Design Your Own Effective Employee Handbook

This title contains a book and CD-ROM. If you have employees, you need employment policies in writing distributed to every employee. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that businesses can protect themselves against damages and liability against employee lawsuits by providing clear, written policies covering the rights and responsibilities of their employees. Our Employee Handbook Template is the ideal solution to produce your own handbook in less than an hour. The companion CD-ROM in MS Word contains the template, which you can easily edit for our own purposes; just fill in the blank. The book discusses various options you may have in developing the policies. Our employee handbook has been edited and approved by lawyers specialising in employment law. Developing your own handbook now couldn't be easier or less expensive!

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. You’ll learn all the top tips and practical suggestions for creating a polished and thorough employee handbook that addresses your company’s policies 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 will address how to draft an employee handbook in an environment where employees might be permanently remote or working a hybrid remote schedule. 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.

"This guide is for business owners, managers, and HR professionals who need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook. It provides legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on wages, hours, and tip pools; at-will employment; time off; discrimination and harassment; complaints and investigations; health and safety; drugs and alcohol; workplace privacy; and email and social media"--

In this new book, you will learn how to get and manage credit, make and stick to a budget, save for college, determine your needs versus your wants, pay for a car, finance college, manage risk, open a bank account, write a check, balance a checkbook, avoid the pressures of consumerism, and how to avoid financial mistakes. You will also learn about investment options, taxes, checks, debit cards, credit cards, and basic budget tips. This book is filled with suggestions from financial and family counselors, and you will discover creative ways to get a jumpstart on your financial future and use money responsibly. Even if you have had a few missteps along the way, you will be able to learn from your mistakes and get on the path to financial well-being.

Sponsored by The Management Center At last, busy nonprofits can produce their own employee handbooks without the usual worries or frustrations. And employees can finally look to a single source for all the policies and procedures that bear on their day-to-day work. This unique book-and-disk set has everything you need to craft an employee handbook that is tailored to your organization's mission, culture, and goals. It is The Management Center's most comprehensive human resources toolkit for nonprofits across the country--filled with sample policies and examples of how to adapt each policy to your specific objectives. Flexible and user-friendly, Creating Your Employee Handbook offers a unique three-level approach, capturing the complexity and diversity of your nonprofit. Many of the sample policies appear in versions that correspond to large, medium-sized, or small nonprofits. Sample policies also reflect different organizational cultures. For each policy,you can choose--mixing or matching as needed--the language, form, and style that best reflect your purpose and work culture. Topics include: employment and employee development, benefits, workplace healthy and safety, standards of conduct, work hours and pay, and much more. You can create a new employee handbook from start to finish, update existing policies, or identify new ones. This hands-on manual can also help you gain insight into why certain policies are legally necessary. Such important policies are tagged throughout the handbook and there is even a state-by-state listing of specific statutes and mandates to help broaden your knowledge of employment law. Above all, Creating Your Employee Handbook shows how to make your handbook an effective employee communications tool. Use the Disk for Easy Customization and Implementation The do-it-yourself kit includes a computer disk complete with all of the sample policies in PC format. The policies are organized into folders that correspond to the size of your nonprofit. You can select or combine the policies according to your specific requirements. Also included are sample forms that can be copied or saved for future use. The guide and disk make the normally daunting task of creating an employee handbook that simple!

No matter the number of employees working at your business, employment policies should be distributed in writing to every employee. An employee handbook is the most important communication tool between you and your employees. A well-written handbook sets forth a company’s expectations for its employees and describes what they can expect while working for the business. An employee handbook should describe the employer’s legal obligations and the employees’ rights. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that businesses can protect themselves against damages from employee lawsuits by providing clear, written policies covering the rights and responsibilities of their employees. Even if you have only one employee, a written handbook could keep you out of court. Written policies provide the principles and a basis for how businesses can manage their employees. The employee handbook can help prevent misunderstanding by listing the company’s policies so employees and managers know what is expected of them. A handbook will also assist with employment law compliance. A written employee handbook gives everyone — including management — the same set of rules to follow. How to Write Your Own Effective Employee Handbook In One Hour Or Less is the ideal solution for producing your own handbook quickly and efficiently. The companion CD-ROM contains an employee handbook template in Microsoft Word™ format, which you can easily edit for your own purposes. Essentially, you just need to fill in the blanks. The book discusses various options you might have in developing the policies. Our employee handbook has been edited and approved by attorneys specializing in employment law. Developing your own handbook now could not be easier or less expensive. The companion CD-ROM containing the template is available in both English and Spanish on a single disc. The following topics are covered in the new 2011 edition of the book: at will employment, equal opportunity employment, sexual harassment, immigration law, criminal convictions, probationary periods, personnel files, orientation, exempt and non-exempt employment classifications, pay periods, breaks, time keeping, overtime, performance reviews, expense reimbursement, attendance, meetings, telecommuting, holidays, vacations, drugs and alcohol, workplace violence and weapons, smoking, food and beverage areas, attire, telephone use, use of company property, safety and security, confidential information, conflicts of interest, employment of relatives, sick leave, disability leave, medical leave, leave of absence, jury duty, military duty, benefits eligibility, medical insurance, retirement plans, employee discounts, workers’ compensation, COBRA, termination, and termination process. With this new book, there is finally a cost-effective solution for developing your own employee handbook for the small- to medium-sized business owner. Simply review the more than 100 polices already written for you and insert your own information when prompted. The template comes complete with a table of contents, introduction, and a form for each employee to sign acknowledging receipt of the manual.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

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