Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
An Employee Handbook is an effective tool to communicate and orient employees to your company’s beliefs and performance expectations. It is an excellent way to describe your mission statement, code of ethics, policy on discrimination, sexual harassment, and other important policies affecting the employment relationship.
The handbook should cover everything an employee needs to know to ensure a successful career at your company. In addition to the above, it shold also include a description of work hours, overtime pay, vacation policy, holidays, dress code, employee hygiene, employee benefits, a glossary of terminology important to your business, and an organization chart.
By providing an employee handbook you do not want to give the impression that you are guaranteeing lifetime employement. The handbook should cover all legal notification requirements to prevent lawsuits, but don’t try to spell out what an employee should do in every situation.
We’ll have an article coming out soon describing in more detail what an employee handbook should contain.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Do your employees know where they stand regarding vacation policy, dress code, code of conduct, sexual harassment and other human resource issues? If not, maybe it’s time to put those policies in writing by developing an employee handbook.
A good employee handbook will contain the following information:
1. A disclaimer specifying that employment with your firm does not guarantee lifetime employment.
2. Your employment policies regarding work hours, pay, vacation, holidays, performance evaluations, tuition reimbursement, health and other insurances, retirement programs, employee discipline, termination, training, dress code, personal hygiene, body art (tattoos), ethics and other items that affect employment.
3. You should also include a company organization chart .
The employee handbook is a useful tool to explain your company’s policies and help orient employees to company beliefs and how they are expected to perform. The handbook also provides you with a measure of legal protection should an employee sue you for wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, or any other reason.
The employee handbook doesn’t have to spell out specifics on what the employee should do in every situation, but it should contain enough information to let the employee know what your value system is as an employer relative to your employees and conducting business in general
It won’t necessarily prevent you from being sued, but it will strengthen your position in court if your policies are in writing.
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