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HDDA LTD
1 Parties
1.1 HDDA Ltd (company number 07607743) whose registered office is situated at Gate House, No.1 St Johns Square,
London EC1M 4DH (“the Company”).
3 Job Title
You are employed as JOB TITLE The use of this job title does not indicate any limitation on your duties or job
function.
5 Place of Work
YOUR NORMAL PLACE OF WORK IS GATE HOUSE, NO.1 ST JOHNS SQUARE, LONDON EC1M 4DH.
However, you may be required to work at any other place designated by the Company within the UK, as the
Company may from time to time require. You may also be required to travel to any location within the United
Kingdom on the Company's business and upon reasonable notice, overseas.
6 Salary
6.1 Your basic salary £00,000.00 per annum, and, subject to the deduction of income tax and National Insurance, this
will be paid monthly in arrears on not later than the first working day of each calendar month.
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6.2 Increases are not awarded automatically and the Company is not required to give reasons for any decisions relating
to salary review.
6.3 You authorise the Company to deduct from any remuneration accrued and due to you or from any pay in lieu of
notice, any overpayment of salary, expenses or payments made by mistake or through any misrepresentation or any
debts or other sums which require to be authorised under Section 13 of the ERA.
8 Hours of Work
8.1 Your normal working hours will be 9.30 am to 6 pm on weekdays with one hour for lunch daily. It is to be
expected that, from time to time, you may be required to work such additional hours as are necessary to fulfil your
duties without further remuneration and this should be regarded as a normal circumstance of professional work.
8.2 You agree that this may involve your working over the 48 hours per week limit set out in the Working Time
Regulations 1998 (“the Regulations”). If you no longer agree to work more than the 48 hours per week limit set out
in the Regulations, you must provide the Company with 3 months’ prior written notice.
8.3 All time worked should be entered in the computerised diary system. This diary must be filled out regularly and
accurately for the purpose of job running.
9 Holidays
9.1 You will be entitled to 20 days’ holiday plus statutory bank holidays in each complete calendar year of service.
Additionally, the Company closes its office between Christmas and New Year and you will not be expected to
attend work in this period nor will any working day in this period be deducted from your holiday entitlement. The
holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December each year. Holiday should not be taken during your probationary
period unless exceptional circumstances exist. Where you have worked less than a complete holiday year your
holiday entitlement will be pro rated.
9.2 Holidays must be taken at a time authorised by a director; one month’s notice is required for all holidays exceeding
two weeks and at least one week’s notice must be given for shorter holidays. You agree that the holiday notice
provisions contained in the Regulations shall not apply to you.
9.3 On termination of your employment, any holiday entitlement which has accrued at that date will normally be paid
less any holiday entitlement already taken. Holidays will accrue at the rate of 1 2/3 days per month for these
purposes. Payment for each accrued day is calculated as 1/260ths of your annual salary. A sum in respect of any
days' holiday taken in excess of entitlement as at the date of termination will be deducted from your final salary
(which you hereby authorise) and any excess will be recoverable from you direct.
9.4 A maximum of five days’ holiday may be carried over from one holiday year to the next and payment will be made
in respect of any remaining accrued outstanding holiday at the end of the holiday year on the basis set out in Clause
9.2 above.
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11 Disciplinary and Grievance Procedure
11.1 You should refer to the Company Handbook for a copy of the Company’s non-contractual disciplinary rules
applicable to you.
11.2 You should refer to the Company Handbook for a copy of the Company’s non-contractual grievance procedure.
12 Confidential Information
12.1 You shall not either during your employment (other than in the proper course of your duties and for the benefit of
the Company) or after your employment has ended for any reason whatsoever:
(a) use, disclose or communicate to any person any Confidential Information which you shall have come to
know or have received or obtained at any time (before or after the date of this Contract) by reason of or
in connection with your employment with the Company; or
(b) copy or reproduce in any form or by or on any media or device or allow others access to or to copy or
reproduce recorded information whether or not in documentary form ("Documents") containing or
referring to Confidential Information.
