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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. That’s because work is going to ebb and flow—sometimes you’ll have loads of work, and other times you won’t have much. At The Contract Doctor, we allow you to purchase time in advance. The […]

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. It’s fair that if you are going to dismiss an employee, they need to know what the actual […]

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. You should conduct a data protection audit where you map out where all of the data in your business flows: which departments it goes to, how it comes in, […]

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. There are employment laws that need to align with what is in your contract and your policy document. If […]

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. The best approach is to have a full employee contract. In that contract, you will outline what holidays they […]

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. This shareholders agreement will govern how the shareholders—not the directors—run the company. It might include provisions for what happens if one of the shareholders dies: do they […]

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 with a […]

Do you watch p*rn on your work laptop?

Do you watch porn on your work laptop? And do you watch porn 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 […]

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. However, you also need to be careful because there are articles […]

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. It’s fair that if you are going to get rid of your employee, they need to know what […]

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.

Data protection laws – what you need to know

As an employer you have a responsibility to your employees to teach them about data protection laws.

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.