This article explains how to manage staff contracts in Arbor, including creating, editing, and reviewing contracts. It details the necessary permissions for contract management, how to view and download contract information, and the steps to add a new contract and salary details for staff members. It also provides guidance on uploading attachments and links to related actions like changing contracted hours or deleting contracts.
The contracts area in School > All staff > HR admin > Contracts gives a quick view of all the contracts on Arbor, including salaries. Creating, editing and reviewing contracts can be done from this section.
Permissions
You will need the Staff Profile: Setup: All Staff: Contract Management permission to edit contracts and salaries, and the Staff Profile: View: All Staff: Contract Details permission to see but not edit these. If you don't have permission, you'll need to ask your admin team to give you permission using these instructions.
The grid in Staff Contracts gives a quick view of the contracts on Arbor, the grid shows all basic information about each contract. The report can be downloaded by clicking on the Download button.
Clicking on a staff members name from the grid will take you to their Staff Profile which will display information about their contract, post and salary.
If a staff member has more than one contract, you can choose which to view using the drop-down.
Creating a staff contract
Click Create Staff Contract from the left-hand menu to load a blank contract form. Click the green button to create the contract.
Add the employment type, start date, job title and position.
Double-check you've set up the position with the right position category and census business role - you can see how to do this here.
From the staff profile
The Contracts page in the Staff Profile allows the school to view, edit and add staff contract details.
If a contract is already attached to the staff's profile the page will immediately display the contract details, post and salary.
If a staff member has more than one contract, you can choose which to view using the drop-down.
To add a contract to the staff's profile click the Add New Contract button, add the details for both contract and post details and save.
Double-check you've set up the position with the right position category and census business role - you can see how to do this here.
Add salary details
To add a salary to the position click +Add in the Salary section next to the position title. Here you can also add working hours, and the safeguarded sum period dates.
Can't see the salary section? See this article: The salary section is missing from the Contract on the staff profile
Weeks per year needs to be either a whole number or a decimal, so double-check you've not added in a ':'
In the FTE Salary section, you need to either:
- select a pay scale
- add a custom salary amount
- add a custom amount of 0 alongside an hourly rate
To add an attachment, such as a copy of the contract, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to upload the file.
What's next?
You can see how to change contracted hours here: Change a staff member's Contracted Hours
Or delete an incorrect contract, or end an existing one here: Delete or end a staff contract
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