UMBRELLA APPLICATION

Please complete this form in Black ink using block capitals CONTRACT INFORMATION Agency: Name of Consultant: Length of contract: Job Title:
1.4 1.3 You will devote the whole of your working time, attention and abilities to the duties required of you and will not at any time (including any period when you are not on assignment) without the prior written consent of the Company accept any work for or be directly or indirectly engaged in or concerned with any other business. Whilst employed by the Company you must comply with all the Company's rules, regulations and policies from time to time in force and any rules which the Companys clients/customers may require you to observe whilst working on their premises including any health and safety and drugs and alcohol policies. If you are aware of any reason relating to your health which may prevent you from carrying out any of the duties required of you by the Company you are obliged to inform the Company of this condition. COMMENCEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT Your continuous employment with the Company commenced on For the avoidance of doubt, no employment with a previous employer counts as part of your period of continuous employment with the Company.

PERSONAL DETAILS Title: Forename(s): Surname: Address : 2. Post Code: Date of Birth: NI Number: Email Address: Telephone Number: Nationality: 3.
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PAYMENT INFORMATION Account Holder's Name: Bank Sort Code: Account N : Bank Name / Branch: Building Society Reference Number:
In terms of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the "Act") this Agreement gives details of your terms and conditions of employment with the Company together with other workplace information, as at the date of this Agreement.
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JOB TITLE AND DUTIES You are employed with effect from to work on such projects and for such periods as we may from time to time require. For the avoidance of doubt, we reserve the right to require you to cease or not to commence working on a project if we are unable to agree terms of business with the client. The terms of this contract apply at all times (subject to termination in accordance with clause 7) whether you are currently engaged on a project or between assignments. You will perform all duties required of you by the Company at any location where we may require you to work from time to time. Where applicable, you are required to inform us as soon as it becomes apparent to you that you have worked or are likely to work at a particular location in excess of 24 months and, in any event, you must inform us when you have been working at a particular location for 20 months or more.

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REMUNERATION The Company undertakes at all times during your employment (and subject to the terms of this Agreement) to use reasonable endeavours to allocate to you suitable work and as a minimum guarantees that you will be offered and remunerated for at least 336 hours of work over the course of any full 12 month period (commencing on the start date of your continuous employment) paid at a rate at least equivalent to the then current National Minimum Wage (your "Basic Salary"), subject to the deduction of tax and national insurance. For part-time employees the guarantee shall be pro-rated based upon full-time work of 35 hours per week. For the avoidance of doubt there is no entitlement to any particular number of hours of work in any particular period shorter than 12 months. The provisions of the Apportionment Act 1870 shall not apply to this Agreement. Save as provided for herein the Company does not guarantee that there will always be suitable work to which you can be allocated. You acknowledge that there may be periods when no work is available for you. In such circumstances subject to Clause 3.1 the Company has no obligation to pay you when you are not carrying out work. You are obliged to work when required by the Company. If you do not work when required to do so, the Company is entitled to terminate your employment in accordance with Clause 7.3. Your rates of pay will at all times be no less than the National Minimum Wage currently in force in the UK per hour worked. Enhanced rates may be applicable depending on the work you are required to perform. Where enhanced rates or overtime rates are applicable you will be notified of this prior to the commencement of the work. Payment will be made weekly in arrears directly into your nominated bank account on Friday of each week in respect of the hours worked during the preceding week, subject to deduction of tax and national insurance, appropriate deductions for holiday pay as set out at Clause 9.5. In addition you may be entitled to additional profit related pay in relation to work undertaken on each assignment. If this is applicable, you will be notified of this prior to the commencement of the work. The total gross pay (less any allowable expenses) is subject to PAYE and National Insurance Contributions.

The Court, The Street, Charmouth, Bridport, DT6 6PE Tel: 01297 561 409 Fax: 01297 560415 Email: [email protected] Web: www.clippercontracting.co.uk Registered Office: The Court, The Street, Charmouth, Bridport, DT6 6PE. Clipper Contracting Ltd, Company Reg: 6631 601 Vat no: 935 0046 47

