Employment Contracts · glossary

Offer letter

The letter that sets out the main terms of a job before the full contract: the role, the pay, the start date and any conditions. Cressby’s bound both sides once Esme accepted it, on the conditions that clause 3 repeats. The Contract then replaced it. Chapter 2 · see Written statement

Explained in Chapter 2, The Offer Letter, the Written Statement and the Start Date, of Employment Contracts.

How it comes up, in Chapter 1
At the start of October 2026 Esme accepts Cressby’s offer letter, which sets out the main terms of the job. Once she accepts it, both sides are bound, on conditions such as good references. She resigns that week, and her current employer puts her on garden leave for her three months’ notice. She stays employed and paid, but away from work and customers, so she cannot take fresh news of them to Cressby.
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