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What Landscaping Business Owners Must Know About Using Fixed-Term Contracts Of Employment
If you own a landscaping company, we assume that you do not have to do every task and job yourself and as such you employ others within your business. When employing landscapers you have several options as to what type of employment you offer them which includes full-time or part-time positions, and you can also offer either a normal employment contract or a fixed-term contract. It is the latter, a fixed-term contract, that we are going to examine further.
Fixed Term Contracts Explained
The concept is very simple and more or less explained by what they are called. A fixed-term contract is one where the period over which the individual’s employment with you has finite time which is defined within their contract. Their use includes when a business has periods when it is extremely busy and others when they are quieter. A prime example of this is a retailer who may employ fixed-term staff to help over the busy Christmas period but no longer than that.
Whilst landscaping can be somewhat seasonal, with such a business you are more likely to use a fixed-term contract based on specific projects. For example, you might have a landscape design project which requires more manpower than most jobs so you might take on one or two more employees to work on that landscaping project until its completion with a fixed-term contract as the basis of their employment.