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# 👷‍♂️ 📝 How do I assign a contract to an employee

A contract in haddock HR is one of the most useful applications for quickly spreading your employees' work rules without wasting a minute.

### 🔗🔎 Discover [HERE what a contract is](https://help.plain.ninja/es/articles/11184130-que-es-un-contrato) in haddock HR and [HERE how to create a contract](https://help.plain.ninja/es/articles/11184035-como-crear-un-contrato) in just a few clicks 🔗🔎

#### 📋 👷‍♂️ How to assign a contract to an employee

🔹 You need to go to the employee record and, in the horizontal options bar, click on Contracts.

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🔺**Important:** here you'll see all the contracts assigned to that employee in the work history.

**🔺 An employee can only have one active contract at a time 🔻**

💫 *And that's it, it's that simple. You can create and change each employee's contract (work rules) with just a single click. *