Consulting/contractor agreement templates for Global HRIS customers
Last updated September 7, 2023
Intro
As part of our Global HRIS offering, Rippling is providing consulting/contractor agreement templates.
Each template has been researched and reviewed to comply with any country-specific compliance and requirements. These templates are designed to save you time and effort: Simply download the country's template, and customize to fit your company's policies and needs.
In the templates, you'll find commentary and considerations, allowing you to make decisions with Rippling's expert guidance.
Consulting agreement templates
Below, you'll find two sets of available consulting agreement templates:
- One set of templates based on contractor payment type.
- One set containing templates for each of the countries supported.
Pair a role-based template with a country template to build a custom agreement for your contractor.
Click to download the templates to your computer and make any changes.
When ready, add the agreement into Rippling so you can use it in the hiring flow.
Note: Rippling has provided these as templates so that you can adjust these to your company's preference; Rippling will not be making adjustments to these templates on a one-off basis.
FAQ: Our legal team/advisor says that the consulting agreement in Rippling doesn't follow their guidance. Can you change something for us?
The beauty of these templates is that they are just that: templates! They afford you the flexibility to customize them as much or as little as you want or need to. And ultimately, they are meant to serve as an optional resource—so if you have a different version of a consulting agreement that works for your company, there's no need to use the Rippling templates.
The Legal Stuff and Disclaimer:
Rippling designed our contractor agreements by working both with top Silicon Valley law firms and local counsel to ensure that our customers are receiving templates that have both robust IP protection and misclassification protection. Each of our contractor templates has been reviewed by both US and local counsel.
That said, these are templates and our customers are welcome to adjust them to meet their risk tolerance levels. For example, in many countries, it is not enforceable to assign certain IP rights (such as moral rights, which is something that investors and M&A counsel will want to see), but so long as leaving those provisions does not render the entire agreement unenforceable, we have left those provisions in as a best practice for deterrence purposes and because they may be enforceable if considered under US law. As another example, we allow but do not recommend that customers pay contractors on a monthly basis and offer equity, but these can be considered misclassification factors in certain jurisdictions.