Personal Assistant Employment Contract (Individual Employer)

This Personal Assistant Employment Contract (Individual Employer Version) is for use by an individual who employs a personal assistant to work in their home or office.

Employers must provide workers and employees with a written statement of their main terms and conditions of employment, often known as a Standard Form Section One Statement. This contract covers those requirements and must be provided to the employee or worker by day one of employment.

Use this contract for the individual employer and personal assistant relationship

Because this is often a close working relationship, the contract includes provisions intended to help deal with disagreements in a straightforward way. For example, it makes clear that the personal assistant will need to work flexible hours and that any additional hours will not attract overtime payment.

Pay, deductions, benefits and confidentiality

The contract specifies the sums that can be deducted from the personal assistant’s salary to help avoid misunderstandings. It also includes an optional clause covering health insurance and other benefits.

It contains an enhanced confidentiality clause to reflect that the employee may have access to sensitive personal information.

Statutory statement and additional protections

This Personal Assistant Employment Contract (Individual Employer Version) covers the requirements of a Standard Form Section One Statement as set out in the Employment Rights Act 1996. It also includes additional clauses intended to provide greater protection to the employer and to address the personal nature of the relationship between an individual employer and a personal assistant.

What the contract helps you cover

The contract is designed to record the main employment terms for this type of arrangement, including start date and continuous employment, duties, hours and place of work (including work outside the UK), pay, benefits, expenses and deductions, car arrangements, holidays and other paid leave, training, sickness absence, pension, health insurance and other benefits (where included), maternity and paternity leave, exclusivity of service, confidentiality, workplace procedures, termination of employment, employer’s property, health and safety, severability, governing law and the employee’s right to work in the UK.

Pension clause update

The Pensions Act 2014 introduced a new state pension for people reaching state pension age on or after 6 April 2016, replacing the previous basic state pension and additional state pension and ending contracting out for defined-benefit schemes. This employment contract has been updated accordingly with the removal of the clause referring to the contracting out certificate.

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