Employment contracts

Name: Employment contracts
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Detects individual employment contracts, contracts of employment and letters of offer for a named or numbered employee, with commencement, remuneration or classification terms.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the primary phrases also appear in policies, guidance, blank forms and news, so enforce tiers require a populated person field and 85 adds a record-specific populated detail plus independent corroboration. Person values are customer-defined (employee IDs, position numbers), so the field regexes use labelled loose values with a placeholder guard. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Topic false positive
Jurisdictions: global
Regulations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth), Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), NDB Scheme (Cth), GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:employment\s+(?:contract|agreement)|contract\s+of\s+employment|terms\s+of\s+employment|letter\s+of\s+offer|offer\s+(?:of\s+employment|letter)|individual\s+flexibility\s+arrangement)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

probation, superannuation, ordinary hours, confidentiality, non-compete, acceptance, notice period, award, signed

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Letter of offer - contract of employment Employee name: Avery Teston Position title: Senior Project Officer Commencement date: 06/10/2026 Base salary: $98,450 per annum plus superannuation Probation: 6 months. Please sign and return the acceptance by 30/09/2026. — 85: Letter of offer with employee, commencement date and salary
Employment contract Employee: Jordan Staffson Start date: 2026-11-02 Annual salary: USD 112,000 At-will employment; confidentiality and non-compete obligations apply. — 85: Contract with employee, start date and salary
Employment agreement variation Employee ID: 4471820 The parties agree that clause 7 is varied to 30 ordinary hours per week. — 75: Contract variation naming an employee ID, no populated term

Should not match

An employment contract sets out the terms of employment, such as salary, hours and probation. This fact sheet explains what employers must include. — Guidance / fact sheet - must stay below 75
Contract of employment Employee name: __________ Position title: __________ Commencement date: ___/___/____ Base salary: $__________ — Blank contract template - must stay below 75
Training module 3: negotiating an employment agreement. Participants review a letter of offer and discuss salary expectations. — Training material - must stay below 75
unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
employee interview — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match

Known false positives

Policies, directives, fact sheets, guidance and training material that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated person field; guidance text has labels without values and guidance/training/media-release framing is excluded.
Blank forms, templates and HR system configuration. Mitigation: Blank lines, square- and angle-bracket placeholders, XXX and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the placeholder guard; template/fixture words are excluded.
Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person field, so these stay at 65 discovery.
Records that identify the person only in free text (no field label) fall to 65. Mitigation: Accepted precision trade-off; extend the person-field regex with the customer employee-id format to recover recall.