Arbeitsvertrag-Generator

Anyone drafting an employment contract - as an employer, a freelancer making a first hire or a small company - quickly faces the question: what actually has to go in, what is optional, and which clause applies to which contract type? The Employment Contract Generator answers that in a structured way instead of leaving you in front of a blank Word template.

It starts with choosing the contract type, because everything else depends on it. Options include full-time, part-time, fixed-term, permanent, minijob, apprenticeship and internship, among others. Depending on the type, the generator shows the fitting fields and clauses - a fixed term needs an end date and a valid reason, a minijob a different pay logic, an apprenticeship its own rules. You only deal with what really matters for your case.

Then you enter the core data: employer and employee, position, place of work, start, pay, working hours, holiday, probation and notice period. The generator is more than a snippet collector: it orients itself on the details the German Verification Act (Nachweisgesetz, NachwG) prescribes for the essential contract terms, so you do not accidentally skip the points that should be recorded in writing.

The centrepiece is the clause library. Each contract type comes with a selection of clauses - from the indispensable mandatory clauses to optional rules like confidentiality, secondary employment, non-compete, forfeiture periods or a severability clause. You toggle them on and off individually and see live how many clauses are active for your chosen type. For special cases you can additionally add your own clauses as free text.

Across the three views form, clauses and preview you keep the overview: you fill in the data, refine the clause selection and see the finished contract in the preview as it will look. Once everything fits, you print it or save it as a PDF via the print dialog, ready to sign. A draft is cached locally so your work is not lost if you do something else in between.

An honest word: the Employment Contract Generator is a tool for drafting a contract, not legal advice. It helps you create a structured, complete contract and not forget the usual points. For tricky constellations - an unusual non-compete, a complex fixed term, collective-agreement specifics - a lawyer or employment-law specialist remains the right next step.

Because the clause library is curated expertise, it is provided server-side and loaded on opening; the contract data you enter remains the basis for generation. That way you get up-to-date building blocks without having to maintain a clause collection yourself.