http://career-advice.monster.com/job-search/getting-started/employment-contract-guide/article.aspx
A
promising company offers you an employment contract. If the numbers are
right, shouldn’t you just skim the legalese, sign and celebrate?
Not so fast -- you need to read the contract carefully, understand some employment law and have an attorney review the relevant documents. Here’s a start on what to look for as you launch the contract review process.
1. It’s the Job Security, Stupid
Protection
from involuntary termination is not automatic with employment
contracts. “You need to ask, ‘Am I getting any job security with this
agreement?’” says Joshua Zuckerberg, a partner
at Pryor Cashman LLP in New York City. How do you do that? First of
all, “determine whether you’re an at-will or fixed-term employee,” says
Truth Fisher, senior counsel at Gordon & Rees LLP in Miami.
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