Employee Handbooks: Your Roadmap for Success

Employment handbooks are often overlooked but they can be a crucial tool for any business's success.  A good employment handbook outlines what the business expects from its workers and clarifies the business's responsibilities to its employees, allowing the organization to run smoothly and avoid legal liability. A handbook can even shift the culture of a workplace.

Because workplace laws are constantly in flux, businesses must be aware of the legal developments that affect their obligations and their employees' rights and be able to communicate these effectively to their workforce. That's where a handbook comes in: these obligations are memorialized in an employment handbook that clearly outlines responsibilities, avoids confusion and misunderstandings, and can serve to reduce liability.

Employment handbooks also play a proactive role: they can help create and maintain a positive workplace culture. By establishing a company's values from the start, everyone can be on the same page about expectations and conduct, ensuring a healthy culture is created and nurtured.

This program will provide an engaging discussion on how to create an employee handbook that establishes a strong business foundation, limits the risk of liability, and maintains a healthy workplace environment. The course is taught by Poonam Lakhani and Katie Rinkus, employment attorneys and business counselors at The Prinz Law Firm.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review why every business needs an employment handbook
2. Identify the most crucial policies to include in a handbook
3. Examine how to develop custom policies that will increase efficiency and reduce liability
4. Use policies to reflect and positively shape workplace culture
5. Develop awareness of culture audits and listening
6. Apply best practices for regular employee training on handbook policies