How to deal with a secondment

Authors: Sarah McWhinney and Becky Jobling, Lewis Silkin LLP

Summary

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• Decide whether a secondment arrangement will benefit your organisation.
• Ensure that the selection process for choosing a secondee is fair and transparent.
• If you are the original employer, establish whether the terms of a reluctant secondee's contract require them to accept a secondment arrangement.
• Put the secondment agreement in writing.
• Ensure that the secondee's ongoing employment with the original employer is clear.
• Agree and set out terms and arrangements relating to pay, annual leave, sickness absence and family leave.
• If you are the host employer, ensure that the secondee's obligation to comply with your instructions and policies is clear.
• Decide how to deal with appraisals, discipline and grievances.
• Put in place measures to protect your intellectual property and confidential information.
• Provide for how the secondment arrangement will end.