Keeping Up With Your Handbook:
Essential Changes to Make Now and What's Next
Downloadable, On-Demand Training
Train yourself, and your team, with this recorded webinar that covers:
What to include in your handbook ... and what to leave out.
Learn how to word policies and delete the ones that could land you in legal trouble.
Critical updates for the year ahead.
2020 was unlike any other. Make sure your handbook is updated correctly to cover everything from telework to sick leave.
Self-audits and maintenance how-to's.
Get the legal advice on the entire updating process, and what sections to always be ready to revise.
Master and maintain the #1 people management tool.
Whether your employee handbook is homegrown or crafted by experts, it’s critical you update it on a regular basis. Especially now, as business policies have to rapidly change to adapt to operating during a pandemic and in its aftermath. Plus topics like social media, grooming, harassment and paid leave continue to make headlines, typically at the employer’s expense.
Make quick work of reviewing and updating your handbook with our recorded workshop, Keeping Up with Your Handbook. In this downloadable training session, you’ll learn the crucial changes to make now, what lies ahead and the top handbook mistakes to avoid.
What's Covered in
Keeping Up With Your Handbook
- 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.
- Social distancing. Workplaces are forever changed. Make sure your handbook reflects new policies on safely following social distancing measures.
- Civility rules. You may think you’re keeping the peace, but you might be breaking the law.
- Telework. Why every handbook needs a section outlining telework rules.
- Dress and grooming policies. Why you need to revise hair rules ... and 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 federal laws.
- Sexual harassment. Don’t assume that with more employees teleworking, the problem goes away. You will need new rules for remote meetings including setting up for Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other virtual meetings.
- Handbook maintenance. When to review, how to update and who should approve. Plus, why you need a temporary handbook supplement and what it should include.
- Confidentiality rules. Secrets you can require be kept and what you can’t protect, like salary information.
Anniken Davenport is a noted employment law attorney and the editor of the HR Specialist: Employment Law newsletter series. She has authored several books, including Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook and Overtime & Other Tricky Pay Issues, published by HR Specialist.
She is the co-author of the upcoming Labor & Employment Law for the 21st Century by Prentice Hall. 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.
Anniken Davenport Attorney and author
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