Bonus payment clauseOnly include a bonus payment clause in your contract of employment if you actually intend to pay a bonus to the particular employee. It's also always safer to make bonus payments discretionary rather than contractual entitlements, ... Read more

Approved English apprenticeship agreementEmployers are allowed to employ apprentices on contracts of employment, rather than on contracts of apprenticeship, subject to complying with specified conditions. Our approved English apprenticeship agreement... Read more

Apprenticeship agreementEmployers are allowed to employ apprentices on contracts of employment, rather than on contracts of apprenticeship, subject to complying with a number of specified conditions. Our apprenticeship agreement complies with those c... Read more

Bonus payment letterWhere you decide to pay a discretionary bonus to an employee, use our bonus payment letter to notify them of this and the amount.Fair exercise of discretionWhere the payment of a bonus is expressed to be discretionary, you still h... Read more

Offer of paid internship letterOur offer of paid internship letter is for use where you're offering paid work experience when the intern is a worker but isn't an employee. It's not suitable where the intern is, in reality, an employee. At the other end ... Read more

Adoption leave and pay policyTaking time off for adoption leave is still a relatively rare occurrence but it's worth having a policy to let employees know their entitlements. In most cases, this will be by reference to the statutory rights.Adoption le... Read more