A good contract between employer and employee, however, doesn’t just organize the working relationship while it’s working well – it also applies in case of conflicts. Contracts aren’t just concluded for the good times, after all, but for bad ones too. Especially for employment contracts, it’s important to ensure that wording is precise and legally sound, down to the last detail.
Watch out for traps!
When you’re creating the document, however, there seem to be countless traps lying in wait to disrupt the process. For instance, employees in the HR department might call up and adapt Word templates from the intranet, the hard drive, or their local PC. This is certain to cause errors, whether because they’re using outdated templates, or because they remove or add individual data points or paragraphs. Different contract templates might even contain the same paragraphs, but use different formulations.
A better idea: Automated employment contract creation
SAP-integrated solutions for digital contract creation, on the other hand, allow you to fill in a future employee’s personal data and “activate” or “deactivate” individual passages. With easy, the multi-stage process that launches the creation or adaptation of employment contracts is fully automatic. An HR employee can start the process directly from the normal SAP environment. The responsible employees can simply insert data on the applicant that’s already available in SAP HCM into the document. The employment contract will be created automatically, with the right layout and the right footer. Pre-defined, legally reviewed text building blocks ensure the contracts are legally valid.
Reminder function and time savings included
easy uses a reminder function to keep employees from the HR department informed about important upcoming deadlines. HR professionals can also automatically launch the process to extend an employment agreement with easy.
easy can also be of service when employees need to change an employment contract – for instance, to convert it from a full-time to a short-time position. If an employee wants to apply to work part-time, he will click the appropriate button in the company portal, starting the process through an ESS scenario. The HR department and manager review the employment contract and add to or adjust it as needed. The software then automatically logs information such as changes in salary or changed weekly working hours in SAP. This saves time – for employees, for managers, and above all for the HR department.
You can find more information here: Personnel Management with SAP