Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook
Resource Material: ID# 1000093
About This Course:
When your employees throw the book at you, it will be the book you wrote!
Is your employee handbook an open invitation to sue you? With Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook, you will fix the 10 disastrous mistakes found in almost every employee handbook and protect against today's newest trends in litigation.
You'll also avoid the "cookie-cutter" trap and the policy-procedure blur, and secure enough wiggle room so you don't get pinned down in court.
Stop wondering about how you might be vulnerable—order Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook today and get the ambiguous clauses out and the solid protection in.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Protect Your At-Will Status
- Always Insert Disclaimers
- Audit Your Handbook
- The 10 Most Common Mistakes
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL?
- Consider the Jury
- Handbooks As Exhibit A
- A Dangerous Book
A LOOK AT THE LAW
- The At-Will Doctrine
- Chipping Away
- Your Handbook and the Union
- Disclaimers and Receipts
- What the Courts Consider
MOST COMMON MISTAKES MADE BY EMPLOYERS
- Using Form Handbooks
- Meshing Policies and Procedures
- Including a Probationary Period
- Being Too Specific
- Inconsistency With Other Documents
- No Disclaimer, or Not Enough in the Right Places
- Sabotaging Disclaimers by What You Do or Say
- Not Adapting the Handbook for Each State's Laws
- Failure to Update Frequently for Changing Laws
- Being Unrealistic
AUDITING YOUR HANDBOOK
- Where to Start
- A Checklist of Topics
- What Not to Include
- Outsourcing Your Handbook
- Binding Your Handbook
- Use Plain English
- Presenting Your Handbook
- One Company's Story
RECENT COURT RULINGS
- Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- Handbooks As Contracts
- Oral Promises
- Grounds for Termination
- Arbitration Clause
- Just Cause
- Disclaimers
- Changing the Handbook
- Other Terms in Handbooks