12.2 All Documents containing or referring to Confidential Information at any time in your control or possession are and
shall at all times remain the absolute property of the Company and you undertake, both during your employment
and afterwards:
(a) to exercise due care and diligence to avoid any unauthorised publication, disclosure or use of
Confidential Information and any Documents containing or referring to it;
(b) to deliver up any Confidential Information (including all copies of all Documents whether or not lawfully
made or obtained) or to delete Confidential Information from any re-usable medium; and
(c) to do such things and sign such documents at the expense of the Company as shall be reasonably
necessary to give effect to this clause and/or to provide evidence that it has been complied with.
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13 Unauthorised publications and communications
You shall not, without the prior approval of a director of the Company concerning the Company’s activities, your
employment or information you have become privy to by virtue of your employment:
14 Other Employment
14.1 During your employment you shall not either on your own behalf or on behalf of any person, firm or company:
(a) solicit or endeavour to entice away from the Company an actual employee, or discourage from being
employed by the Company any person who, to your knowledge, is an employee or a prospective
employee of the Company; or
(b) employ or procure another person to employ any such person; or
(c) engage in any other activity during or outside your working hours with the Company which is of such a
nature as to conflict with the commercial interests of the Company or in any way affects your ability to
perform your duties under this Agreement.
14.2 The restrictions set out in this Clause 14 are without prejudice to any other fiduciary duties owed to the Company
whether express or implied.
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15.4 The period of the restrictions in Clauses 15.1, 15.2(a), 15.2(b), 15.2(c) and 15.3 shall be reduced by the period, if
any, spent by you during which you are precluded from attending the Company’s premises, from contacting clients,
customers, suppliers or agents of the Company and are not in receipt of Confidential Information in accordance with
clause 14.6(a).
15.5 You agree that the restrictions in Clauses 15.1, 15.2(a), 15.2(b), 15.2(c) 15.3 and 15.4 are separate and distinct, are
to be construed separately, and are reasonable as regards duration, extent and application for the protection of the
legitimate business interests of the Company. However, in the event that either restriction shall be found to be void
or unenforceable but would be valid or enforceable if some part or parts of them were deleted or the period or area
of application reduced, you agree that the restrictions shall apply with such modification(s) as may be necessary to
make them valid and effective.
16 Notice of Termination
16.1 Your employment will continue, unless terminated earlier under Clause 16.2, until terminated by you giving to the
Company not less than one month’s (four weeks) notice in writing to expire at any time or by the Company giving
to you not less than one month’s (four weeks) notice, subject always to the provisions of the ERA.
16.2 The Company may at any time terminate your employment with immediate effect, without a payment in lieu of
notice, (or by such longer period of notice as the Company shall see fit) by giving you written notice if you:
(a) are guilty of dishonesty or misconduct or incompetence or of wilful failure to comply with instructions
reasonably given by the Company or any other Group Company pursuant to your employment;
(b) are unable through sickness or injury for a continuous period of 90 days or for an aggregate period of 90
days in the preceding 12 months to carry out your duties;
(c) become bankrupt or apply for a receiving order or have a receiving order made against you or make any
composition with creditors or commit any act whereby you shall become subject to the provisions of the
bankruptcy laws;
(d) suffer from a mental disorder or become of unsound mind or become a Patient as defined in either
Section 112 or Section 145 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or are admitted to a hospital in pursuance of
an application made under Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983.
16.3 The Company if it has reason to suspect that any one or more of the events set out in Clause 15.2 has or may have
occurred, may suspend you from work pending any investigation(s) as the Company thinks fit. The Company shall
continue to pay you your fixed salary and benefits during that period.
16.4 You shall retire on the day on which you attain the Company's normal retirement age, currently 65.
16.5 Upon termination of your employment for whatever reason, you must immediately return to the Company any
Documents, credit cards, keys, computers, cars or any other item in your possession belonging to or relating to the
business of the Company and any other Group Company and/or your employment.
16.6 The Company shall not be obliged to provide you with work at any time after notice shall have been given by either
you or the Company and the Company may, in its discretion, take any one or more of the following steps in respect
of all or part of an unexpired period of notice:
(a) require you to comply with such conditions as it may specify in relation to attending at, or remaining
away from, the place of business of the Company, assign you to other duties or withdraw any powers
vested in you; and/or
(b) pay your fixed salary entitlement in lieu of all or part of the unexpired period of notice (subject to
deductions at source of income tax and applicable national insurance).
