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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.
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.
"Create Your own Employee Handbook, published by Nolo, can help owners put their own handbooks together..." Washington Post
"Has all the information and advice you'll need to clearly communicate your firm's policies and procedures." Accounting Today
"This guide is intended for employers, business owners, managers, and HR professionals in companies of all sizes (except those in unionized workplaces or workplaces with federal, state, or local government employees). The book provides standard language that readers can use to create an employee handbook, plus examples and guidance on writing their own language. The guide presents current law and best practices in areas such as wages, time off, drugs and alcohol, trade secrets, personal blogs, and discrimination. The book contains worksheets throughout, plus margin space for writing notes. Appendix A offers a list of forms for creating a handbook, and Appendix B lists state departments of labor and agencies that enforce laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. A companion web site for the book contains forms and updated legal info; the publisher’s main web site provides an employment law center, articles, FAQs, and more forms. This eighth edition is updated to reflect current state and federal law related to areas such as social media, e-cigarettes, and photography at work.." Eithne O'Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView
Author's Comment: 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 11th edition also provides policy language and legal information on working from home, a vitally important topic in the age of Covid-19.