Employment Contract Amendment

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT ================================ Amendment Number: _______________________________ Amendment Date: [DATE] Effective Date: [DATE] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BETWEEN: THE EMPLOYER: [EMPLOYER NAME] [EMPLOYER ADDRESS] AND: THE EMPLOYEE: [EMPLOYEE NAME] ID Number: [ID NUMBER] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PREAMBLE -------- WHEREAS: A. The Employer and the Employee entered into an employment contract dated [ORIGINAL DATE] ("the Original Contract"). B. The parties wish to amend certain terms and conditions of the Original Contract as set out in this Amendment. C. This Amendment is entered into by mutual agreement between the parties. NOW THEREFORE the parties agree as follows: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. NATURE OF AMENDMENT ---------------------- 1.1 This Amendment relates to: [TYPE OF AMENDMENT] 1.2 Reason for Amendment: As mutually agreed between the parties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. ORIGINAL TERMS ----------------- The following terms were contained in the Original Contract: 2.1 Position: _______________________________ 2.2 Department: _______________________________ 2.3 Remuneration: _______________________________ 2.4 Working Hours: _______________________________ 2.5 Work Location: _______________________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. AMENDED TERMS ---------------- With effect from [EFFECTIVE DATE], the following terms of the Original Contract are hereby amended: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. PROBATION PERIOD ------------------- 4.1 No additional probation period applies to this Amendment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. NOTICE PERIOD ---------------- 5.1 The notice period required for termination of employment is: As per the Original Contract ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. CONDITIONS ------------- 6.1 This Amendment is unconditional. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7. UNCHANGED TERMS ------------------ 7.1 All other terms and conditions of the Original Contract remain in full force and effect and continue to apply to the employment relationship, unless expressly modified by this Amendment. 7.2 In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Amendment and the Original Contract, the terms of this Amendment shall prevail. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8. GENERAL PROVISIONS --------------------- 8.1 This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa, including but not limited to: - The Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 - The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 - The Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 8.2 This Amendment constitutes the entire agreement between the parties regarding the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior negotiations, representations, and agreements relating thereto. 8.3 No variation of this Amendment shall be binding unless agreed in writing and signed by both parties. 8.4 Should any provision of this Amendment be found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9. ACKNOWLEDGMENT ----------------- The Employee acknowledges that: 9.1 He/she has read and understood the terms of this Amendment. 9.2 He/she has had the opportunity to seek independent advice before signing. 9.3 He/she enters into this Amendment voluntarily and without duress. 9.4 He/she accepts the amended terms and conditions of employment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SIGNATURES ---------- The parties have signed this Amendment on the dates indicated below. FOR THE EMPLOYER: Signed: _______________________________ Name: _______________________________ Position: _______________________________ Date: _______________________________ THE EMPLOYEE: Signed: _______________________________ Name: _______________________________ ID Number: _______________________________ Date: _______________________________ WITNESS: Signed: _______________________________ Name: _______________________________ ID Number: _______________________________ Date: _______________________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DOCUMENT CHECKLIST ------------------ ☐ Copy provided to Employee ☐ Copy retained in Employee's personnel file ☐ Payroll notified of changes (if applicable) ☐ Benefits administrator notified (if applicable) ☐ IT/Access systems updated (if applicable) ☐ Original Contract attached for reference