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Employment Contract Tool

Employment Contract Tool

Build your own employment contract, for an employee under Australia's Fair Work System, that is tailored to your business needs.

Who can use it

This tool helps small business employers to make a basic employment contract that complies with workplace laws. Use it to create a contract for an employee under the national industrial relations system. You can use it for full-time, part-time and casual employees to whom a modern award applies.

In the tool you'll find:

  • conditions that you must provide to your employee
  • optional clauses to help set expectations and protect your business.

To use this tool, you'll need to pay your employee an hourly or weekly wage. We don't provide for salaries in the tool due to their complex requirements.

This tool isn't suitable for some types of workers

Find information on contracts for:

Time to complete

  • Around 30 minutes.

What you'll need

Protecting your privacy

We will delete all information you provide 3 hours after you finish your session.

What you'll get

Once you complete the tool, you can download your employment contract and a letter of offer in a word document.

You will need to add in personal details such as your ABN, names and signatures to finalise your contract.