Employment · Employment fee-earner, HR-facing partner, in-house legal
Compliance review of an employment contract
A short-form contract that has sat in the precedent folder is checked clause by clause against English employment law before a senior hire is countersigned.
- Agents
- First draft
- A full compliance memo from one run, unattended; the managing partner then works the six items it flags.
- Steps
- 6
The problem
Step 01 of 06
Open the matter and add the contract
Client is the firm itself, practice area Employment, jurisdiction England and Wales. The contract converts in seconds.
Step 02 of 06
Dispatch the Contract Agent
Prepare for: Work-Stream Memo, Deliver as: Word. The instruction asks for every unenforceable, non-compliant or high-risk clause, a proposed redline for each, and which statutory written particulars are missing.
Step 03 of 06
Read the overall risk line
The memo states the risk as high and names the three clauses driving it: the non-compete, the data and monitoring consent, and the holiday carry-over cap.
Step 04 of 06
Work the fourteen authorities
Each carries a verdict and a Where we looked panel. Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd resolves with its neutral citation; statutes resolve to legislation.gov.uk.
Step 05 of 06
Confirm the six action items
Replace the non-compete, rewrite the data clause on a proper lawful basis, amend the holiday carry-over, separate the working-time opt-out, complete the missing written particulars, confirm the bonus clause.
Step 06 of 06
Sign off and export
The managing partner reads the summary, works the six items and downloads the Word memo with citations intact.
What comes back
A document, not a transcript.
- An overall risk rating with the driving clauses named first.
- A clause-by-clause analysis starting from the working-time and opt-out provisions.
- Fourteen authorities, each with a verdict and a link to its source.
- An explicit scope note naming what was not supplied, such as the staff handbook or a separate opt-out agreement.
Authorities it checks
- Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32
- UK GDPR
- Working Time Regulations 1998, SI 1998/1833
- Employment Rights Act 1996, s.1
What it does not do
- It reviews only the document supplied. A staff handbook, monitoring policy or bonus plan not uploaded is named as missing, not assumed.
- It assumes a fixed-hours employee unless told otherwise, and says so.
- It does not countersign anything. A human confirms every action item.