Employment Contract & HR Letter Templates
Before you use one
What employment documents have in common
These documents are used when an employer needs to document the terms of a job, a change to it, or the end of it. They are typically signed by small business owners, HR managers, startup founders and employees checking what they were handed.
Employment documents sit on top of statutory rights that cannot be signed away. A contract can improve on the legal minimum for notice, pay and leave — it cannot go below it, and a clause that tries is usually unenforceable while the rest of the document stands.
Employment law is highly local and changes often. Confirm notice periods, dismissal procedure and restrictive-covenant limits for your jurisdiction before relying on any template.
Avoid these
Common mistakes
- 01
Contradicting statutory minimums
Notice periods, minimum wage, holiday entitlement and overtime rules are set by law in most jurisdictions. Writing something less generous does not make it binding.
- 02
Misclassifying a contractor
Calling someone a contractor does not make them one. Regulators look at control, substitution and integration — misclassification means back taxes and penalties.
- 03
Overbroad restrictive covenants
Non-competes with no geographic or time limit are routinely struck down. A narrow clause that holds beats a broad one that does not.
- 04
No documented reason for dismissal
Termination letters that omit the reason and the process followed create the evidential gap that unfair-dismissal claims are built in.
Employment template FAQs
Are these employment templates free?
Yes — 10 of the 13 templates in this category are published in full on this site. Read every clause on the page, then copy the text or download it as PDF, Word or plain text. No account and no watermark.
What makes employment documents enforceable?
Employment documents sit on top of statutory rights that cannot be signed away. A contract can improve on the legal minimum for notice, pay and leave — it cannot go below it, and a clause that tries is usually unenforceable while the rest of the document stands.
Which employment template should I use?
Match the document to the event, not to the relationship. A Employment Contract is for when you need to full-time employment agreement; A Offer Letter is for when you need to job offer documentation; A Termination Letter is for when you need to employment termination notice. If none of them fit, describe your situation in the app and it will draft the right document.
Do these templates work in my country?
Employment law is highly local and changes often. Confirm notice periods, dismissal procedure and restrictive-covenant limits for your jurisdiction before relying on any template. The templates are written to be jurisdiction-neutral, with governing law left as a field for you to complete.
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