You are bringing on a contractor.
Maybe it is a freelancer for a project, or a VA overseas to take work off your plate. Either way, a handshake and a few emails is how people get burned.
The two things that catch businesses out are who owns the work, and whether the person is really a contractor at all. Get both wrong and a cheap arrangement gets expensive fast.
A proper contractor agreement fixes ownership of the work, sets payment terms, and keeps the relationship on the right side of the sham contracting rules.
Start with the contractor agreement
The document for this
Contractor Agreement
$99, once$99 once. Covers IP, payment and GST, with an overseas variant for VAs.
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NDA / Confidentiality Agreement
$59If they will see confidential information, add a one-way confidentiality agreement.
Service Agreement
$59If you are the one delivering the service to a client, you want this instead.
If the person looks more like an employee than a contractor, the agreement's guidance flags it, so you use the right document before Fair Work does it for you.