Developing Your Employee Handbook HR211
Not currently offered
This program currently has no scheduled dates. Find out more about how this program can be offered in-house at your organization.
This workshop will provide you with an understanding of:
- Legal implications of an organization's written policies and procedures
- Costs and benefits of placing informal practices in an employee handbook
- Alternative formats for writing, disseminating, and updating the handbook
- Why every organization should have an up-to-date handbook
- Plans for developing and updating your organization's handbook
- Communicating your organization's values and goals
Key Topics
- Key language required to limit corporate liability
- Developing the structure of the handbook
- How to draft key policies and procedures
- How to format individual policies
- The legal and pragmatic implications of critical policies
- Key legal and pragmatic distinctions between an employee handbook and a policy manual
- Legal requirements and practical reasons for committing certain topics in writing
- Techniques to ensure that the organization's current policies and practices are addressed in the development/ revision of the handbook
- Employment-at-will concerns and limiting employer liability
- Disclaimer language and its strategic placement throughout the handbook
Special Features
You will receive a copy of the Guide to Employee Handbooks by Robert J. Nobile.
Who Will Benefit
HR managers with responsibility for developing or updating a policy manual or employee handbook; individuals with responsibility for policy and procedure development and implementation
Instructors
Robert J. Nobile, William P. Perkins
Your workshop will be led by one of these instructors.