Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers

Avoid legal problems and run a productive workplace with an up-to-date employee handbook!

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.

You’ll learn all the top tips and practical suggestions for creating a polished and thorough employee handbook that addresses your company’s policies 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.

This new edition will address how to draft an employee handbook in an environment where employees might be permanently remote or working a hybrid remote schedule.

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.

ISBN-13: 9781413330755

Media Type: Paperback(Eleventh Edition)

Publisher: NOLO

Publication Date: 12-26-2023

Pages: 464

Product Dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.25(d)

Lisa Guerin is the author or co-author of several Nolo books, including The Manager's Legal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws, The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, and Create Your Own Employee Handbook. Guerin has practiced employment law in government, public interest, and private practice where she represented clients at all levels of state and federal courts and in agency proceedings. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the Universityof California at Berkeley. Amy DelPo is an author and consulting editor who specializes in employment and family law issues. She brings years of criminal and civil law experience to her work at Nolo, having litigated cases in all levels of state and federal courts, including the California Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Since leaving the active practice of law, she has earned a master’s degree in library and information science, specializing in legal research and law librarianship. She has written numerous employment law titles, including The Performance Appraisal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, and Create Your Own Employee Handbook. Ms. DelPo received her law degree with honors from the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Table of Contents

What an Employee Handbook Can Do for Your Organization 1. Handbook Introduction 2. At-Will Protections 3. Hiring 4. New Employee Information 5. Employee Classifications 6. Hours 7. Pay Policies 8. Employee Benefits 9. Use of Company Property 10. Leave and Time Off 11. Performance 12. Workplace Behavior 13. Health and Safety 14. Employee Privacy 15. Computers, Email, and the Internet 16. Employee Records 17. Drugs and Alcohol 18. Trade Secrets and Conflicts of Interest 19. Discrimination and Harassment 20. Complaint Policies 21. Ending Employment Appendixes A. Creating Your Handbook B. Where to Go for Further Information Index