For years, employee handbooks were treated as routine onboarding documents, i.e., something handed out on a new hire’s first day and rarely ...

A comprehensive employee handbook is a necessity in today's business community. Handbooks exist so employers can effectively manage their workplace. Distribution of the handbook ensures that employees ...

Starting a business can be a daunting experience, but a strong team of employees can be one of the greatest assets to your company. Your own leadership will play the primary role in determining the ...

You put a lot of time and energy into your employee manual. It communicates vital company information and helps you keep your assets covered. But wouldn’t it be nice if your employees actually read it ...

Joycelyn Stevenson, office managing shareholder at Litter, shares the top five handbook questions she receives from clients ...

The employee manual or handbook can be a valuable tool for any business. Ideally, it should provide detailed guidelines for the employment relationship and document company policies and procedures for ...

Large companies aren't the only businesses that need an employee handbook. Even before you hire your first employee, you should establish your company's policies and procedures in writing to help ...

An entertaining employee manual. It sounds like an oxymoron, but Zingerman’s has made communicating corporate policy and rules fun. But, it wasn’t always this way. “For a long time, we had a staff ...

Despite a disclaimer, the Alabama Supreme Court held the City of Montevallo’s Employee Handbook created a contract with employees that placed additional obligations on the City before it could ...

The purpose of the Employee Policies Manual is to provide employees with a resource of information about policies and procedures related to the University’s workplace. It was prepared to help you ...

An employee operations manual is especially handy when training new employees, reviewing processes for improvement, revising job descriptions or replacing employees due to illness or turnover. For ...

I recently read our company’s employee manual -- and I was surprised at how good it is. Our manual is different than most in that it sprang up from within the company, rather than being handed down ...