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Know About Employment Contracts

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Those who are employed or work for employer for a regular wage, know what a contract of employment is. A employment contract can be written or not. Most of the employees work under open-ended contracts of employment, or the contract continues until the employer or employee wants to end it!

There are also some employees, who work under fixed-term or specified-purpose contracts. In this case, contracts in which they are bonded with end on a specified date or when a specific task is completed. Regardless of any contract, the terms that the courts say are in every contract of employment. Some of the terms include, the duty of every employer to provide a safe workplace, and the duty of every employee to carry out the job to the best of his/her ability. And this part of the contract is referred to as "common law".

Terms that must be part of the contract as a result of laws passed. Such examples include, the right to take maternity leave. These terms are part of the contract of employment, no matter the employer and employee do not specifically include them and replace any agreement between the employer and employee not to apply the particular law. Therefore, the statutory right to take maternity leave overrides any agreement between the employer and employee that the employee will not take maternity leave.

Terms and conditions are the integral parts of any contract, for example, the right of an employee to join a trade union, Collective agreements or Joint Labor Committee Regulations. Apart from these, custom and practice of a particular workplace also form part of a contract. For example, a particular level of overtime pay for employees.

Changes to a contract of employment may occur due to a change in the law. But, in general, changes must be agreed between employer and employee. It requires both the employer's and the employee's consent to make changes in the terms of the contract, which is also a part of contract law.

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