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A Legal & Practical Guide

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Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide

Pub. Date: May 2009
Edition: 4th
Pages: 432 pp
ISBN: 9781413310290
Forms: 5 forms
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Summary

Provide your employees with a handbook that spells out your company's benefits, policies and procedures with this practical legal guide.

Every company, no matter how big or small, needs to provide workers with an employee handbook. Create Your Own Employee Handbook gives you all the information and policies managers, HR professionals and business owners need to create their own reader-friendly guide, no matter what state you live in. Each chapter covers a different topic, including:

  • at-will employment
  • hiring
  • pay and payroll
  • workdays and hours
  • performance evaluations
  • benefits
  • discrimination and harassment
  • complaints and investigations
  • leave
  • health and safety
  • substance abuse
  • privacy in the workplace
  • discipline

You'll get the lowdown on the legal and practical considerations that apply to each topic in your state, plus sample policies that you can use as-is, or tailor to meet your needs. The CD-ROM lets you cut-and-paste the language you need to complete your own handbook instantly.

The 4th edition is completely updated to include the latest developments in federal and state law, and covers emerging workplace issues such as lactation breaks, instant messaging, and new regulations for dealing with victims of domestic violence.

Press Reviews

"Create Your own Employee Handbook, published by Nolo, can help owners put their own handbooks together..."
Washington Post
"Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides all the information and policies managers, HR professionals and business owners need to create their own reader-friendly guide."
HR Magazine
"Lets you cut and paste standard policies into your own employee handbook, modifying them as needed."
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"You don't have shell out big bucks to a professional handbook developer. Instead, turn to the pages of Create Your Own Employee Handbook."
EntrepreneurialConnection.com
"Has all the information and advice you'll need to clearly communicate your firm's policies and procedures."
Accounting Today

Customer Reviews

A must-have for any employer.

B.N.,
Lexington, MO

I am very impressed.... even more information than I had hoped to find to assist me in writing an employee handbook.

C.B.,
Morehead City, NC

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