{ "name": "TermsBird Employment Contract Terms", "title": "Employment Contract Terms", "url": "https://termsbird.com/datasets/employment-contract-terms/", "csv": "https://termsbird.com/datasets/employment-contract-terms.csv", "markdown": "https://termsbird.com/datasets/employment-contract-terms/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-18", "license": "https://termsbird.com/terms", "headline": "The Employment Contract Terms carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 2 to 28 day, read 17 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Employment Contract Terms carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 2 to 28 day, read 17 October 2026.", "3 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 17 October 2026.", "Employment Contract Terms, jurisdiction Great Britain: median 5.60 week across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "Employment Contract Terms, jurisdiction Great Britain: median 28 day across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.", "Employment Contract Terms, jurisdiction Australia: median 12 month across 2 sources, read 17 October 2026.", "Employment Contract Terms, jurisdiction Australia: median 2 day across 1 source, read 17 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"TermsBird Employment Contract Terms\", updated 2026-10-18, https://termsbird.com/datasets/employment-contract-terms/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "day", "n": 2, "median": 15, "min": 2, "max": 28, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 15, "units": { "day": 2, "month": 2, "week": 1 }, "published_sources": 3, "named_sources": 12, "read_sources": 11, "not_published": 8, "published_share": 0.273 }, "by_axis": { "jurisdiction": { "Great Britain": { "week": { "n": 1, "median": 5.6, "min": 5.6, "max": 5.6, "p25": 5.6, "p75": 5.6, "mean": 5.6 }, "day": { "n": 1, "median": 28, "min": 28, "max": 28, "p25": 28, "p75": 28, "mean": 28 } }, "Australia": { "month": { "n": 2, "median": 12, "min": 12, "max": 12, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 12 }, "day": { 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"text_sha256": "7a6d6d2959e4abcdc4f428f6d53bff5946154d9caf367a398a62ec4992be2964" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, National Employment Standards", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/national-employment-standards", "figure": "12 months", "value": 12, "unit": "month", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "Australia" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-16", "quote": "Casual employees can request flexible working arrangements and take unpaid parental leave if: they have been employed by their employer as a casual employee on a regular and systematic basis over at least 12 months, and", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "33c44fccd9ae95bea05a13d6b505e8b9751695d965bb91a8d2f42af89c67310e" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, casual employees", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-employees/casual-employees", "figure": "2 days", "value": 2, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "Australia" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "2 days unpaid carer's leave per occasion", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "69a5a7b5b1756e20ac0623f9a7014e5c12ea1579ecff513fdbc324304887c109" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, casual employees", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-employees/casual-employees", "figure": "2 days", "value": 2, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "Australia" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "2 days unpaid compassionate leave per occasion", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "69a5a7b5b1756e20ac0623f9a7014e5c12ea1579ecff513fdbc324304887c109" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, casual employees", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-employees/casual-employees", "figure": "10 days", "value": 10, "unit": "day", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "Australia" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per year", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "69a5a7b5b1756e20ac0623f9a7014e5c12ea1579ecff513fdbc324304887c109" }, { "source": "Fair Work Ombudsman, casual employees", "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-employees/casual-employees", "figure": "12 months", "value": 12, "unit": "month", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "Australia" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "quote": "Casual employees can request flexible working arrangements and take unpaid parental leave if they: have been employed by their employer as a casual employee on a regular and systematic basis over at least 12 months", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "69a5a7b5b1756e20ac0623f9a7014e5c12ea1579ecff513fdbc324304887c109" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "GOV.UK, employment contracts and conditions", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK, contract types and employer responsibilities", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contract-types-and-employer-responsibilities", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Government of Canada, federal labour standards", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/workplace/federal-labour-standards.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "US Department of Labor, FLSA misclassification", "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-17", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK, fixed term employment contracts", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.1, written statement of particulars", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/1", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK, calculate holiday entitlement", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86, minimum notice", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/86", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-17", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-contracts-and-conditions", "label": "GOV.UK, employment contracts and conditions", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee", "label": "IRS, independent contractor or employee", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/contract-types-and-employer-responsibilities", "label": "GOV.UK, contract types and employer responsibilities", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/services/jobs/workplace/federal-labour-standards.html", "label": "Government of Canada, federal labour standards", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/national-employment-standards", "label": "Fair Work Ombudsman, National Employment Standards", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights", "label": "GOV.UK, holiday entitlement", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-employees/casual-employees", "label": "Fair Work Ombudsman, casual employees", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification", "label": "US Department of Labor, FLSA misclassification", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts", "label": "GOV.UK, fixed term employment contracts", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/1", "label": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.1, written statement of particulars", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement", "label": "GOV.UK, calculate holiday entitlement", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/86", "label": "Employment Rights Act 1996 s.86, minimum notice", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 11 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 8 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per contract type (permanent, fixed term, casual or zero hours, agency) carrying what the written statement must contain, when it is due, the statutory floor the contract cannot undercut (5.6 weeks' holiday and the 12.07% accrual in GB, the eleven National Employment Standards and the 38-hour week in AU, the Canada Labour Code Part III standards, the FLSA in the US) and the notice table; the figure is the comparison - which of the four jurisdictions requires a written contract at all on day one, and what each one gives a zero-hours or casual worker that the contract cannot take away", "embed": "

2 to 28 day

2 published figures, Employment Contract Terms, across 3 sources, read 17 October 2026

Source: TermsBird Employment Contract Terms
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