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

Product Description

Avoid legal problems and run a productive workplace with an up-to-date employee handbook!
Anyone who hires and supervises employees needs clear policies when it comes to crucial issues like pay and overtime, medical leave, and social media. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook.
Find the latest legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on:

wages, hours, and tip pools
remote work
at-will employment
discrimination and harassment
complaints and investigations
health and safety
alcohol and drugs, including medical/legal marijuana
workplace privacy, and
email and social media.

This new edition covers recent updates to state and federal laws, including expanded rules on paid family and medical leave, sick leave, state temporary disability programs, and much more!
With Downloadable forms: Forms to help All policies and forms―along with modifications and alternative language you can tailor to your workplace―are available for download details inside.

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
“This guide is intended for employers, business owners, managers, and HR professionals in companies of all sizes (except those in unionized workplaces or workplaces with federal, state, or local government employees). The book provides standard language that readers can use to create an employee handbook, plus examples and guidance on writing their own language. The guide presents current law and best practices in areas such as wages, time off, drugs and alcohol, trade secrets, personal blogs, and discrimination. The book contains worksheets throughout, plus margin space for writing notes. Appendix A offers a list of forms for creating a handbook, and Appendix B lists state departments of labor and agencies that enforce laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. A companion web site for the book contains forms and updated legal info; the publisher’s main web site provides an employment law center, articles, FAQs, and more forms. This eighth edition is updated to reflect current state and federal law related to areas such as social media, e-cigarettes, and photography at work..” Eithne O’Leyne, Editor Ringgold, Inc. ProtoView

About the Author

Lisa Guerin is the author or co-author of several Nolo books, including
The Manager’s Legal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws, The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, and
Create Your Own Employee Handbook. 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.

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. Since leaving the active practice of law, she has earned a master’s degree in library and information science, specializing in legal research and law librarianship. She has written numerous employment law titles, including
The Performance Appraisal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, and
Create Your Own Employee Handbook. Ms. DelPo received her la