Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal and Practical Guide (Create Your Own Employee Handbook)

Whether your business has a few employees or several thousand, providing them with a handbook that spells out your company's benefits, policies and procedures makes great sense, practically and legally. 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. 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 Each chapter first explains the legal and practical considerations that apply to its topic, then supplies sample policies that readers can use as-is or tailor to meet their needs. A CD-ROM lets readers cut-and-paste the policies to create their own handbook instantly. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 9 Introduction......Page 17 How to Use This Book......Page 23 1 Handbook Introduction......Page 31 2 At-Will Protections......Page 41 3 Hiring......Page 49 4 New Employee Information......Page 61 5 Employee Classifications......Page 71 6 Hours......Page 77 7 Pay Policies......Page 97 8 Employee Benefits......Page 121 9 Use of Company Property......Page 133 10 Leave and Time Off......Page 139 11 Performance......Page 189 12 Workplace Behavior......Page 193 13 Health and Safety......Page 215 14 Employee Privacy......Page 241 15 Computers, Email and the Internet......Page 247 16 Employee Records......Page 265 17 Drugs and Alcohol......Page 277 18 Trade Secrets and Conflicts of Interest......Page 297 19 Discrimination and Harassment......Page 305 20 Complaint Policies......Page 317 21 Ending Employment......Page 323 A How to Use the CD-ROM......Page 351 B Model Handbook......Page 359 C Where to Go for Further Information......Page 411 Index......Page 421 Provides human resource professionals and business owners guidance in creating an employee handbook, covering such topics as hiring, payroll, benefits, performance evaluations, and privacy in the workplace. Your handbook's introductory statements will be the first policies your employees read, so they will set the tone for everything else to come.