What is a Contract?
A contract is a legal and binding document that goes through all of the terms and conditions of your contract, for example, an employment contract would go through the hours you are expected to work, how much you should be expected to pay, and other things like how many paid holidays you can have as well as sick days.
Why is a Contract important?
A contract is important because it gaurentees you a job and a certain pay, provided you stay within the guide lines of your contract, this helps to protect both the employee and the employer, so both parties are happy.
What are the diffrent kinds of contracts?
- Part Time
- Full Time
- Fixed Term
- Freelance
- On Completion
- Casual
Part Time
A part time contract is a contract that usually specifies fewer hours than a full time contract, usually being under 30 hours a week, and are often paid half the salary, because they are working half the time.
Full Time
A Full Time contract is a contract that usually specifies that the worker work between 35 and 40 hours a week, and can often reap certain benifits, like health care and other benifits.
Fixed Term
A fixed term contract is when they're employment ends on a certain date, or on completion of a certain project or specific task, these contracts are often used if you are a seasonal or casual employee, a specialist on a certain project, or if you are covering for a maternity leave.
Freelance
A freelance worker means that it is a person that works for themself, and takes contracts from companies, this can be good because it means you are your own boss and you can work your own hours, you can also make a lot of money from freelance work. The downsides are that with your hours being more flexable, you may need to get something finished in a small amount of time, and also work isn't gaurenteed.
On Completion
This form of work contract means that you will be payed upon completion of the work that you have been given, this is good because it means you can work flexable hours but can be bad because you might get a strickt deadline.
Casual
Depending on country, a casual position, compared to part-time or full time, usually equates to higher pay but less certainty of roster/amount of work. Casuals are not entitled to paid sick days/leave. Being a casual in a place where you get enough hours can be quite an advantage, for example for 20 hours work you may make what a full timer makes for 30 hours.
Profesional Behaviour
When working in a profesional enviroment you should act and behave in a certain way, for example, having good manners and puncuality is important.
Some other important traits are:
Being creative
Orginisation
Dressing apropreately
Respectful
Motivated
Having active listening skills
Good leadership skills
Having initiative.
Being able to meet deadlines is important as well as being able to work under presure, this is important because you may need to finish something in a hurry some day and will only have a short amount of time to do it in.
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