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

Book an In-House or Remote Program

For further information on our training, please call your lawyer at the Firm. If you are not a current client, please contact:

Program Administrator
Tel: 416-862-1616 or 1-866-821-7306
[email protected]

contact
Phone: +1 416-875-2235
Fax: 416-363-7358
contact
Phone: +1 416-875-2235
Fax: 416-363-7358
Ryan J. Conlin
Ryan J. Conlin

Partner

Natalie G. Caballero
Natalie G. Caballero

Associate

Jeffrey D. A. Murray
Jeffrey D. A. Murray

Partner

Jeremy D. Schwartz
Jeremy D. Schwartz

Partner

Allison L. Taylor
Allison L. Taylor

Counsel

Landon P. Young
Landon P. Young

Managing Partner