Employee contracts

[loobus]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering if anybody here had a draft of an employee contract I could skim over for some reference points? There are a couple of things I'm wishing to formally ensure with this contract, such as a non-competition rule (can't start up a lawn care business and "steal" customers"), and some overview of liabilities and responsibilities.

If anyone here has one and could post it, that would be great!
Thanks a lot for all the help so far.

[JakobHarper]

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I would also like to see something like this if anyone has one. It's way too early for me to even grasp the concept of hiring employees but when that day comes I want to throw some paper at em.


Thanks.

P.S. - Is it even legal to impose a no-compete clause with your employees?

[jagmagic]

very simple. either #1 have an attourney draw you up a good loop free contract.

or #2 state exactly what you need the employee to agree to in a contract of your own design and have an attourney look over it.

Being in this proffession, you should know when to "do it yourself" or hire a "specialist".

My employees sign 2 things daily, and 2 things weekly.

The two daily things are the job sheets (the crew leader signs and each employee initials each job sheet for every job done that day.)

An end of day agreement stating the that they certify all lawns in schedualed for the day was complete without incident, injury, or property damage. If any of the above occur they can list in a space provided just above their signature.

The 2 weekly items they sign is an updated list of the lawns they mowed and the hours it took them to do it in.

The other is a signature stating they received their weekly contractor compansation. All of my employees are contract workers that are paid by the job, not necessarily by the hour. This way they are elligable for bonuses for quality of work and they all motivate each other to work efficiently.

All of my employees this year will sign a amended contract which states several things such as:

They are not an employee nor representative of "my business name"

Me nor my company are liable for personal injury as they are working at their own risk.

That proper training and safety education of the tools they will use to complete each and every contracted job is the responsability of the contractor, not "my company name" or myself.

That damage to tools provided by "my company name" due to improper use or neglagence is the financial responsability of the contractor, and payment of said financial obligation will be withheld from the contracted jobs compensation.

That failure to meet deadlines and/or quality expectations can result in an immediate termination of this contract. This contact will be binding on the contractor until 24 hours after termination of the contract has elapsed.

Adendum I to contractor agreement.
At no time while under contract or within 1 year of termination of this contract will the contractor attempt in any way to discuss pricing, services, or contracts with any current or potential customers of "my company name", without writen permission from "my name". Potential customers are considered anyone with the capacity and/or possiblility of becoming a customer of "my company name". (this pretty much includes everyone with a lawn.) Disclosure of any private or public pricing information regarding "my company name" will be determined to be breach of contract and said contractor could be fined up to but no more than the contractors total compensation.



Now, most of this is a bluff as my attourney assures me I could in no court take back compensation for jobs performed. He says however, unless my employees were to get an attourney to examine this they would probably never know that.

They also have to initial next to each term and thier are many more terms. Please keep in mind these are said from memory and are worded differently on my contract. Please don't responde to this saying, it's B.S. or no attourney would word things that way and stuff like that. This is laymen terms of what is said in the contract I use.