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You agree that the Company may deduct from your remuneration any sums due from you to the Company including, without limitation, any overpayments, loans or advances made to you by the Company. If the final payment is insufficient to allow for the whole amount of any deduction, you will be required to repay any outstanding amount due to the Company within one month of the termination of your employment. EXPENSES You will be able to claim for allowable travel and related expenses on the basis set out in the Companys expenses policy. You must submit an expenses claim form and any supporting evidence as required by the Company to the Company (the form will be provided to you) HOURS OF WORK You do not have normal hours of work. Your assigned hours of work will vary according to the requirements of the Companys clients. It is a condition of your employment that you work flexibly in accordance with the requirements of the Company's clients. The Company will give you as much advance notice is as is reasonably practicable of the hours you will be required to work. In particular, you agree to work hours which exceed the maximum average weekly working time limit of 48 hours imposed by the Working Time Regulations 1998. You may withdraw your agreement on giving to the Company three months' prior written notice. For the avoidance of doubt, you will be employed by the Company during any period when you are not on assignment. Accordingly, you agree that in accordance with clause 3.3, you will make yourself available to work for the company during periods when there is no assignment work available to you. During such periods, you will be required to seek new assignments or undertake work as directed by the Company for a minimum of one hour each day, Monday to Friday (inclusive). PLACE OF WORK You do not have a normal place of work. You will be required to work at any of the Companys premises or at the premises of its customers, clients, suppliers or associates, including worldwide, as the Company may determine from time to time. You will not be required to work overseas for periods exceeding one month. TERMINATION The length of prior written notice that you must give the Company in order to terminate your employment is one week. The length of prior written notice that the Company must give you in order to terminate your employment is: (a) one week's notice if you have been continuously employed for more than one month; and then (b) one week's notice for each year of continuous employment with the Company up to a maximum of 12 weeks' notice. The Company is entitled to dismiss you without notice in the event of serious misconduct and/or serious negligence. For the avoidance of doubt, acts or behaviour which constitute serious misconduct shall be taken to include (but not restricted to) the following: (a) Theft or attempted theft from the Company, its clients or their employees. For the avoidance of doubt this shall include, without limitation, falsifying timesheets or otherwise claiming that you worked on assignment during hours in which you did not in fact work; (b) Fraud; (c) Rude, offensive and threatening behaviour to the Company, its clients or their employees; (d) Malicious damage to property, including the introduction of viruses and other damage to computer systems; (e) Breaches of the Company or client internet use policy, including downloading pornographic or other prohibited or illegal material; (f) Breach of confidentiality; (g) Negligence resulting in serious loss, damage or injury to the Company, its clients or their employees; (h) Serious breaches of Health and Safety regulations; (i) Attempting to perform any duties while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs; (j) Failure to notify us promptly of any period in which you anticipate not being on assignment; (k) Conviction for any serious criminal offence; and

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In addition, the Company will be entitled to terminate your employment without notice in the event that you do not work (without good cause, which will be determined at the discretion of the Company) when the Company requires you to do so. The Company reserves the right at any time in its absolute discretion to make a payment of Basic Salary in lieu of all or any part of your entitlement to notice, less such deductions for tax and national insurance. NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE The Company's normal retirement age, when your employment will automatically terminate, is 65 for both men and women. HOLIDAY AND HOLIDAY PAY The maximum entitlement to annual leave is 28 days (including bank holidays) in a full working year (232 working days). If you work less than 232 days in a full working year your entitlement to annual leave will be pro-rated accordingly. The Company's holiday year runs between 1st April and 31st March. If your employment begins or ends part way through the holiday year your holiday entitlement for that year will be assessed on a pro rata basis. Holidays must be taken at times agreed by the Company or the Company's client where appropriate and sufficient notice of request to take holiday must be given to the Company or client. All holidays must be taken in the holiday year in which they accrue and cannot be carried over to the next holiday year without prior consent of the Company. 12.07 % of your Basic Salary and any enhanced rates, overtime or profit-related pay represents holiday pay. As a result, 12.07 % of your pay will be retained by the Company in a holiday fund. You will be paid for each day of holiday authorised by the Company and the Client at an hourly rate calculated on the basis of your average income over the 12 working weeks preceding the holiday. If on the termination of your employment, you have taken holidays in excess of the statutory holiday entitlement which has accrued to you at that time you will be required to repay to the Company holiday in respect of these holidays. The Company reserves the right to require you to take any unused holiday during your notice period, or during periods when the Company is unable to provide you with an assignment. SICKNESS OR OTHER ABSENCE If you are absent from work for any reason and your absence has not previously been authorised by the Company you must inform the Company and client you are working for (before you are due to start work) on your first day of absence. In respect of absence due to sickness, injury or accident that continues for more than seven consecutive days (including weekends) you must provide the Company with a medical certificate stating the reason for the absence. Thereafter medical certificates must be provided to the Company to cover the remainder of the period of continuing absence. Failure to follow these requirements may result in disciplinary action and loss of Statutory Sick Pay. If you are absent from work due to sickness, injury or accident and comply with the requirements in this Clause you will be paid Statutory Sick Pay in accordance with the provisions of the applicable legislation. For the purposes of Statutory Sick Pay, the "qualifying days" are Monday to Friday inclusive. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION For the purposes of this Clause, "Confidential Information" means all information which is identified or treated by the Company or any of the Company's clients or customers as confidential or which by reason of its character or the circumstances or manner of its disclosure is evidently confidential including (without prejudice to the foregoing generality) any information about business plans, proposals relating to the acquisition or disposal of a company or business or proposed expansion or contraction of activities, maturing new business opportunities, research and development projects, designs, secret processes, trade secrets, product or services development and formulae, know-how, inventions, sales statistics and forecasts, marketing strategies and plans, costs, profit and loss and other financial information (save to the extent published in audited accounts), prices and discount structures and the names, addresses and contact and other details of: (a) employees and their

