Employment Agreement

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• p.1CoverEmployment Agreement between Marlowe & Finch LLP and Imogen Hartley-Voss Dated 11 August 2025 Reference MF-HR-2025-087 Fictional document prepared...
• p.3Parties and backgroundThis Agreement is made on 11 August 2025 between: (1) Marlowe & Finch LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under...
• p.3 §1.1Definitions and interpretationIn this Agreement the following words have the meanings set out below: “Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday...
• p.3-4 §2.1Commencement and probationThe Employee’s employment starts on the Start Date. No employment with a previous employer counts as part of the Employee’s period of continuous...
• p.4 §2.3Commencement and probationDuring the probationary period, including any extension, either party may end the employment by giving the other one week’s written notice. The Firm...
• p.4 §3.1Job title and dutiesThe Employee is employed as a Senior Associate in the Corporate department and reports to the head of that department or to another partner that the...
• p.4 §3.3Job title and dutiesThe Employee shall not, during employment, be employed, engaged or interested in any other business, or act for any other person in a legal capacity,...
• p.4-5 §4.1Place of workThe Employee’s normal place of work is the Firm’s London office. The Firm operates a hybrid working model. The Employee shall attend the London...
• p.5 §4.3Place of workThe Employee shall make sure that, when working remotely, Client information is kept secure and cannot be seen or overheard by anyone else, and shall...
• p.5 §5.1Hours of workThe Employee’s normal hours are 9.00 am to 5.30 pm, Monday to Friday, with an unpaid lunch break of one hour, which is 37.5 hours a week. 5.2 The...
• p.5 §5.3Hours of workThe parties agree that the Employee’s working time is not measured and that, for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998, the Employee is a...
• p.5 §6.1Salary and bonusThe Firm shall pay the Employee a salary of £92,000 a year, in equal monthly instalments in arrears on the last working day of each month, by credit...
• p.5-6 §6.3Salary and bonusThe Employee may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus of up to 20% of salary. Whether a bonus is paid, and its amount, depends on the...
• p.6 §7.1ExpensesThe Firm shall reimburse the Employee for reasonable expenses that the Employee properly incurs in performing their duties, provided that the...
• p.6 §7.3ExpensesThe Firm may require the Employee to repay any expenses or fees that the Firm has paid under clause 7.2 in the 12 months before the Termination Date...
• p.6 §8.1HolidayThe Firm’s holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. The Employee is entitled to 27 working days’ paid holiday in each holiday year, in...
• p.6-7 §8.3HolidayThe Employee may carry forward up to five days of untaken holiday to the next holiday year, to be taken by 31 March. Any other untaken holiday is...
• p.7 §9.1Sickness absenceIf the Employee cannot attend work because of sickness or injury, the Employee shall tell the Firm by 9.30 am on the first day of absence, giving the...
• p.7 §9.3Sickness absenceAfter the probationary period, the Firm shall pay the Employee their normal salary during sickness absence for up to eight weeks in any period of 12...
• p.7 §9.5Sickness absenceThe Firm may ask the Employee to be examined by a doctor that the Firm chooses, at the Firm’s expense, and the Employee agrees that the doctor may...
• p.7 §10.1Pension and other benefitsThe Firm shall enrol the Employee in its workplace pension scheme, in accordance with the law. If the Employee pays at least 4% of salary into the...
• p.7 §10.3Pension and other benefitsThe Firm may end or change any benefit under clause 10.2 on reasonable notice. The Firm is not liable to provide a benefit if the insurer refuses...
• p.8 §11.1Confidentiality and client privilegeThe Employee shall keep confidential, both during employment and after it ends, all Confidential Information, and shall not use it other than to...
• p.8 §11.3Confidentiality and client privilegeClause 11.1 does not prevent the Employee from making a protected disclosure under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, from disclosing...
• p.8 §12.1Intellectual propertyAll documents, precedents, know-how, designs and other work that the Employee creates in the course of employment, and all intellectual property...
• p.8 §13.1Restrictive covenantsIn this clause 13 “Restricted Period” means the periods stated in this clause, each starting on the Termination Date and each reduced by any period...
• p.8 §13.3Restrictive covenantsThe Employee shall not, for 12 months after the Termination Date, directly or indirectly solicit or entice away from the Firm any Client, or try to...
• p.9 §13.5Restrictive covenantsThe Employee shall not, for 12 months after the Termination Date, solicit or entice away any partner, lawyer or senior member of staff of the Firm...
• p.9 §13.7Restrictive covenantsThe Employee agrees that the restrictions are reasonable and necessary to protect the Firm’s legitimate business interests, and shall give a copy of...
• p.9 §14.1Notice and terminationAfter the probationary period, either party may end the employment by giving the other three months’ written notice. 14.2 The Firm may end the...
• p.9 §14.3Notice and terminationThe Firm may also end the employment immediately, without notice or payment in lieu, if the Employee loses the right to practise, is disqualified...
• p.9 §14.5Notice and terminationThe Employee’s employment ends automatically on the last day of the month in which the Employee reaches the Firm’s retirement age as notified to the...
• p.10 §15.1Garden leaveAfter either party has given notice to end the employment, or if the Employee resigns without giving the notice that this Agreement requires, the...
• p.10 §15.3Garden leaveThe Firm may require the Employee to take any accrued holiday during Garden Leave. 15.4 During Garden Leave the Firm may appoint another person to...
• p.10 §16.1Return of propertyOn the Firm’s request at any time, and in any event on the Termination Date or the start of Garden Leave, the Employee shall return to the Firm all...
• p.10-11 §17.1Data protection and monitoringThe Firm shall process the Employee’s personal data in accordance with its employee privacy notice, which the Employee has received, and with the...
• p.11 §18.1Disciplinary and grievance proceduresThe Firm’s disciplinary and grievance procedures are set out in its staff handbook and are not part of this Agreement. The Firm shall follow the ACAS...
• p.11 §19.1GeneralThis Agreement is the entire agreement between the parties about the Employee’s employment and replaces any earlier agreement or understanding,...
• p.11 §19.3GeneralNo collective agreement affects the Employee’s employment. 19.4 The Employee warrants that they are not bound by any restriction, including any...
• p.12 §20.1Governing law and jurisdictionThis Agreement, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it (including non-contractual disputes or claims), is governed by the...
• p.13ExecutionThis Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of it. Signed for and on behalf of Marlowe & Finch LLP: Signature | Date...