The employment contract needs to benefit both the employer and the employee. It helps to clarify the rights and obligations of the two parties. An employer can follow these best practices outlined below to make sure they are creating well-defined contracts using an automatic contract maker.
It is important that the person reviewing or expected to sign the contract knows what they are looking at. Ensure your simple contract template includes the name of the company in the title for clarity as well as branding purposes.
Include a clause that identifies who is entering an employment contract. The full name of the employee should be used as well as the registered name of the organization offering the contract.
The labor laws of a country or state will dictate some of the terms and conditions stated in this section. These may include work hours, benefits, and severance packages. Be sure about the jurisdiction laws as you write this section. It is also possible to include in-house terms such as dress code and other policies as long as they do not go against labor laws.
Clearly outline the responsibilities of the employee when you create the contract so that there is no doubt about what is expected of them and they can determine if they can live up to what is expected of them. It is best to start with the responsibilities that require the most attention or even provide percentages to let them know how much attention needs to be paid to certain duties.
The new hire needs to know what will be reflected on their paycheck before payday. Clearly provide details of their compensation and any deductions that might be made. Details to include here are:
To avoid unnecessary court proceedings, include procedures to resolve disputes that may arise. This saves time and preserves relationships between employers and employees.
Let the new hire know what to look forward to when they sign the contract. The agreement should not only be beneficial to the employer. Many companies are looking to hire skilled persons and to edge out the competition, add incentives to the contract so that it is your contract that gets accepted.
Even though you intend to have them sign an NDA, it is important to let the employees know that company secrets should not be shared with outsiders. A brief clause about this with description of what may be considered confidential will suffice. A more detailed NDA document can be attached to the agreement if there is need for the employee to sign one.
Unless you are hiring a lawyer, it is best to leave out legalese language and stick to conventional employment terms that will not create ambiguity when interpreting the contract. If the contract ever ends up in front of a judge, it should be evident that the author made every effort to ensure it can be understood.
Do not include clauses that can be unfair to the employee. Non-compete clauses may not be necessary at times. For example, you cannot ask employees at a restaurant never to work for a competitor. Unfair clauses will deter employees from taking on the employment.
Do not give the employee a contract to sign on the same day they are expected to start work. A week or two should be given for them to read through, consult a lawyer about all the clauses and then they can sign it. This means you should be able to create contracts fast and send them to the new hire in time.
Not every company can afford legal counsel to draft employee contracts every time they make a new hire. For this reason, it is advisable to create templates for different contracts and these can be used whenever you need to hire a new employee. Templates will get the work done faster and will avoid errors. More companies today are adopting document automation as a best practice for creating different documents.
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Adds various capabilities such as inequalities,descending sort, joins, and other functions.
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Added a Query tab as a field for typing or pasting in a select statement
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All tags using that Data source will be automatically updated with that name.
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New single interface to replace 2 separate dialog boxes
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Displays of all the tags in the template, structured as they are placed in the template. This provides a simple & intuitive way to see the structure of your template. Also provides the capability to go to any tag and/or see the properties of any tag.
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The ability to integrate the Windward Engine into Google’s cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications dubbed Google Applications Engine (GAE).
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This new integration will allow for processing of complex scripts and bi-directional text such as Arabic. Your PDF output will be much tighter and more closely match your template, and we’ll be able to respond rapidly to PDF requests and fixes.
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Includes support for new ForEach and slide break handling, table header row repeat across slide breaks, and native Microsoft support for charts and images.
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Tags are color coded in the template by type, making it easy to visually identify them.
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Version 13’s core code has been reworked and optimized to offer a reduced memory footprint, faster PDF generation and full documentation of supported features and limitations in the specifications for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX.
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Documents can include advanced Word image properties such as shadows, borders, and styles.
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Windward has updated HTML output to reflect changing HTML standards.
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Windward now works with a slew of new datasources: MongoDB, JSON, Cassandra, OData, Salesforce.com
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The Generate Code tool in the designer allows you to open an existing template and, with a click of a button, automatically create a window with the code needed to run your current template with all data sources and variables. Simply copy this code and paste into your application's code in the appropriate place. You now have Windward integrated into your application.
You only need to do this once. You do not do this for each template. Instead, where it has explicit files for the template and output, change that to parameters you pass to this code. Same for the parameters passed to Windward. This example uses explicit values to show you what to substitute in where.
Any pivot tables in an XLSX template are carried over to the XLSX output. The ranges in the pivot ranges are adjusted to match the generated output. So your final XLSX will have pivot tables set as expected in the generated file.
This makes creating an XLSX workbook with pivot tables trivial.
In an imported sub-template, if its properties for a style (ex. Normal) differ from the parent template's properties for the style, the use in the sub-template can be set to either use the properties in the sub-template, or the properties in the parent.
You set to retain when you don't want the child template's styling to change when imported. You set to use the parent when you want the styling of the imported template to match the styling in the parent.
Any explicit styling is always retained. This only impacts styling set by styles.
Tags can be placed in text boxes. Including linked text boxes. This gives you the ability to set the text in a textbox from your data.
Tags can be placed in shapes & smart art. This gives you the ability to set the text in a shape from your data.
When generating HTML output, the engine can either write bitmaps as distinct files the generate HTML references, or it can embed the images in the HTML providing a single file for the output.
You can place tags in pretty much any part of a template, including in footnotes & endnotes.
Any parts of a DOCX or XLSX (PowerPoint does not support this) file that are locked in the template, will be locked the same in the output.
If a font used in the template does not exist on the server generating a report, the font to substitute can be specified.
In addition, if a glyph to be rendered does not exist in the font specified, you can specify the replacement font. This can be set distinctly for European, Bi-Directional, and Far East fonts.
If you need this - it's essential. And if you don't need it, it's irrelevant.
Windward enables you to build a document by applying multiple datasources to the template simultaneously. When Windward is merging the data into a template, it processes the template by handling each tag in order, and each tag pulls from different datasources. (As opposed to processing all of one datasource, then processing the next.)
This allows the select tag to use data from another datasource in its select. For example, if you are pulling customer information from one data source, you can then pull data from the sales datasource using the customer ID of the customer presently processing to pull the sales information for that customer. If you're interested in patching together your data from multiple datasources, read this post on our blog.
