Employer Terms of Business

These terms are between BECKRON PARTNERS LTD, company number 17385385, registered in England and Wales with registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom ("Beckron", "we", "us"), and the organisation accepting them ("Client").

Beckron operates as an employment agency for the purposes of permanent recruitment. We introduce candidates for direct engagement by the Client. We do not supply temporary agency workers, employ candidates, operate payroll or become a party to any employment or engagement contract.

• Candidate means a person about whom Beckron provides identifying information or whom Beckron otherwise introduces to the Client.
• Introduction occurs when Beckron provides a CV or other information identifying a Candidate, arranges an interview or meeting, or otherwise first causes the Client to become aware of that Candidate for recruitment purposes.
• Engagement means the Candidate's employment or other direct or indirect engagement by the Client or an Associated Person, whether for the original vacancy or another role and whether as an employee, worker, officer, partner, consultant, contractor or through a personal service company.
• Associated Person means a person or organisation controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Client, or a third party to whom the Client provides Candidate information.
• Remuneration means the gross basic salary payable during the first 12 months of an Engagement, excluding discretionary bonus, commission, pension contributions and non-cash benefits.

These terms and any written fee schedule or assignment-specific variation form the entire agreement for Beckron's services. A variation applies only if confirmed in writing by an authorised Beckron representative. The Client's purchase terms do not apply unless Beckron expressly agrees in writing.

The Client accepts the identified version of these terms by signing or electronically accepting them, confirming acceptance by email, or instructing Beckron to begin a search after receiving them. A person accepting or instructing Beckron warrants that they have authority to bind the Client. Beckron will not make an Introduction until the applicable terms and fee have been agreed.

Later website updates do not retrospectively change an accepted version. Changes apply to new instructions only when notified and accepted in the same manner.

Beckron may take a vacancy brief, search and assess potential Candidates, obtain Candidate authority for a named-employer disclosure, submit authorised profiles, coordinate interviews and communicate feedback and offers. Unless agreed otherwise, the service is non-exclusive and contingent: a fee arises only from an Engagement following an Introduction.

Beckron does not guarantee that a search will produce a Candidate, that a Candidate will accept or start, or that an Engagement will succeed. The Client remains solely responsible for its recruitment decision, offer, employment contract, onboarding, supervision and compliance as an employer.

Before an Introduction, the Client must provide accurate and complete information reasonably required for the vacancy, including:

• the Client's identity and the nature of its business;
• the position, duties, location, days and hours, proposed start date and expected duration;
• known health and safety risks and the steps taken to prevent or control them;
• required experience, training, qualifications, professional registrations and legal authorisations;
• expenses payable by or to the Candidate;
• minimum basic remuneration, other benefits and pay intervals; and
• the notice the successful Candidate would be entitled to receive and required to give.

The Client must promptly correct changes or inaccuracies and must not ask Beckron to advertise, select or act on information or criteria that are unlawful or misleading.

Beckron will take the steps applicable to its role as a permanent employment agency and will communicate information it is required to provide. Unless a different scope is expressly agreed in writing, the Client is responsible for verifying identity, right to work, references, employment history, qualifications, professional status and any other pre-employment requirement before Engagement.

The Client must satisfy itself that the Candidate is suitable and that engaging them complies with immigration, employment, safeguarding, regulatory and professional requirements. Beckron will not knowingly withhold a material suitability concern it is legally required to communicate.

Each Introduction is confidential and made solely for the Client's recruitment purposes. If the Client believes it already had active, documented recruitment contact with the Candidate during the six months before the Introduction, it must give Beckron written evidence within five business days. The parties will then determine fairly whether Beckron's Introduction was causative of the Engagement.

If the Client Engages a Candidate within 12 months after Beckron's Introduction, the fee in section 8 is payable. The same applies where the Client provides Candidate information to an Associated Person and that person Engages the Candidate within that period.

Unless a different fee is agreed in writing before the relevant Introduction, the placement fee is 15% of the Candidate's first-year gross basic salary, subject to a minimum fee of £2,500. VAT is added where applicable. Discretionary bonus, commission, pension contributions and non-cash benefits are excluded from the standard calculation.

A founding-client rate of 12.5% applies to that Client's first successful placement only where Beckron expressly confirms the offer in writing before Introduction. The £2,500 minimum and all other terms remain applicable. No discount is implied by discussion, prior dealing or publication of an offer.

