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

Make - or update - your employee handbook today! Clear employee policies help you run a productive workplace and avoid legal problems. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything managers or HR professionals need to create a reader-friendly guide, or update an existing handbook--all in plain English. Find up-to-date legal information, practical suggestions and best practices on: wages and hours at-will employment time off discrimination and harassment complaints and investigations health and safety drugs and alcohol workplace privacy email, personal blogs and Internet use You'll get the lowdown on the legal and practical considerations that apply to each topic in your state, plus sample policies that you can use as-is or tailor to meet your needs. You can even cut and paste the language you need to complete your own handbook instantly. The 7th edition covers recent updates to the law, including social media use, health care reform, rules for tipped employees and much more!

About the Author :
Lisa Guerin, an editor and author specializing in employment law, is author or co-author of several Nolo books, including The Manager's Legal Handbook, and The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws. 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 University of California at Berkeley. Guerin's blog on lessons learned by employers and HR professionals on everything from hiring and firing to performance and discipline can be found at Nolo's Employment Law Blog. 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. She has written numerous employment law titles, including The Performance Appraisal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, and Create Your Own Employee Handbook. DelPo currently divides her time between writing on legal issues and chasing after her busy children. DelPo received her law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Review :
"Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides all the information and policies managers, HR professionals and business owners need to create their own reader-friendly guide. HR Magazine "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 "Guerin and DelPo present students, academics, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a comprehensive reference to the creation and effective use of an employee manual. The authors have organized the main body of their text in twenty-one chapters devoted to the handbook introduction, at-will protections, hiring, new employee information, employee classifications, hours, pay policies, employee benefits, use of company property, leave and time off, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Lisa Guerin and Amy DelPo are practicing attorneys and the authors of several books on employment law and management." Eithne O'Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView