# Hire an employee

Prepare the offer and invention-assignment documents, then check the governing state law before signature.

Canonical page: <https://openagreements.org/toolkits/hire-an-employee>

This toolkit links existing OpenAgreements resources and does not restate their legal content. Each linked resource states its own scope, sources and review date.

## Resources

- [Employment Templates](https://openagreements.org/templates#group-employment) — Template. Browse the offer-letter and employee-agreement starting forms.
- [Employment Offer Letter](https://openagreements.org/templates/openagreements-employment-offer-letter) — Template. A starting form for the principal terms of employment.
- [Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement](https://openagreements.org/templates/openagreements-confidentiality-invention-assignment-agreement) — Template. A starting form for confidentiality, invention ownership, and related obligations.
- [Invention Assignment Law](https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/invention-assignment) — Practice guide. The legal framework and jurisdiction-specific practice guides.
- [U.S. Invention Assignment Survey](https://openagreements.org/surveys/invention-assignment/us) — Law survey. Compare state restrictions, carve-outs, notices, and holdover limits.
- [Invention Assignment Reviewer Checklist](https://openagreements.org/checklists/invention-assignment) — Reviewer checklist. Review a draft agreement clause by clause.

## Jurisdiction-specific workflows

Each workflow below applies only to the jurisdiction named in its heading. The toolkit page shows it only after that jurisdiction is selected; it is not a general step.

### New York: Hire a New York employee

Applies only to New York. Page view: <https://openagreements.org/toolkits/hire-an-employee?jurisdiction=iso3166-2%3AUS-NY>

Settle the invention-assignment boundary and the New York wage gates before the offer issues, then prepare the offer letter and the employee IP agreement from one set of facts.

1. [Employee Invention Assignment in New York](https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/invention-assignment/us/new-york) — Fix the boundary between the employee’s own inventions and the company’s before the IP agreement is drafted.
2. [Wage and Hour Law in New York](https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/wage-and-hour/us/new-york) — Confirm the classification, notice, pay-frequency and deduction rules the hire has to satisfy from day one.
3. [Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement Reviewer Checklist](https://openagreements.org/checklists/invention-assignment/us) — Review the assignment clause against the carve-outs and notices the jurisdiction requires.
4. [Employment Offer Letter (New York)](https://openagreements.org/templates/openagreements-employment-offer-letter-new-york) — State the role, compensation and any equity as a proposal, on the New York form.
5. [Confidentiality & Invention Assignment Agreement (CIIAA)](https://openagreements.org/templates/openagreements-confidentiality-invention-assignment-agreement) — Assign inventions and protect confidential information, with the post-employment restraint clauses gated off where the engagement prohibits them.