Has the employer considered combining vacation time, sick time, and personal time into one “bucket” of paid time off? Does the paid time off policy line up with the employer's business objectives?

As year-end approaches, companies, both large and small, are busy closing out 2023 and putting plans in place for 2024. A key priority that should not be neglected as you make preparations to close ...

A comprehensive employee handbook is a necessity in today's business community. Handbooks exist so employers can effectively manage their workplace. Distribution of the handbook ensures that employees ...

A council panel is recommending the city administrator have some power to amend the city employee handbook.

The adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” could have been coined with employee handbooks in mind. A well-drafted employee handbook can solve many employment-related problems before ...

A well-written employee handbook specifies company rules and sets expectations for employee behavior. It also specifies your legal obligations as an employer as well as the rights of the employees. It ...

An employee handbook is one of the most important components employment attorneys advise companies to have and update regularly. The reasons for this are simple: employee handbooks not only formalize ...

As with any legal document a company needs, there are great examples and horrible examples of employee guidelines, with lots of boring ones sprinkled throughout. While it is critical that the handbook ...

When Wendy’s International LLC created its employee handbook, the company probably never imagined it would become the poster child for what not to do. Yet the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) of ...

A document that includes information that employees may need to refer to frequently in order to meet the terms and conditions of their employment Having established policies written in an employee ...