Fixed-term employment agreement
Use this agreement to create a fixed-term employment contract for a new employee. You can set the employment to end on a particular date, when a particular event occurs or when a particular task is complete.
It includes options for part-time and shift working, probation, working hours, breaks, overtime, workplace locations (including working abroad), salary, bonuses, benefits, annual leave, sick leave, pensions, data protection, termination (including post-termination restrictions), and more.
It also includes detailed disciplinary and grievance procedures as optional attachments.
All employers must give certain information in a written statement to new employees. This agreement contains that information. If you're an employer in England, Wales or Scotland, you must give the information by the time the employee starts working for you. In Northern Ireland, you can give it up to 2 months after they start.
Use this agreement in combination with our employee handbook (or your own) in order to refer to details of your policies and procedures (e.g. about different types of paid leave).
This document is not currently suitable for part-year employees (such as employees who work only during education term times) or employees who work irregular hours (i.e. the number of hours they work varies all or most of the time).
Warning for employers in Great Britain: from 1 January 2027, employees are eligible to make an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal after 6 months' service. This means that unless you're using this document for a fixed term of less than 6 months, any new employee you use it for will have the right to claim unfair dismissal at the end of their fixed term. This doesn't mean any such claim would be successful, nor does it mean you shouldn't use this document. However, you must act carefully at the end of the fixed term and the process may be more onerous. Consider if a different employment structure is possible or more suitable. Get legal advice if necessary.
It includes options for part-time and shift working, probation, working hours, breaks, overtime, workplace locations (including working abroad), salary, bonuses, benefits, annual leave, sick leave, pensions, data protection, termination (including post-termination restrictions), and more.
It also includes detailed disciplinary and grievance procedures as optional attachments.
All employers must give certain information in a written statement to new employees. This agreement contains that information. If you're an employer in England, Wales or Scotland, you must give the information by the time the employee starts working for you. In Northern Ireland, you can give it up to 2 months after they start.
Use this agreement in combination with our employee handbook (or your own) in order to refer to details of your policies and procedures (e.g. about different types of paid leave).
This document is not currently suitable for part-year employees (such as employees who work only during education term times) or employees who work irregular hours (i.e. the number of hours they work varies all or most of the time).
Warning for employers in Great Britain: from 1 January 2027, employees are eligible to make an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal after 6 months' service. This means that unless you're using this document for a fixed term of less than 6 months, any new employee you use it for will have the right to claim unfair dismissal at the end of their fixed term. This doesn't mean any such claim would be successful, nor does it mean you shouldn't use this document. However, you must act carefully at the end of the fixed term and the process may be more onerous. Consider if a different employment structure is possible or more suitable. Get legal advice if necessary.
Fixed-term employment agreement
Compatible region(s):
Scotland
Northern Ireland
England
Wales
Use this agreement to create a fixed-term employment contract for a new employee. You can set the employment to end on a particular date, when a particular event occurs or when a particular task is complete.
It includes options for part-time and shift working, probation, working hours, breaks, overtime, workplace locations (including working abroad), salary, bonuses, benefits, annual leave, sick leave, pensions, data protection, termination (including post-termination restrictions), and more.
It also includes detailed disciplinary and grievance procedures as optional attachments.
All employers must give certain information in a written statement to new employees. This agreement contains that information. If you're an employer in England, Wales or Scotland, you must give the information by the time the employee starts working for you. In Northern Ireland, you can give it up to 2 months after they start.
Use this agreement in combination with our employee handbook (or your own) in order to refer to details of your policies and procedures (e.g. about different types of paid leave).
This document is not currently suitable for part-year employees (such as employees who work only during education term times) or employees who work irregular hours (i.e. the number of hours they work varies all or most of the time).
Warning for employers in Great Britain: from 1 January 2027, employees are eligible to make an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal after 6 months' service. This means that unless you're using this document for a fixed term of less than 6 months, any new employee you use it for will have the right to claim unfair dismissal at the end of their fixed term. This doesn't mean any such claim would be successful, nor does it mean you shouldn't use this document. However, you must act carefully at the end of the fixed term and the process may be more onerous. Consider if a different employment structure is possible or more suitable. Get legal advice if necessary.
It includes options for part-time and shift working, probation, working hours, breaks, overtime, workplace locations (including working abroad), salary, bonuses, benefits, annual leave, sick leave, pensions, data protection, termination (including post-termination restrictions), and more.
It also includes detailed disciplinary and grievance procedures as optional attachments.
All employers must give certain information in a written statement to new employees. This agreement contains that information. If you're an employer in England, Wales or Scotland, you must give the information by the time the employee starts working for you. In Northern Ireland, you can give it up to 2 months after they start.
Use this agreement in combination with our employee handbook (or your own) in order to refer to details of your policies and procedures (e.g. about different types of paid leave).
This document is not currently suitable for part-year employees (such as employees who work only during education term times) or employees who work irregular hours (i.e. the number of hours they work varies all or most of the time).
Warning for employers in Great Britain: from 1 January 2027, employees are eligible to make an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal after 6 months' service. This means that unless you're using this document for a fixed term of less than 6 months, any new employee you use it for will have the right to claim unfair dismissal at the end of their fixed term. This doesn't mean any such claim would be successful, nor does it mean you shouldn't use this document. However, you must act carefully at the end of the fixed term and the process may be more onerous. Consider if a different employment structure is possible or more suitable. Get legal advice if necessary.
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