Overview
Throughout our Build a Better Employment Agreement series, we have explored the contract terms, drafting strategies, and practical issues that help employers reduce risk and strengthen their employment practices. From implementing new contracts and revisiting key clauses to managing amendments, incentive language, restrictive covenants, hybrid work terms, fixed-term arrangements, and the role of policies, each session has focused on how clear and current agreement language can help avoid common and costly errors.
Format
In this complimentary 1-hour year-end wrap-up webinar, we’ll bring together the key takeaways from our past five employment agreement sessions and highlight what employers should keep top of mind when reviewing, refreshing, or rolling out employment agreement templates. We’ll also address an important drafting question that often gets overlooked: what should not be included in an employment agreement.
Topics to be covered include:
- Key lessons from the year’s employment agreement sessions, including recurring drafting risks and practical takeaways for employers
- What not to include in an employment agreement—and when an issue is better addressed through a policy, plan document, or separate communication
- Common pressure points in bonus, incentive, repayment, and other monetary terms
- How to approach contract updates, amendments, consideration, and rollout strategy
- Drafting considerations for termination provisions, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, conflict of interest, and solicitation language
- Agreement language for hybrid work, benefits, probation periods, discipline, investigations, and resignations
- Best practices for fixed-term, seasonal, rolling term, and contract extension arrangements
Audience and Learning Objectives
This session is designed for in-house counsel, human resources professionals, and anyone involved in drafting, updating, or implementing employment agreements within their organization. Attendees will leave with a practical year-end checklist of issues to revisit in their templates, a clearer understanding of when agreement language may create unnecessary risk, and guidance on how to prioritize updates for the year ahead.