The Five Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do This Year

1. Get an employment contract written and start using it

There are dozens of reasons that every employer should get their employees to sign an employment contract before they start work. It is the route by which employers:

• define ahead of time what they will have to pay employees that they terminate,
• impose restrictions that stop employees from poaching your staff or clients after they leave you,
• reserve rights that you may need to resort to later in the relationship, and
• set the parameters of the relationship in every way.

Failing to have a good solid contract of employment signed by all your employees will be very expensive and aggravating in the long run.

• Every business that has ever retained us to defend them in litigation arising out of a termination where there was no employment contract has, immediately thereafter, hired us to prepare contracts and policies for their employees. In almost every case the cost of preparing the contract was