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How Your Hoodie Brand Benefits from Understanding Employee Contracts

If you focus on creating high quality products like Bancstac does with their hoodies then we hope you find this relevant. Like any business, e-commerce brands like Bancstac need to be able to communicate to their employees on what their responsibilities are and what can happen if they fail to live up to the expectations set by the company. The duties of an employee contract lawyer are to draft both contract types and to be familiar with how they should be used in the context of a small e-commerce business relationship. This can help improve business efficiency and avoid misunderstandings or worse left unclarified by the contract or an employee. Failure to use any contracts for your employees can lead to disputes or misunderstandings related to what they can or cannot do on the job and you’ll hear unexpected termination of employment situations where the employee hires a law firm to conduct a wrongful dismissal. So get a lawyer on board that can help you absolutely avoid this.

There are actually two types of employee contracts used which can benefit a clothing brand: one for full-time employees and one for part-time employees. Common terms of employment to clarify include: The terms you use, and the strength of their legal authority, depend on your localized laws so make sure you contact a law firm that has relevant experience. The implications of failing to have a contract can be quite severe as a result and can drag out a conflict for years with each party unwilling to budge – we cannot stress enough how important having a written contract is.

From the perspective of an e-commerce brand like Bancstac, the duties of an employee contract lawyer go beyond simply drafting the language to be used, it also involves guiding you on the practical applications of the contract, how to enforce your rights if necessary, and how to ensure you did not draft a contract that is void due to attempting to mislead the employee or otherwise overstepping bounds such as the implied duty of good faith. In our experience with small e-commerce brands, we find that a basic understanding of the following is required by the founders/owners to make an informed decision on how contract terms will reflect their business’ operational model and application of the law: Unfortunately, some e-commerce brands take this advice for granted and see the cost of amending a contract as more of an expense than ensuring their investment in a legal relationship pays off. All too often we see clients return having lost the relationship with the specific employee and are only interested in if they could get them back without releasing details of what went wrong. Yet they never want to invest the time in preventative measures even though these steps would have legitimately saved them thousands of dollars.

For more information on employee contracts and their importance, you can visit the U.S. Department of Labor.