The Employee Handbook - Where To Start & How To Stop

Introduction

Businesses need a set of employment policies to outline the basic policies and procedures which govern the employment relationship that it has with its employees. Some employers like to put these together to form a staff or employee handbook.

Some policies might go in the handbook, but some might be better stored elsewhere. A business needs to think about how and where to present information, so it is easily found and relevant to its employees.

Some guidance will refer only to the statutory minimum requirements. Other policy wording may apply to the particular business in which the employees work. There are lots of different approaches in how to present this information, what to include and what to leave out.

So how do you know where to start in deciding which policies to provide for your employees to see? Do you also need to outline what HR need to do in any particular circumstance? Perhaps most importantly, when do you know when to stop writing policies and to define the point at which there is just ‘too much information’?

This webinar will offer some useful hints and tips when putting together a handbook or set of policies for your business.

This webinar will cover the following:

• How to link your handbook to your overall HR strategy and method of communicating to employees
• How & where to store, circulate and present your policies or handbook
• Policy v contract of employment - where to put your wording
• The type of information you would put in your handbook and keeping things ‘non-contractual’
• Defining which policies you need - looking at practicalities and legal considerations
• Assessing resources available to draft policies, whether you need a designer, what legal advisers might add and where to get your content from
• Policies you do not need and those which might be harmful to your business

This webinar was recorded on 10th November 2021