Contract of employment with written statement of particulars (Northern Ireland)

When to use this document

• ·You are taking on your first employee in Northern Ireland and need a contract of employment.
• ·Someone has worked for you for weeks with nothing in writing and you need to give them their terms.
• ·You want the contract to be the written statement of particulars the law asks for as well.
• ·You want an employment contract under Northern Ireland law, not an English one.

What you fill in

The details the document asks for.

• ·Date
• ·Employer
• ·Employer's company number at Companies House (if a company)
• ·Employer's registered address
• ·Town or city
• ·Employer's postcode
• ·Employee
• ·Employee's address
• ·Employee's postcode
• ·Start date
• ·Earlier date continuous employment began (only if a previous employer's service counts)
• ·Length of the probationary period, if any (e.g. three months)
• ·Job title
• ·Main duties of the job
• ·Place of work (address, or the area and the employer's base if it varies)
• ·Work outside the UK for more than a month at a time, if any (where, how long, pay and terms)
• ·Gross base salary
• ·The pay is an amount
• ·How often pay is paid
• ·Payday (e.g. the last working day of each month)
• ·Normal working hours and days (e.g. 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm)
• ·Overtime and how it is paid, if any
• ·Annual leave, in working days
• ·Bank holidays: included in the holiday days, or on top of them
• ·Day the holiday year begins (e.g. 1 January)
• ·Sick pay beyond statutory sick pay
• ·Workplace pension scheme (its name, e.g. NEST)
• ·Other benefits, if any (e.g. health insurance, bonus scheme)
• ·Training the employer provides or requires, and who pays for it
• ·Collective agreements that affect the terms (or “none”)
• ·Where staff can read the disciplinary and grievance procedures (e.g. the staff handbook)
• ·Person to write to with a grievance or an appeal (job title)
• ·Notice the employee must give (e.g. one month's)
• ·Notice the employer must give (e.g. one month's, or the statutory minimum if longer)
• ·Person signing for the employer

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