Employment offer letter template
Offer of employment to a new employee, in the form of an offer letter from the employer, which the new employee may accept by signing and returning employment contract to be enclosed with the letter.
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When do I use this document?
- for a written offer to a prospective new employee
- where the letter will be accompanied with the employee’s employment contract
What are the key features?
- offer letter from new employer
- provision for inclusion of principal employment terms (position, salary, working days if part time)
- to be accompanied by contract of employment
- offer is subject to conditions:
- satisfactory references being received by employer from two personal referees, including current employer
- demonstration by employee of right to work in the UK
- others to be specified (eg production of professional qualifications or driving licence)
- acceptance by employee by signing and returning contract of employment by specified date
What else do I need to know?
Usually following an interview process, the employer may wish to send a formal offer of employment to the new employee.
The offer letter is a binding legal offer from the new employer, capable of acceptance by the individual in accordance with its terms and usually within a specified period. If not accepted within that period, the offer will lapse.
Acceptance may be stated to be subject to a number of conditions, including:
- employment being on the terms of an employment contract which is included with the offer letter
- the employer taking up one or more satisfactory references regarding the individual, including from the individual’s current employer
What other documents are available?
For forms of employment contract for either a junior or senior employee, see:
When do I use this document?
- secured loan agreement for a secured loan of a fixed amount to be drawn in a single advance
- for a borrower which is a company incorporated in England and Wales
- for a loan repayable on a single repayment date or in instalments
What are the key features?
- easy to edit, with 21 clauses over 13 pages
- single advance of specified loan amount
- regular interest payments at either fixed or floating interest rate by reference to specified bank’s base rate of interest
- repayment either on a single repayment date or in instalments
- undertakings from the borrower, including to provide information to the lender and prohibition on granting security and additional borrowings
- events of default, including a failure by the borrower to repay the loan or interest, leading to the lender having the right to demand immediate repayment
What else do I need to know?
The security would need to be created and governed by a separate security document between the borrower and the lender, depending on the nature of the secured property or assets. Examples of security documents include:
- a charge over property
- a charge over shares
- a debenture, containing fixed and floating charges over all of the borrower’s assets and undertaking
What other documents are available?
For a form of unsecured loan document, see
For forms of unsecured and secured facility agreements, for advances of loans in several lump sums, see
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