Letters confirming acceptance

Your Ref: KH 305/9 25 Westbound Road

Borehamwood

Herts

WD6 IDX

27 July 200-

Mrs J. Hastings

Personnel Officer

International Computing Service PLC

City Road

London EC3 4HJ

Dear Mrs Hastings,

Please thank Mrs Levin for her letter of 25 July in which she offered me the post of PA to Frances Newman, your Sales Director.

Please inform her that I am very pleased to have been offered the position, and confirm that I will begin at 08.30 on Monday 10 October 200-.

I accept all the terms in Mrs Levin's letter and conditions in the employees' handbook, ICS 661, and I am enclosing a signed copy of my Contract of Employment.

I look forward to starting on the above-mentioned date.

Yours sincerely,

Carol Brice

Carol Brice

Enc. Contract of Employment

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