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5 Employment Contract Clauses You Should Always Check
Draw your line in the sand, stick to your guns, and know your worth.
Employment contracts commonly contain a whole host of obfuscated and deliberately misleading clauses. These are usually designed to get the most work they can out of an employee for as little company effort and resources as possible, but primarily they’re designed to favour the company in any one of a range of likely future scenarios.
These commonly include such things as “work on such duties as specified by a manger” or “work at any office location as dictated by the company” which in turn give the company leeway to fundamentally tell you do to anything at any of their offices in perpetuity.
As said, employment contracts are always written with maximum advantage to the company and clauses such as those outlined above are commonplace, and probably not worth fighting over as it’s just easier to leave if the company decides you’re washing the CEO’s cars instead of writing JavaScript¹ or have to relocate to an unair-conditioned² Portakabin in the Sahara desert for several years.
So, fellow progressive engineer, what can you do when faced with odd sounding clauses when your due diligence is at a loss for seeing their real reason of inclusion in your contract?
