Employment Contract Tool

Build your own employment contract, for an employee under Australia's Fair Work System, that is tailored to your business needs.

We're updating the employment contract tool between 8.00pm and 11.59pm (AEST).

During this time, you may experience interruptions when using the tool and may lose the information you have entered. If that happens, you will need to start again. If you are redirected to an error page, select 'continue' to keep working on your contract.

For the best experience, we recommend that you use the tool at a later time.

Who can use this tool

This tool helps small business employers to make a basic employment contract that complies with workplace laws. Use it to create a contract for an employee under the national industrial relations system. You can use it for full-time, part-time and casual employees to whom a modern award applies.

In the tool you'll find:

• conditions that you must provide to your employee
• optional clauses to help set expectations and protect your business.

To use this tool, you'll need to pay your employee an hourly or weekly wage. We don't provide for salaries in the tool due to their complex requirements.

If you have previously completed the tool and downloaded your employment contract, refer to our Steps to make an offer of employment for what you need to do next.

This tool isn't suitable for some types of workers

Find information on contracts for:

• apprentices and trainees
• piece workers
• seasonal workers
• employees under the WA IR system
• independent contractors
• employees under enterprise agreements.