charliesmum | Employee Handbook and other matters of national import

Well, I had been planning on posting an incredibly insightful and witty comment about communism, and how, when I was a gel, we were pretty much raised on the belief that the Communists were Teh EBIL because the government told the people how to think and what to believe, and shut down anyone who didn't think or believe the way they were supposed to, and I was going to question the fact that our government, to a lesser degree, is trying to do that now, but something for work came up that I'm hoping people can help me with.

I've been commissioned to create an employee handbook for my company. Up to now we haven't had one, being a small company, but it's grown enough that TPTB have decided they probably ought to conform to the rules that say a company must have one.

Now, during the course of my pathetic career, I have acquired about four million handbooks, but, life being what it is, I can no longer find any of them, since I probably threw them all away in my last bout of frenzied cleaning. I have tried to find templates on line, but most people want you to buy them, and I don't have any money to spend. I have a few things to work from, but I really need to make sure I comply with whatever information must legally be in there - sexual harassment and whatnot.

So, my request is this...does anyone out there have access to employee handbook info they could send me? Does anyone have any idea of what legally needs to be incorporated into the handbook?

It is very important to me that I do this right.

Thank you. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

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If their are rules that say you have to have one, wouldn't there be guidelines detailing what needs to be inside?

If their are rules that say you have to have one, wouldn't there be guidelines detailing what needs to be inside?

Prolly. I'm trying to find that - I've found lists of things that are inside, but I am hoping to find something that says 'legally you must have 1, 2, 3'.

Or something.

After I read and posted to your comment, I said, 'oh, guidelines! I didn't try that word!' and I Googled and found stuff.

So thanks!

Unless of course, you email in the next twenty minutes. Then I can email it before work. ;)

Glad to help!

I actually have a copy of the employee handbook from my last job (a corporate one) in my harddrive. I had a friend email it to me when they fired me, so I could make sure they fired me for no reason...which they did and I collected unemployment because if it. ;)
But enough about me.
I can email it to you if you'll give me your addy...send it to rayvyn2k at yahoo dot com.
I can't check that email until after work, so I can send it tonight.

carlos had to do one for the pop shop - i'm sure it's restaurant-y but he also had to do governmenty things, too. i will ask him if i can send you a copy or what his references were, etc.

we were pretty much raised on the belief that the Communists were Teh EBIL because the government told the people how to think and what to believe, and shut down anyone who didn't think or believe the way they were supposed to, and I was going to question the fact that our government, to a lesser degree, is trying to do that now

And back then, I think. Certainly the McCarthy scare was in large part about automatically vilifying anyone on the mere suspicion that they might have communist leanings, which, last I checked, holding non-capitalist economic/political beliefs was not *actually* treasonous. Though I'm sure they're working on it. Anyway, yesterday's dirty commies are today's Islamofascists, but I think the construction of an evil evil Other that all good Americans stand in opposition to is a decent example of " the government [telling] the people how to think and what to believe, and shut[ting] down anyone who didn't think or believe the way they were supposed to". Not on the level of the more repressive communist countries - in general (though not without exception) people don't get jailed by the US gov't for free speech, and though there are a variety of other methods used currently to inhibit free speech, free speech is still legal on the books. But, yeah. I see your point, and I too get frustrated at this construction of America as the one country that's automatically morally superior in all its actions, no matter what those actions are. I guess that's bog-standard unthinking "patriotism", but it is wearying.

A rule I think should be in every employee handbook:

7.165a All employees are expected to wear proper undergarments as need or required by your position. This means we don't want to see your un-brassiered 44DD's hanging to your navel or out the sides of your babydoll SuperGirl tee-shirt. And should you choose not to wear underpants, please don't feel the need to alert us to this event. There is not enough bleach to clean your ball-sweat of MY chair and the mental images out of my mind. Also, the proper use of shoes, meaning that they should remain on your feet during your shift unless you are injured by perhaps, a lack of underwear.

I hate to say this to you, but to do this correctly and not cause more problems than you are solving or preventing, there will almost certainly have to be legal counsel involved someway somehow. Because the freaking laws keep changing, vary from jurisdiciton to jurisdiction, yada, yada. I was very lucky to have a lawyer on retainer that I could talk to the one job I was in that I had to deal with updating (not creating whole cloth).

It's not your fault that you need something that costs money to do this right. There is a saying in Computer Science circles: Fast, Cheap, or Good: pick two. That is, if a solution's cheap and fast, it won't be good. If it's fast and good, it won't be cheap. If you pick cheap and good, it won't be fast. That saying applies to pretty much everything, IMO.

Having just taken up a job, I have my employee handbook on hand. It's retail, so not the same, but here's stuff I recognise from the office-based job I had before.

1) Sexual harassment policy/anti-racism in the work place
2) Dress regulations
3) Holiday/sick leave
4) Giving notice
5) Fire regulations
6) Building policies - aka, no smoking etc
7) Company 'slogan' - aka, that phrase to motivate people -_-
8) History of the company.

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