What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on HRS-08 Employment Agreement Content?

Employment agreement template with the clause requiring compliance with security and information governance policy; Sample of signed agreements containing that clause; Reference in the agreement to the ISMS or security policy set and where staff can find it; Legal or HR review record of the template.

What is the most common gap auditors find on HRS-08?

Older agreements still in force without the security clause

CSA CCM v4.1 · HRS - Human Resources

`HRS-08` Employment Agreement Content

Employment agreements carry terms that bind the employee to comply with the organisation's adopted rules on security and on information governance.

Source: CSA CCM v4.1, HRS-08. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.

Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Vendor register / contract repository

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Sample of signed agreements containing that clause · Vendor register / contract repository
Legal or HR review record of the template · HR system / LMS

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Employment agreement template with the clause requiring compliance with security and information governance policy · Vendor register / contract repository
Reference in the agreement to the ISMS or security policy set and where staff can find it · Vendor register / contract repository

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Older agreements still in force without the security clause
Clause refers to a policy name that no longer exists
Contractor and temporary staff agreements missing the clause

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

Build my evidence sheet

HRS-07 Employment Agreement Process · HRS-09 Personnel Roles and Responsibilities