employment contract
- noun
- /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt ˈkɒntrækt/
- Formal
- Before starting her new job, she carefully reviewed the terms of her employment contract with the company.
- terms of employment contract
In summary, a non compete clause or covenant not to compete often appears in an employment contract or a sale of a business.
- In summary, a non compete clause or covenant not to compete often appears in an employment contract or a sale of a business.
- Keep searching until you have signed up for a job, until the ink has dried on an employment contract.
- Hot issues are things like privacy and data collection, free speech on social media platforms, modern day employment contracts, and so on.
Examples
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These are standard employment contracts.
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However, in this case, the employment contract may be terminated only one month after the fact of such an event.
Academic text (2018) -
Every team must complete an employment contract by the second week of class.
Academic text (2005) -
The policy shall be valid for the full term of the employment contract.
Academic text (2018) -
Five-year employment contract for both of them.
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Berkowitz says a foreign company recently asked him to review a standard form employment contract.
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However, human rights discrimination provisions are difficult to draft in an employment contract.
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Third, the EC has proposed a law setting out the minimum conditions for a standard employment contract.
Academic text (1990) -
For local government staff transferred to the private sector, their existing employment contract is protected under TUPE.
Academic text (2011) -
Check your employment contract.
Synonyms
A written agreement between people or companies that the law can enforce
A promise made between two or more people, often written
A legal contract that sets rules for a bond or for hired work
An agreement between workers and their employer that says pay, benefits and work rules
A written contract between workers and the company about pay and working rules
A signed paper that shows the employer's and employee's pay, duties and job rules
How Binding
- UK
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'employment' (the state or activity of being employed) with 'contract' (a written agreement); together they denote a contract about employment terms. This noun–noun composition is a regular, cross‑linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Employment contract comes from a simple picture: a boss and a worker sit down and sign a written promise about the 'job'. The word contract means a written 'agreement' and employment means the 'job', so employment contract now means the formal paper that explains the rules of working.