Employment Contracts and Independent Contractor Agreements

Achieving your career goals may require you to change jobs. However, you may be giving up a secure job with a good salary and employee benefits when you accept another employment offer. Will your new employer live up to the oral promises made to you? Although changing jobs always carries some risks, we believe that a carefully negotiated and drafted employment contract is your best protection.

If you are a independent contractor or contract worker, you are probably providing services to several or even many companies. When you accept an assignment, you and the company for whom you are agreeing to provide services each have expectations and obligations. If there is no signed written agreement expressing a clear understanding as to each parties’ rights and obligations, what will the parties refer to should a misunderstanding or disagreement occur ? Unresolved disputes may lead to undesirable results such as non-payment, early termination by either party before completion of the project, the "employer’s" requests for unanticipated additional services without additional compensation, or the independent contractor’s requests for additional compensation which the "employer" did not anticipate and considers to be unreasonable.

These misunderstandings may create an unpleasant working environment or business relationship, and could possibly result in a lawsuit. Our goal is to minimize misunderstandings and thereby avoid lawsuits, rather than to engage in expensive, and time consuming litigation.

Although we cannot guarantee that all your expectations will be fulfilled to your satisfaction, we strongly believe that a carefully negotiated and drafted independent contractor agreement is the best protection for both the "employer" and the independent contractor.

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