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Drafting Service Agreements, 2nd edition

Drafting Service Agreements, 2nd edition

Author: Eugene Wojciechowski; Katy Meves; Jennifer Featherstone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781847662866
Published In: March 2010
Format: Hardback + CD-ROM , 248 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Ensure you are drafting your service agreements correctly...

Drafting Service Agreements, 2nd edition is designed as a practical book for use in negotiation and preparation of service agreements for senior employees. It also examines bonus structures and new legislation including TUPE 2006, varying and terminating employment contracts, and consultancy and secondment agreements.

Benefit from the practical content and format

This latest edition will provide you with a thorough understanding of the negotiation and preparation of service agreements, taking you through the practical and commercial aspect at every stage. Each element of the service agreement is examined with the relevant legislation enabling you to fully grasp current employment and immigration law.

Not only will you be able to draft secondment and consultancy agreements, this book will show you how to prevent claims being raised at the end of employment through the use of compromise agreements.

Key Features:

Updated to Companies Act 2006 (company directors) and TUPE 2006
New regulatory materials and codes of practice
Practical, comprehensive guidance on drafting service agreements
Looks at the relationship between employee and employer negotiations and the commercial impact on agreements
Written by a team of employment specialises at Shoosmiths
Includes a CD-Rom containing a comprehensive set of precedents covering the subject

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The basics
Chapter 3 Terms of engagement and clauses to consider
Chapter 4 Relocation and overseas employment
Chapter 5 Absence
Chapter 6 Intellectual property
Chapter 7 Protecting confidential information, restrictive covenants and garden leave
Chapter 8 Company directors
Chapter 9 Variation, transfers and termination agreements
Chapter 10 Special cases and miscellaneous terms
Chapter 11 Legislation and Codes of Practice

Appendix 1 Precedents
Appendix 2 Forms and clauses
Appendix 3 Employment Rights Act 1996 c 18 (extracts)
Appendix 4 Codes of practice and guidance

Eugene Wojciechowski is a partner in the employment team at Shoosmiths and has several years’ experience specialising in employment law and advising on a full range of employment matters.

Katy Meves is an employment law specialist at Shoosmiths. Her experience includes advising on the employment and pensions aspects of transactions (in particular TUPE); engagement and dismissal of senior executives; advising on employment disputes and negotiating compromise agreements.

Jennifer Featherstone is a solicitor in the employment team at Shoosmiths, advising both employers and individuals on various areas of employment law, including drafting and negotiating termination agreements, employment tribunal claims and judicial mediations.