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# How to create a contract 📝 ​💼​

Contracts in haddock HR are not the same as employment contracts.

⛓️‍💥 **They are a set of work rules or policies that affect one or N employees. **⛓️‍💥 Something absolutely essential to get the most out of haddock HR, your key tool and solution for people management and shift creation.

✅ 📝 Learn more [HERE about what contracts are in haddock HR](https://help.plain.ninja/es/articles/11184130-que-es-un-contrato).

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#### 🛠️ How do you create contracts in haddock HR?

***From Rules – Contracts – purple + button in the top right.***

📋 Once you have a contract created, you can clone it from the three dots on the right and work from that cloned base. It increases speed and ease.

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

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![](https://storage.googleapis.com/helpdesk-haddock-images/haddock-hr/contracts-accounts-rules-and-transactions/how-to-create-a-contract/images/02-how-do-you-create-contracts-in-haddock-hr.png)

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🔹** In absences** you can define what kind of leave or absence types the employees assigned to the contract will be able to request:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/helpdesk-haddock-images/haddock-hr/contracts-accounts-rules-and-transactions/how-to-create-a-contract/images/04-how-do-you-create-contracts-in-haddock-hr.png)

To learn how to assign an existing contract to a specific employee... go HERE and we'll explain it in detail.