Importance of an Employee Handbook
Jan 31, 2014
There are many reasons why a company should have an Employee Handbook. The obvious is communication between the Company, its employee’s and the expectations. Another reason is to protect your business. By not having an employee handbook, it may lead to some government agencies to dig more deeply into your business to determine compliance with wage and hour laws, postings, etc. which could end you up in court.
At Extra Help, Inc. we understand the importance of having an employee handbook. We also understand how timely and costly it can be to put an employee handbook together. This is why we have developed a service to help you with that. Extra Help, Inc. can work with you to customize your employee handbook from our legally reviewed policies to meet your specific needs.
Your employee handbook should be a tool to reflect your expectations and consequences for not meeting the guidelines you have set forth. Your handbook should be filled with policies and procedures that the company wants the employees to know. It is important that these policies and rules are communicated to every employee in the company. Again, expectations are the key.
It also will help you to enforce policies that have been broken by the employee. It sets the performance/counseling/discipline and will make it consistent for any employee thereafter.
Your handbook should define the relationship between you and the employee. However, an employee handbook is NOT to be used as a contract of employment.
Here are a few topics that you might want consider when making your employee handbook.
As any story starts, you will need an introduction of your company, history and company vision. Hours of operation. Some companies add pay, salary and bonus structure. Benefits, drug and alcohol policy. Harassment, attendance and discipline. These are just a few topics you may want to add. With the growing social media, I strongly suggest that you add an electronic communication, internet, and social media policy to your handbook. This policy should cover Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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