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Employment

Hiring, paying and keeping staff, and what happens when they leave.

Employment work starts with one document: the contract between a business and the people who work for it. A junior drafts offer letters and contracts, and checks them against the law in force on the start date. Clients then ask about pay, notice, bonuses and what a leaving employee may take. Each task makes sense only once you have seen one contract work from start to end.

The edition here follows one fictional hire. A coffee machine company hires a Head of Sales from a rival, and you act for the company. The contract of employment is attached in full, and you read each clause when the hire needs it, with a short test after each chapter.