If a Candidate is Engaged other than as a salaried employee, the fee is calculated on the guaranteed or reasonably projected gross remuneration for the first 12 months, subject to the minimum fee. Any genuinely uncertain calculation will be agreed in writing before Engagement.

The Client must tell Beckron promptly about an offer, its financial terms, acceptance, proposed start date and any later Engagement. Beckron may invoice when the Engagement begins. The Client must pay the invoice in cleared funds within 14 calendar days, without set-off, counterclaim or unauthorised deduction.

Pre-approved external expenses are invoiced separately. Overdue business-to-business amounts may carry statutory interest, fixed compensation and reasonable recovery costs under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998. Late payment also removes eligibility for the replacement guarantee in section 10.

If the original Candidate's Engagement ends during their first eight weeks, Beckron will conduct one replacement search for the same or substantially similar role without an additional placement fee, provided that:

• the original invoice was paid in full within the 14-day payment period;
• the Client notifies Beckron in writing within seven calendar days after the Engagement ends, explains the reason and supplies information reasonably requested;
• the Client has complied with these terms and gives Beckron a reasonable exclusive opportunity of six weeks from notification to conduct the replacement search;
• the Engagement did not end because of redundancy, restructuring, role withdrawal, a material change to duties, location, hours, remuneration or working conditions, unlawful discrimination, or the Client's breach of contract or law; and
• the replacement role and employment terms are substantially the same as those originally described.

The guarantee is a replacement search only: it does not create a cash refund or credit. It applies once to the original placement and does not restart for a replacement Candidate. If the replacement's basic salary is higher, the Client pays the difference between the original fee and the fee calculated on the higher salary; no refund arises if it is lower.

Candidate information is confidential, may be used only to assess the Candidate for the disclosed vacancy and may be shared internally only with people who need it for that purpose. The Client must not contact a current employer or referee, disclose the information to another organisation, consider the Candidate for a materially different role, or make a further onward introduction without first informing Beckron so that appropriate Candidate authority and information can be addressed.

Beckron and the Client normally act as independent controllers of the personal information each processes. Each must comply with applicable data-protection law, provide required transparency, use a valid lawful basis, keep information secure, respond to individual rights and delete or retain information according to its own lawful retention requirements. The Client must notify Beckron promptly of a personal-data breach materially affecting Candidate information received from Beckron.

Beckron's processing is described in its Privacy Notice.

The Client must comply with equality and employment law and must not instruct Beckron to discriminate unlawfully. Beckron may reject, pause or end an instruction that it reasonably believes is unlawful, misleading, unsafe or inconsistent with professional recruitment obligations.

Each party must keep the other's non-public commercial and operational information confidential and use it only for the recruitment relationship. This does not apply to information lawfully in the public domain, already known without restriction, independently developed, received lawfully from another source, or disclosed as required by law or a regulator.

Beckron will provide its services with reasonable care and skill, but the Client makes the final recruitment and employment decisions. To the extent permitted by law, Beckron is not liable for a Candidate's acts, omissions, statements, performance or decision not to start or remain, or for loss arising from information that the Client, Candidate or another third party supplied inaccurately or incompletely.

Neither party is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, anticipated savings or goodwill. Beckron's total aggregate liability arising from a particular Introduction or Engagement will not exceed the fee paid or payable for that Introduction or Engagement. For any other claim, Beckron's aggregate liability will not exceed the fees paid or payable by the Client during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of data-protection obligations to the extent it cannot lawfully be limited, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Either party may end an uncompleted search by written notice. Ending a search does not affect accrued rights, confidentiality, data-protection duties, payment obligations or a fee arising from an Engagement within the 12-month period following an Introduction already made.

Neither party may assign this agreement without the other's written consent, except that the Client may not use an assignment or Associated Person to avoid a placement fee. If a provision is unlawful or unenforceable, it will be adjusted or removed only to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions continue. Delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver.

Neither party is responsible for delay caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, but payment obligations already due are unaffected. A person who is not a party has no right to enforce these terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

Contract notices must be in writing and sent to the business email address used for the instruction, with a copy to info@beckronpartners.com for notices to Beckron. Email is treated as received on the next business day unless a delivery failure is received. Routine recruitment communications may use the parties' usual agreed channels.

These terms and any non-contractual dispute arising from them are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.