Defining obligations
- Creating exceptions
- Prohibiting competition after termination
- Considerations
- Defining the prohibited activity
- Geographic scope
- Duration
- Remedy
- Procedural issues
- Prohibiting solicitation of employees and customers
- Ownership of inventions and intellectual property
Part 3: Special Issues: Components of the Contract
- Inability to work
- Privacy issues
- Changes of control and the senior executive
- Retention bonuses
- Varying from Employment Standards
- When approval of the Director of Employment Standards is needed and how to get it
- Relationship between employment contracts and releases
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Phone: +1 416-875-2235
Fax: 416-363-7358
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://newstaging.stringerllp.com
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