Contractor Onboarding Pack

Contractor onboarding has a specific risk profile. You are bringing somebody into the business who will have access to your systems, your customers, and your IP, but who is not an employee and is not bound by employee duties. The pack addresses that gap.

What a proper contractor onboarding looks like

The pack provides: a consultancy agreement that establishes self-employed status; an NDA that survives termination; an IP assignment that captures all work created during the engagement; and an IR35 status assessment based on the contract and working arrangements.

Done at the start of the engagement, this is straightforward administration. Done after the contractor has left and taken something with them, it is litigation. The pack makes the start-of-engagement version cost-effective and the end-of-engagement version unnecessary.

Having all three documents prepared together ensures they are consistent with each other and that the contractual terms support the intended IR35 status of the engagement.

Example: a typical scope and fixed fee

For an engager onboarding a single contractor, the typical scope looks like this.

What's included

• A consultancy/freelancer agreement tailored to the engagement
• A mutual NDA
• An IR35 status assessment based on the contract and working arrangements
• One round of revisions to the consultancy agreement based on your feedback

What's outside this scope

• Ongoing IR35 monitoring
• Employment law advice if the engagement is found to be inside IR35
• Tax advice

Fixed fee: £395, no VAT.

How I will approach your matter

Once you have instructed me, I will tailor the consultancy agreement to the specific engagement, prepare a mutual NDA, and carry out an IR35 status assessment based on the contract and working arrangements. One round of revisions to the consultancy agreement is included.