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.

🛠️ 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 🔻

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

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

Updated on: 23/04/2026