Recruitment Agency Terms and Conditions - Protect your fees with strong Ts and Cs


For an agency, a fee dispute can often be prevented by strong terms and conditions, as can misunderstandings with hirers, agency workers and contractors.

Our contract templates have been drafted from scratch for professional recruiters, rather than adapted from generic commercial templates out of a book. Our terms and conditions are unique, drawing on direct experience of working with those operating in recruitment and hundreds of agencies, and then developed over many years. We believe that they cover off just about every problem a recruitment agency might come across and to our knowledge have never been successfully challenged. This is not surprising given our expertise and the fact that we’ve been working with hundreds of recruiters since 1997.

Let us make your disputes a thing of the past with a really strong package of recruitment agency terms and conditions.

The contracts package that is right for you

Whatever recruitment model your agency is operating, our robust template terms and conditions will cement your fees (including temp-to-perm fees), whilst offering liability protection and defending your business interests with ingenious devices, leaving you to concentrate on what you do best.

Contact us now on 01273 236 236 to discuss the following:

Search & Selection Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for a recruitment agency providing search and selection services
IR35 friendly contracts

Terms and conditions for the supply of contractors seeking to operate outside of IR35.
Employment Business Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for use with agency workers and clients, where the recruitment agency supplies the agency worker to its clients, paying the worker directly
Sole Agency Agreement

Contracts that ensure that yours is the only recruitment agency that a particular client will use.
Employment Contract

A contract of employment, specially drafted for a recruiter’s own employees. This contract includes robust non-solicitation clauses, confidentiality clauses, and restrictions on competitive activities. These are specially designed for a recruiter’s internal employees.
Employment Agency Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for use with candidates and clients, where the recruitment agency introduces candidates to clients for permanent or direct hire by the client.
Contractor or Umbrella Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for use where the recruitment agency supplies limited company
Employee Handbook

An internal staff policy handbook with all HR policies a modern recruiter would need

Master Vendor & Neutral Vendor Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions for either side of the ‘master vendor’ or ‘neutral vendor’ relationship.

Why invest in Lawspeed contracts?

  • Developed since 1993
  • Drafted to allow maximum opportunity to charge and recover fees
  • Never been successfully challenged in the courts
  • Drafted by industry expert specialists
  • Drafted to cover all normal recruitment scenarios, including fees and candidate issues
  • Minimise the potential for dispute as they are drafted on a ‘prevention is better than cure’ ethos
  • Set up to work with most recruitment software
  • Supported throughout their lifetime by ‘Contract Maintenance’*
  • Formatted for a professional look
  • Compliant with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, where appropriate, including transfer fee provisions.
  • All of the above issues are particularly important in a time of recession.

  • *Subject to terms
Contact us now on 01273 236 236 to talk to a recruitment lawyer about any of the above or our other legal services.

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