Employee Handbook and other matters of national import

[charliesmum]

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.

Comments

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

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.