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People Section 6 26 of the employment of such an employee, such as hours of work and holidays. It also needs to deal with how the seconder will be reimbursed, if at all, for the cost of the employee, covering not just salary but matters such as tax, National Insurance and pension payments. Both parties to the Secondment Agreement need to decide how disciplinary, insurance and health and safety issues will be dealt with. Where one collaborator is working in a field, with which it is not familiar, it may be that its staff will need some training from another participant. This may happen particularly where one participant has know-how but needs to give the other some instruction on how to use it. Key Employees It may be that some members of the research staff are identified as being key to the Project. This may, for instance, include the Principal Investigator. What happens if that member of staff leaves? If they were not key to the Project then it would be sufficient simply to include procedures for the recruitment of another equivalently qualified individual. The Research Contract might give the other collaborator(s) a veto over the appointment. Where the individual is key, though, it may be that the research could not proceed without them. The other collaborator(s) may want the option to terminate the Research Contract. Alternatively, it may be that there is an option to move the Research Contract to the organisation to which the key individual has moved. This can sometimes happen where a key researcher moves from one university to another and collaborators want the Research Project to move with him or her. With academic moves there is likely to be a reasonable period of notice of the move, but there should be an obligation on the relevant employer to notify the other collaborator(s) as soon as possible of the move. Similar principles may apply if a collaborator thinks that any of the research staff is unsuitable. You may want provisions to deal with a request for such member of staff to be removed and with the appointment of a suitable replacement.