International Contracts

In the form of a letter from the employer to the employee, this contract sets out the terms of the employment and expatriate benefits for an executive. Suitable as a basis both for a new recruit and an existing employee who is to be posted overseas.

This eight page contract contains 16 clauses covering

• job title and duties
• commencement and term
• salary
• travel arrangements
• accommodation
• car
• leave
• children’s education
• medical
• sickness
• pensions
• confidentiality
• termination
• restrictions after termination
• notices
• governing law

You need this document if you are an employer looking to send a new or existing employee to an overseas post, and want clarity about the employee’s rights and obligations.

This document is a template for detailing details of flights, hotels, car hire etc, for signing off by a manager prior to an employee travelling on company business.

It can be edited in Word, and adjusted to suit individual requirements and purchase order numbers or accounting codes.

This form should ideally be used alongside the Travel & Expenses policy document (E117) to highlight to employees the type of flights, and hotels they should be booking and which class or value of travel their position allows them to book.

A detailed policy for issuing to all employees regarding UK & international travel and expense claims. Includes policy on use of business class bookings, company charge cards, expenses and petrol claims and authorisation of expenses claims.

This thirteen page document contains 11 clauses covering

• policy
• overview operation of expense claim procedures
• reimbursement of expense claims
• corporate charge cards
• UK travel
• international and domestic air travel
• business and employee entertainment
• hotel accommodation
• other expenses
• expense form completion and authorization
• reimbursement of expenses
• telephone call reimbursement and payment

Use this document if you are an employer whose staff undertake UK or international business travel, and you want a straight-forward policy for travel and expense claims.

This document can be used as a stand alone policy, or in conjunction with the Business Travel Authorisation Form E118 and guide on our website.

This expatriate form of contract is suitable for a company in one country that employs foreign nationals to work for it.

This six page document contains 16 clauses covering

• appointment
• duties of employee
• contract period
• travel
• salary
• accommodation
• leave other benefits
• termination
• dismissal
• overtime
• confidentiality
• taxation
• governing law
• conditional agreement
• scope of the agreement

A detailed Schedule is included, containing a menu of benefits with a number of alternatives (e.g. provision of furnished accommodation or a housing grant) and such matters as settling-in grant, bonus, travel allowances etc. From the information available the company can prepare its own particular schedule.

You need this document if you are a company looking to employ a foreign national.

This Licence is granted by a producer of retail goods to a licensee to manufacture the goods for retail sale in a foreign country.

This nine page document contains 19 clauses covering

• definitions
• grant of licence
• duration
• obligations of licensor
• obligations of licensee
• intellectual property
• royalties
• accounting
• export
• confidentiality
• termination
• force majeure
• assignment and subcontracting
• notices
• scope of the agreement
• waiver
• compliance with local law
• disputes
• applicable law

This Licence is suitable where the company granting the licence (the licensor), provides know-how and technical support to the licensee who undertakes product manufacture and sales.

For a licence agreement more appropriate to an inventor of a product licensing a company to manufacture and sell that product locally or overseas, see our document A126.
 

Summary note on the main requirements of the EU Regulations concerning the appointment of a Commercial Agent, as adopted by the UK Government.

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