17 Data Protection
In order to keep and maintain accurate records relating to your employment, it will be necessary for the Company to
record, keep and process personal data (including sensitive personal data) relating to you. By signing this Contract,
you undertake and agree to the recording, processing, use, disclosure and transfer by the Company of personal data
relating to you. This does not affect your rights to request copies of the personal data of which you are the data
subject, information about how that data is processed and the parties to whom any of the information may be
disclosed under the Data Protection Act 1998. For the purposes of these acts, the Company has nominated the
Office Manager as its representatives.
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18 Alterations to the Terms and Conditions of your Employment
The Company reserves the right to amend or vary the terms and conditions of your employment. Written notice
will be given to you of any such changes. Acceptance of changes of terms and conditions so made will be assumed
unless you notify the Company in writing of your objection within one calendar month of notification of any
change.
20 Collective Agreements
There are no collective agreements affecting your terms and conditions of employment.
23 Security
You consent to the Company checking, recording and reviewing telephone calls, computer files, records and e-mails
and any other compliance, security or risk analysis checks the Company considers reasonably necessary.
24 Governing Law
This Contract shall be interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of England and shall be governed by
the jurisdiction of the English Courts.
25 Third Parties
Except as otherwise stated, nothing in this Contract of Employment or in this Contract confers any rights on any
person (other than the parties to this Contract) pursuant to the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
26 Personal Integrity
No member of the office is permitted to consume alcohol during office hours or at lunch time without the written
approval of a director. No director or senior architect shall likewise consume alcohol unless it is in the process of
entertainment or job generating. No director will consume alcohol if the client or job lead is not drinking. It is
permissible to consume alcohol at the company’s social event.
27 Company Bonus
The company will publish the financial figures of the company at the end of each financial year. This will indicate
the profitability of the business. 10% of the post tax profits will be split amongst the employees. The amount
payable to each will be a direct proportion of the released sum based on each employee’s individual points, which
will then be pro-rata against the collective points of the entire office. Points are calculated as being a multiplication
of each employee’s salary, expressed in thousands, multiplied with the length of their service expressed in months.
This Contract is executed as a deed by the parties hereto and is delivered on the date first above written.
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EXECUTED AS A DEED BY )
HDDA LTD )
Director
Director
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Appendix
Copyright and Inventions
1 In this Appendix "Intellectual Property" shall mean patents, trade marks and service marks, rights in inventions,
designs, rights, registered designs, trade names and copyrights (whether or not any of these is registered and
including applications for registration of any such thing) and all forms of protection of a similar nature which may
subsist anywhere in the world.
2 You acknowledge, having regard to the nature of the business of the Company and other Group Companies and the
nature of your expertise, that:
(a) the normal duties of your employment with the Company may include the making of inventions;
(b) inventions may reasonably be expected to result from the carrying out by you of such duties; and
(c) due to the nature of your duties and the particular responsibilities arising from the nature of your duties,
you have a special obligation to further the interests of the Company's undertaking.
3 You shall disclose to the Company any invention made or discovered or produced by you in the course of your
employment (whether or not during office hours or using office stationery and equipment) in connection with or in
any way affecting or relating to or capable of being used or adapted for use in the business of the Company or any
other Group Company.
4 You shall do all things and execute all documents that may be necessary to enable the Company or its nominee to
obtain the benefit of every invention made by you in the course of your duties and to secure patent or other
appropriate protection for it.
5 Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Appendix, you shall disclose to the Company full details
of any Intellectual Property or copyright work made or created by you during the continuance of your employment
(whether or not during office hours or using office stationery and equipment) and you hereby assign to the
Company, by way of assignment of future copyright or other Intellectual Property rights, all rights of copyright or
other Intellectual Property rights throughout the world in that copyright work or Intellectual Property.
6 You shall, before working, assigning or granting rights in relation to any invention or copyright work or other
Intellectual Property rights to which the Company is not entitled under this Contract and/or at law, allow the
Company or any Group Company nominated by it a reasonable opportunity to evaluate the same and you shall not
dispose of any rights to any third party unless you shall first have given written notice to the Company with full,
complete and bona fide details of the price and terms offered by the third party and offering the Company, or any
Group Company, an opportunity to purchase the rights concerned at the same price and on the same terms within 28
days of the date of the notice.
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