Avoid legal problems and run a productive workplace with an up-to-date employee handbook!
Anyone who hires and supervises employees needs clear policies when it comes to crucial issues like pay and overtime, medical leave, and social media. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook.
Find the latest information, practical suggestions, and best practices on:
wages, hours, and tip pools
remote work
at-will employment
discrimination and harassment
complaints and investigations
health and safety
alcohol and drugs, including medical/legal marijuana
workplace privacy, and
email and social media.
This new edition covers recent updates to state and federal laws, including laws regarding employees who are pregnant or breastfeeding, discrimination laws, electronic communications, and much more. With Downloadable forms: All policies and forms—along with modifications and alternative language you can tailor to your workplace—are available for download details inside.
Sachi Clements is a California-licensed attorney who writes for the Witkin Treatises on California law. Shepracticed employment law at a firm focused on representing small to mid-size companies, where she drafted employee handbooks, lead manager trainings on employment policies, and represented businesses in discrimination, sexual harassment, and wage and hour disputes. Sachi is also a former Nolo editor specializing in employment and workers’ compensation law. She has authored or coauthored several Nolo titles, including The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws. Sachi graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Table of Contents
What an Employee Handbook Can Do for Your Organization 1. Handbook Introduction 2. At-Will Protections 3. Hiring 4. New Employee Information 5. Employee Classifications 6. Hours 7. Pay Policies 8. Employee Benefits 9. Use of Company Property 10. Leave and Time Off 11. Performance 12. Workplace Behavior 13. Health and Safety 14. Employee Privacy 15. Computers, Email, and the Internet 16. Employee Records 17. Drugs and Alcohol 18. Trade Secrets and Conflicts of Interest 19. Discrimination and Harassment 20. Complaint Policies 21. Ending Employment Appendixes A. Creating Your Handbook B. Where to Go for Further Information Index
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If you’re tasked with creating or updating an employee handbook for your employer or your own business, Create Your Own Employee Handbook can help you get it done right—without having to hire an expensive lawyer to draft the document for you. This user-friendly guide will give you up-to-date legal information—including detailed charts on state laws—as well as practical suggestions and policy language. The 10th edition is completely updated to include federal and state law changes affecting employer policies, such as paid sick leave (including time off for reasons relating to the coronavirus); minimum wage laws (including rules for employees who receive cash tips); drug and alcohol testing (including medical and legal marijuana laws); discrimination; family and medical leave; and much more. The 10th edition also provides policy language and legal information on working from home, a vitally important topic in the age of Covid-19.
