Bring your handbook and a red pen to this interactive workshop.

• Templated handbooks. Why you still have to customize them to stay out of court.
• Contract language. Make sure you don’t accidentally tie your hands on future changes while destroying at-will employment.
• Equal opportunity statement. What, exactly should it say?
• Confidentiality rules. Secrets you can require be kept and what you can’t protect, like salary information.
• Social distancing and safety rules. Workplaces are forever changed. Make sure your employee manual reflects new policies on safety and following social distancing measures.
• Civility rules. You may think you’re keeping the peace, but you might be breaking the law.
• Military leave and return. Learn why handbook rules for some kinds of time off may trigger paid military training leave.
• Telework. Why every handbook needs a section outlining telework rules.
• Dress and grooming policies. Why you need to revise hair rules. Plus, how to set rules on appropriate attire during Zoom and other virtual meetings.
• Employee leave. How to tread lightly - and correctly - on this important topic. Plus, updating your FMLA emergency leave and paid sick leave policies to conform with recent on again off again federal laws.
• Sexual harassment. Don’t assume that with more employees teleworking, the problem went away. You will need new rules including setting up for Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other virtual meetings.

Your host, Anniken Davenport, has literally written the book on handbooks.

Davenport is a seasoned employment law attorney who has authored several books, including Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook and the HR Specialist: Employment Law newsletter series. Anniken has served as a professor at Penn State University, where she taught business law and HR management, and she directed the Legal Studies Program at Wilson College. Her legal career includes representing government units in discrimination and other employment law cases and representing school districts in labor negotiations.

Build an employee handbook that's clear, concise and legally sound.

• Revisions you must make for the new working world. From new federal discrimination rights to shifting paid leave provisions, get a legal breakdown of what you must add and update.
• What to edit and how to write it. We’ll walk through the issues you submitted and how to edit your handbook to fix them. Plus, the top 10 employee handbook mistakes employers are making and how to avoid doing the same.
• The smartest way to version and distribute. Get the why, how and what for communicating changes, adding supplemental sections and versioning to meet multi-state employment laws.