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The one-day Employment Contract: Rights and Obligations course. You put your own contracts and model clauses on the table and go through them with a lawyer.
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View the Employment Contract: Rights and Obligations course All HR & personnel courses →Signing a contract may seem like a small moment, but it sets an entire legal machinery in motion. From that point on, rules apply that you have partly agreed yourself and partly not at all. Legislation, collective labour agreements, staff regulations and years of case law together determine what an employer may ask and what an employee may expect. Anyone working in HR only notices this when something goes wrong: a self-employed contractor who turns out to be an employee after all, a non-competition clause that is struck down in court, a study costs clause that is worth nothing.
This free online course is the starter for our full Employment Contracts: Rights and Obligations. In the first three chapters you learn to recognise when an employment contract legally exists and when there is false self-employment, which agreements simply do not exist without being put on paper, and which requirements apply to the non-compete clause, the non-solicitation clause, the ancillary activities clause, the penalty clause and the study costs clause. Each chapter closes with a short knowledge check.
This course gives a general explanation and is not legal advice. Rules in a collective labour agreement may take precedence, and employment law changes regularly. Always put a specific situation to a lawyer. The full course goes on to cover the field of employment law, the recruitment procedure, the pre-employment medical examination, the probationary period, the chain rule, extending fixed-term contracts, flexible contracts, the limits on freedom of contract, the collective labour agreement in practice, the right to give instructions and changing terms of employment. Would you like to go through that material with a lawyer present, and with your own contracts on the table? Then take a look at the Employment Contract: Rights and Obligations course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured, what you learn in the three chapters and why this is not legal advice.
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Recognising the employment contractWork, pay and authority, the signals of a relationship of authority, bogus self-employment and the two legal presumptions.
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The written contractFive clauses that do not exist without being put on paper, fixed-term versus permanent contracts and the standard provisions that are due for revision.
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Special clausesThe non-competition and non-solicitation clauses, the ancillary activities clause, the penalty clause and the study costs clause.
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The playing field of employment lawWhere the rules come from, the hierarchy of the sources of law and the life cycle of an employment relationship.
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The recruitment procedureThe job advertisement, the interview, the applicant's duty to disclose and broken-off negotiations.
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The pre-employment medical examinationThe Medical Examinations Act, specific job requirements, health questions without an examination and the right to complain.
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The probationary period clauseThe statutory maximum periods, giving notice during the probationary period and a probationary period in a subsequent contract.
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The chain ruleThe main rule, conversion to a permanent contract, successive employership and the exceptions.
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Extending fixed-term contractsThe duty to notify, tacit continuation and the pitfalls of extension.
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Flexible employment contractsThe on-call contract, the rules for calling staff in, the annual obligation to offer fixed hours and working through a temporary employment agency.
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Limits on freedom of contractFreedom of contract as the starting point, three types of statutory provisions, void or voidable, and review by the court.
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The collective labour agreement in practiceTypes of CAO, when a CAO applies, applying the CAO and its after-effect.
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The employer's right to give instructionsThe scope of the right to give instructions, good employership and good employeeship, and justified refusal to work.
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Changes during employmentChanging terms by agreement, the unilateral variation clause, the Stoof/Mammoet test and practical cases.
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