Are your employment agreements up to date?

Current employment agreements ensure clarity in working hours, notification when employees may be absent, notice on termination of employment, established disciplinary procedures and more. In our experience many small to midsized business fail to keep their employment agreements up to date and regret this as soon as something goes wrong with the employment relationship.

For example an up to date employment agreement should outline how you expect employees to notify the business should they feel they are unable to attend work as a result of illness. Whilst text messages are increasingly used to communicate all manner of messages between people this is an area where use of text messaging is inappropriate. A text message provides little understanding of the duration of the absence, what work may remain incomplete or need to be reallocated and specific client commitments due that day.

Clients of Your HRmanager Retained Employer Advisory Service can contact us for guidance on any situation where up dated employment agreements are required. In addition, clients can easily download templates for these documents from the Your HRmanager Online Library.