Preparation of Employment Manuals

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The primary purpose of an employment job manual is to outline the employer’s policies in dealing with its employees. As an employer, a properly prepared employee manual is one of your best defenses against employee claims of improper treatment in that strongly worded employment policies act as evidence that an employer has procedures in place to prevent employment issues and has acted properly in dealing with them.

Typically, an employment manual will list the employers policies on issues such as:

• Employee benefits and employee benefit procedures
• Policies as to hours worked by each employee including overtime procedures
• Company policy as to rest breaks and lunch breaks
• Company policies against sexual harassment and racial harassment and discrimination
• Polices as to Employee advancement
• Company policy as to employee’s rights and use of vacation days and sick leave
• Leaves of Absence, including policies for disability and maternity leaves
• Company dress code
• Company grievance procedure
• Company disciplinary procedures including termination procedures
• Rules of Conduct

The preparation of an employment manual is not something that an employer can take lightly or do quickly. Given the possible exposure to the company for violations of state and federal jobs employment and labor laws pertaining to any of the above issues, knowledge of existing employment and labor laws is absolutely necessary in the drafting and preparation of employment job manual or handbook.

This is why you need to have an experienced employment attorney like Employment Attorney Services on your side. Our employment attorneys can help you craft an employee handbook that protects your interests, which contains the employment policies you to have in place to prevent employee claims from occurring and aid you in shaping employment practices which make it easier for your company to deal with employment issues as they come up.

 

 

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