Legal & Compliance Blog for Recruitment Agencies

Do You Need a Contracts Manager?

If you own a small recruitment business, it’s unlikely that you need a full-time contracts manager sitting in your back office.

Looking to Sack Someone?

Are you looking to terminate the employment of one of your employees? To do that, you need to follow certain employment law obligations, and you also need to have an internal policy detailing how you do that.

How Much Data Does Your Company Hold?

If you are starting a business or if you have an established business already, you need to make sure that you are following data protection laws.

How To Get Rid Of Sh*t Employees

How do you get rid of an employee if you’ve hired someone and they’re not very good at their job? There are certain procedures that you need to follow. You can’t just tell them to leave.

Have You Updated Your Policies?

If you are looking at hiring someone, you need to give them basic information about their job. Legally, you have to tell them what they will be earning, their dates of employment, and their basic obligations.

Have You Got a Shareholders’ Agreement?

If you are starting a business with someone else or with a group of people, you need to make sure that you have a shareholders agreement in place.

Going To Court is Expensive!

Sometimes going to court can be expensive, time-consuming, and a little bit scary. Instead, there’s something called dispute resolution. Dispute resolution is an alternative form of getting a result on something – it’s a way of settling disputes. At The Contract Doctor, we can help you with mediation services. With mediation services, you sit down […]

Do You Watch P*rn on Your Work Laptop?

Do you watch p*rn on your work laptop? And do you watch p*rn during work time? Some people do. As a business, we conduct training on a regular basis, and we once logged into a training session to find that when the guy shared his screen, there was a very small window left open showing a sexual act.

Do You Want To Force A Shareholder Out?

If you want to force a shareholder out, if they’ve done something wrong or if they’ve breached the agreement in some way, you might be able to put a clause in there so that a percentage of you can get rid of that person.

Looking To Sack Someone?

Are you looking to terminate the employment of one of your employees?

Do you Send Spec CVs?

If you are a recruitment company and you are sending out spec CVs, you need to make sure that your terms allow you to do that! Now generally speaking, if it’s your agreement you’re using, you’re going to have made sure that you are covering all bases so you can send out a spec CV, […]

Do You Know What You’re Indemnifying?

Why do you need to be careful about what you’re indemnifying in your contract?

Do You Have A Staff Handbook?

If you do not have a staff handbook telling people how to act, you might also some of that responsibility if they do something wrong or illegal because you did not tell them they couldn’t do it.

Definitions On A Contract Pretty Important?

Those words at the top of the contract are really important, those words need to be used consistently throughout your contract.

Chat GPT + Contracts Any Good?

So ChatGPT can be really useful in contracts. I’ve actually done a contract on ChatGPT and it inputs all of your usual clauses that you want in there.

Are NDAs important?

Are NDAs important? Well, kind of. So it depends what you’re going to be saying.

Your Contracts Should Read Like A Story

From the beginning, to the middle, all the way through to the end, your contracts should read like a story.

Legal Verse Or Potter Curse?

Ever Get Confused With Legal Jargon?
The Contract Doctor has been put to the test deciphering some of the words we come across. Will it be a legal verse? or will it be a Potter curse?

Is Your Legal & Compliance Protecting You From Historic Risk?

Are you thinking of selling your business and trust that your contracts are risk free?

The Contract Doctor will simply the process for businesses that are thinking of selling their business by conducting a contract audit so that at time of valuation you done lose out and have money knocked off the value of your business.

Are Your HR Basics In Place?

Whether you are a start-up or an established business with one or more employees, it is imperative that you have the absolute essential HR basics in place. Guaranteed that once you’re faced with having to deal with an employee dispute, having to commence disciplinary proceedings or faced with a complex workplace situation, you will be wishing you had the basics to fall back on at the very least.

3 Most Common Contract Mistakes

When starting up a business, it’s really easy to want to skimp on certain things… including legal documents. Here are the most common mistakes the recruitment companies make when setting up! The Contract Doctor are a one-stop shop for any legal, compliance and back-office services for recruitment agencies and staffing companies.

3 Things To Do Before You Start Up Your Recruitment Business

So, if you are thinking of starting up a company, I know it can seem really scary, but actually all you need to do is focus on 3 things.