Want to craft an employee handbook that’s more than just rules? One that really speaks to your employees and showcases your company’s spirit? We’ve got you covered.
In this article, we’ll talk about how to design an effective employee handbook, including best practices and key considerations to make it informative and engaging.
Your employee handbook is critical to your company’s success. An effective handbook details everything from culture and values to day-to-day expectations to policies that help ensure compliance with employment laws.
Since it’s vital that employees read your handbook, you should make it as simple as possible to access. So, if you haven’t considered moving your employee handbook online, you should — and not just because that’s what we do here at Blissbook.
In this article, we’ll discuss handbook creation, highlight the perks of going online, and provide some factors to help you choose a platform.
Blissbook now has the ability to provide law change alerts to customers! What follows is an alert we recently wrote on a topic that can affect all companies as it deals with how broadly many “work rules” are written.
On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision (Stericycle Inc.) that reverses an earlier precedent (Boeing) that itself had modified an earlier decision (Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia). Confused yet? Basically the NLRB said, “nevermind” to how they were operating for the past 6 years and moved back towards standards first established in 2004.
The NLRB said the primary problem with how they’re operating is that it permits employers to adopt overbroad work rules that chill employees’ rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the right to organize, form, or join a union).
An employee handbook covers everything from your company culture to day-to-day policies and information related to legal compliance. A good employee handbook reduces uncertainty, maintains consistency, and helps resolve conflict.
A table of contents makes your employee handbook easy to navigate. Even better, an electronic or digital employee handbook can include a table of contents with clickable links, making it even easier for employees to navigate to the specific information they need.
By the end of this article, you should know why you need a table of contents and how to create one.