Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A category of contract used in labor law to attribute right and responsibilities between parties to a bargain.
WordNet
n. contract between employer and employee [syn: employment agreement]
Wikipedia
An employment contract or contract of employment is a kind of contract used in labour law to attribute rights and responsibilities between parties to a bargain. The contract is between an "employee" and an "employer". It has arisen out of the old master-servant law, used before the 20th century. But generally, the contract of employment denotes a relationship of economic dependence and social subordination. In the words of the controversial labour lawyer Sir Otto Kahn-Freund,
"the relation between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power. In its inception it is an act of submission, in its operation it is a condition of subordination, however much the submission and the subordination may be concealed by the indispensable figment of the legal mind known as the 'contract of employment'. The main object of labour law has been, and... will always be a countervailing force to counteract the inequality of bargaining power which is inherent and must be inherent in the employment relationship."
Usage examples of "employment contract".
Spacenhance doesn't want the responsibility of moving it, and I've refused to allow a ferry crew, under provisions of my employment contract with Lady Cecelia and my rights as possible heir.
We promised him a standard employment contract minus the clause to ship the body home.
Both Samantha and Shannon have an employment contract with The Store, and they are legally bound by the strictures of that contract.
If given a free ride in the employment contract, it will expedite their transfer and make them available much earlier.
It was nothing more -- and nothing less -- than a five-year employment contract, a social contract, for her services as companion in the entourage of William, Prince, and Chairman of the Board of that very commercial planet Ceta which was the only habitable world circling the sun Tau Ceti.
Wojo demanded compensation for his tractor maintenance work out on the surface, over and above the hazardous duty pay called for in his employment contract.
My partner and I represent certain parties from whom you accepted an employment contract some time back.