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We are currently revising our employee handbook and are trying to find publications/templates ect.. to help, any suggestions?
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Employee Handbook Suggestions
posted at 4/25/2009 8:25 AM EDT
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First: 6/30/2004 Last: 11/22/2010 |
I agree with HR Cheryl.
As a newbie to HR responsibilites a few years ago, one of my first initiatives (after doing a personnel file audit), was to update our aged manual. What a fantastic learning experience. Templates are all well and good, but for me, the exercise of researching and creating policies was tremendously rewarding and really helped to imbed the knowledge and theory into my little bitty brain. I went to lots of HR sites, including SHRM, which I joined for awhile, and went to lots of public sites. Universities, School Districts, County Governements, Governement Agencies and Government Contractors all had free sites. Google will get you to hundreds of these and you can do your searching topic by topic. Most of those big entities had detail way beyond my needs, but it was fairly easy to pull the substance out and leave the overly bureaucratic procedures. My small company did not need all of the "rigamorole" that most of those big entities utilized. It took me several months to get it written and reviewed by stakeholders, but it started out as a good product and did not need all that much editing. Just my opinion and an approach that worked for me. |
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Employee Handbook Suggestions
posted at 5/26/2009 6:03 AM EDT
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First: 2/13/2007 Last: 5/26/2009 |
If you are in California, you can order software from the California Chamber of Commerce. I like this because it goes through what is required in this state, what is recommended to have, and some "optional" policies that you may not have thought about. You may not get the same legal accuracy if you peruse free handbooks online meant for various states. |
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