Employment Contract - At-Will - New Hampshire

AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT — NEW HAMPSHIRE

This Agreement is made on [__/__/____] between [EMPLOYER LEGAL NAME], at [ADDRESS] (Employer), and [EMPLOYEE NAME], at [ADDRESS] (Employee).

1. Position and start

Employee begins work on [__/__/____] as [JOB TITLE], reporting to [SUPERVISOR OR TITLE]. Primary work location: [ADDRESS / REMOTE ARRANGEMENT]. Expected schedule: [DAYS AND HOURS OR VARIABLE SCHEDULE]. Main duties: [BRIEF DESCRIPTION]. A job description is ☐ attached as [EXHIBIT] ☐ not attached. Employer may make lawful changes to duties or schedule with appropriate notice.

2. At-will term

The parties agree to no fixed employment term. Either party may end employment at any time, with or without cause or advance contract notice, subject to law. The parties do not intend a policy or performance review to set a fixed term. Any different employment term requires a later writing signed by both parties. This section does not waive a statutory right or authorize a prohibited discharge.

3. Pay and benefits

Employer will pay wages on the agreed cycle within RSA 275:43's deadlines. A pay cycle less frequent than biweekly requires the Labor Commissioner's permission and must be at least monthly. This signed Agreement gives Employee written notice at hiring of the rate, wage-determination method, and day and place of payment under Lab 803.03(a). Employer will give written notice before changes to pay arrangements or covered policies, provide the written or posted benefit-policy description, and keep the signed notifications required by Lab 803.03(b), (c), and (f)(6). Vacation, severance, personal-day, holiday, sick-pay, and employee-expense benefits that are a matter of practice or policy are wages when due under RSA 275:43(V).

A bonus or commission is ☐ not offered ☐ governed by the plan labeled [PLAN NAME AND DATE], attached. Employer will reimburse approved, documented business expenses under [ATTACHED POLICY NAME / WRITTEN TERMS]. Benefit eligibility follows governing plan documents and law. Only deductions permitted by RSA 275:48 and other controlling law may be made; this Agreement does not authorize a voluntary deduction. Employer will furnish a deduction statement for each pay period with deductions.

4. Confidential information and company property

Employee will use nonpublic information learned through work only for Employer's business while that information is lawfully confidential. This duty does not restrict wage discussion, activity protected by RSA 275-E:2, an agency report or charge, testimony, or another disclosure protected by law. Employee will return Employer property, credentials, and work records on request or separation, except records Employee may lawfully keep.

Federal trade-secret immunity notice: Under 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b), an individual is not criminally or civilly liable under federal or state trade-secret law for a trade-secret disclosure made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely to report or investigate a suspected violation of law; or made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding under seal. An individual suing an employer for retaliation for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the individual's attorney and use it in the proceeding if every document containing the secret is filed under seal and the individual makes no other disclosure except by court order.

This Agreement creates no post-employment noncompetition or nonsolicitation restriction, invention assignment, duty to defend, or indemnity. A noncompete required as a condition of employment for a new employee must be provided before acceptance of the offer under RSA 275:70. A noncompete with a low-wage employee as defined by RSA 275:70-a is void and unenforceable. No separate rider is incorporated unless identified in Section 6.

5. Separation and final pay

On discharge, Employer will pay wages in full within 72 hours. On resignation, Employer will pay wages by the next regular payday, except that if Employee gave at least one pay period's notice, earned wages are due within 72 hours. On layoff or suspension due to a labor dispute, earned wages are due by the next regular payday. These deadlines follow RSA 275:44. Employee's forwarding address for final documents is [ADDRESS / TO BE PROVIDED].

6. Agreement and signatures

Changes to this Agreement require a writing signed by both parties. An unenforceable term is ineffective to that extent; the other lawful terms remain. This Agreement and the identified attachments state the parties' employment terms, subject to nonwaivable law and governing benefit-plan documents.

Attachments incorporated at signing: ☐ Job description [DATE] ☐ Bonus or commission plan [DATE] ☐ Leave policy [DATE] ☐ Expense policy [DATE] ☐ Other reviewed rider [TITLE, DATE] ☐ None. Each signer receives a completed copy with the checked attachments. Employee's signature acknowledges receipt of this written wage notice; Employer will retain the signed copy.

Sources and References

• RSA 275:43, 275:44, 275:48, and 275:49.
• RSA 275:70 and 275:70-a.
• RSA 275-E:2.
• N.H. Admin. Rules Lab 803.03.
• 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b).