Lawrite Employment Law software - templates for contracts of employment and staff handbooks with letters, forms, law guides

Lawrite Employment Law software has been used by thousands of business owners and managers in the UK to produce employment contracts and staff handbooks for their employees and as a reference guide to employment law and HR issues.

It is also used by many HR professionals who value the range of quality template documents and useful guides, which backup their own skills and knowledge.

Lawrite Employment Law software is one of the UK's leading employment law solutions, with more than 43,800 copies sold*.

The latest version 25 - released November 2008 - includes a new health and safety law manual containing more than 170 pages of clear and useful guidance for employers, plus stand-alone guides to redundancy, the redundancy procedure, TUPE - transfer of undertakings, and changes to the dispute resolution procedures due to take effect in 2009.

The software is available on its own, licensed by annual subscription priced according to the number of people employed, or with added legal support as part of the Lawrite Employment Law and Lawrite Employment Law Plus services.

The software works through the user's web browser and seamlessly combines locally-stored pages, PDF guides and manuals and document templates with web-based news, information and update files.

Its many features include:

• Employment law, health and safety law and HR advice and template documents
• You can produce contracts of employment and staff handbooks from templates
• You can produce a health and safety policy statement from templates
• Templates for many different letters to employees and forms for HR procedures
• More than 450 pages of advice and guides
• More than 120 document templates
• Regular news and updates through built-in link to web-based content - all the advantages of an online service with core content and templates stored locally for uninterrupted access even when you can't get online.

The content includes:

Contracts and agreements:

• Short contract of employment
• Long contract of employment
• Additional clauses
• Statement of terms and conditions
• Contract for senior staff
• Director's service agreement
• Contractor's agreement
• Confidentiality agreement
• Job descriptions

Policies and procedures:

• Conduct policy
• Disciplinary procedure
• Grievance procedure
• Performance review procedure
• Absence from work and sickness policy and procedure
• Holiday policy
• Time off for dependants policy
• Parental leave policy
• Maternity leave policy
• Paternity leave policy
• Adoption leave policy
• Flexible working policy
• Equal opportunities policy
• Disability discrimination policy
• Health and safety policy
• E-mail and internet policy
• Data protection policy
• Whistle-blowing policy
• Smoke-free policy
• Retirement policy
• Redundancy policy
• Alcohol and drug misuse policy
• Stress at work policy - new for v25
• Conflict of interest policy - new for v25
• Sabbaticals policy - new for v25

Letters and forms to deal with:

• Contract amendment
• Disciplinary and performance review procedures
• Dismissal
• Grievance procedure
• Redundancy procedure
• Retirement procedure
• Family-friendly procedures
• Employment and recruitment
• Data protection
• Access to medical records
• Flexible working

Health and safety templates:

• Health and safety policy statement
• Health and safety risk assessment form
• Health and safety checklist
• Medical questionnaire

Guides and information:

• Employment law manual
• Health and safety law manual - new for v25
• A to Z quick reference employment law guide
• HR guide for employers
• Lawrite template documents guide
• Age discrimination guide
• Maternity leave at a glance guide
• Family-friendly policies at a glance guide
• Stand-alone guide to redundancy - new for v25
• Stand-alone guide to making someone redundant - new for v25
• Stand-alone guide to TUPE - new for v25
• Stand-alone guide to repeal of statutory dispute resolution procedures - new for v25