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terms of employment; (b) customers and potential customers, their requirements and their terms of business with the Company; and (c) suppliers and potential suppliers and their terms of business (all whether or not recorded in writing or in electronic or other format). During your employment by the Company, you may learn trade secrets or Confidential Information which relates to the Company and its clients. Unless you are required to do so in the proper performance of your duties, you must not: (a) divulge or communicate to any person; (b) use for your own purposes or for any purposes other than those of the Company or, as appropriate, any of its clients; or (c) cause any unauthorised disclosure, through any failure to exercise due care and attention, of; any trade secrets or Confidential Information relating to the Company or any of its clients. You must at all times use your best endeavours to prevent publication or disclosure of any trade secrets or Confidential Information. These restrictions apply both while you are employed by the Company, and after your employment with the Company terminates. The restrictions will cease to apply to any information which becomes generally available to the public, otherwise than through a failure by you to observe these restrictions. PENSION The Company operates a stakeholder pension scheme which you may be entitled to join. The Company will not make any contributions to the pension plan on your behalf. A contracting-out certificate under the Pension Schemes Act 1993 is not in force in respect of your employment. REGULATORY ISSUES From time to time, the Companys Clients may fall within the definition of an Employment Agency or Employment Business as defined in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (the Regulations). These Regulations contain a provision for you to opt-out. The Company will endeavour to provide you with an opt-out form in advance of you commencing work on an assignment. If you choose to opt-out, you have the right to opt-in at the start of a new assignment. DATA PROTECTION By signing this Agreement, you acknowledge and agree that the Company is permitted to hold personal information about you as part of its personnel and other business records and may use such information in the course of the Company's business. You agree that the Company may disclose such information to third parties in the event that such disclosure is in the Company's view required for the proper conduct of the Company's business or that of any associated company. This Clause applies to information held, used or disclosed in any medium. COMPANY AND CLIENT PROPERTY All equipment (including computer equipment), notes, memoranda, records, lists of customers, suppliers and employees, correspondence, computer and other discs or tapes, data listings, codes, keys and passwords, designs, drawings and other documents or material whatsoever (whether made or created by you or otherwise and in whatever medium or format) relating to the business of the Company or any of its clients (and any copies of the same) shall: (a) be and remain the property of the Company or the relevant client; and (b) be handed over by you to the Company on demand and in any event on the termination of your employment. GRIEVANCE, DISCIPLINARY AND DISMISSAL MATTERS The disciplinary and dismissal procedure which applies to you are set out in the Companys Disciplinary and Grievance (D&G) procedure, details of which are available on request. The D&G procedure is not contractual and the Company may change the terms at any time at its absolute discretion.

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The Company reserves the right to discipline the employee in relation to any client complaint regardless of whether the assignment to which the complaint relates is continuing at the date of such complaint or disciplinary action. If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary or dismissal decision taken in relation to you, you should refer to the disciplinary and dismissal procedure. If you have a grievance about your employment, you are entitled to raise a complaint in terms of the Company's grievance policy. The grievance policy is available upon request. COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS There are no collective agreements applicable to you or which affect your terms of employment. PREVIOUS CONTRACTS The contractual terms in this Agreement shall be in substitution for all or any existing contracts of employment entered into between you and the Company which cease to have effect on the date upon which you commence work under this Agreement. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Each party hereby submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts as regards any claim, dispute or matter arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and its implementation and effect.

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I acknowledge that I have received a duplicate copy of this Agreement, I have read and understood the same and I agree to be bound by all the terms contained in it.

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Print Name: Date:

THE EMPLOYEE

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FOR AND ON BEHALF OF CLIPPER CONTRACTING LTD

The Court, The Street, Charmouth, Bridport, DT6 6PE Tel: 01297 561 409 Fax: 01297 560415 Email: [email protected] Web: www.clippercontracting.co.uk Registered Office: The Court, The Street, Charmouth, Bridport, DT6 6PE. Clipper Contracting Ltd, Company Reg: 6631 601 Vat no: 935 0046 47