Handbooks are not just for compliance and good practices; they can also support your company culture.
The #metoo movement made it very clear that your employee handbook needs to show employees how to behave and what procedures must be followed when they don’t.
Your handbooks must be legally compliant, and there are clear solutions to getting there. What’s exciting is those handbooks can also play a role in defining company culture!
Do your employees WANT to read your handbook? Is it interesting? Attractive? Positive? Did they have any role in creating it?
How can you take advantage of graphics, multi-media, and online storage, in creating and sharing your handbook?
In this fast-moving training, attorney, author, and speaker, Don Phin, will take us through the basics of handbook compliance. Don will remind us about the importance of staying compliant with a wide range of laws, including those promulgated by Federal, State, and Municipal governing bodies, along with the myriad of regulations and case laws surrounding the interpretation of those laws.
Then Don will focus on the opportunities available in creating great employee handbooks. He will discuss how you can focus your handbook on defining and reinforcing your company culture, vision, mission, values, goals, and more.
Finally, he’ll talk about bringing your employee handbook to life and the opportunities that have been created by graphics, media, and the online storage and dissemination of handbooks.
We’ll discuss:
• Quick history into the evolution of employee handbooks
• Don’t put your disclaimers before your welcome letter
• At-will and other disclaimers
• Hiring and orientation
• Wage and hour
• Performance management and discipline
• Communication policies
• Benefits
• Leave Management
• Discrimination and Harassment
• Safety
• Bringing your employee handbook to life
Top Presenter to Leadership and HR Executives
Street-wise from the Bronx, Don Phin has been an employment law attorney since 1983. He litigated cases for 17 years and then quit cold-turkey when he realized nobody wins a lawsuit. Since leaving litigation, Don has presented more than 600 times to executives in US and Canada. Don has created over 30 online training programs, including many for Learn Formula. Don was the founder and President of HR That Works, used by 3,500 companies, and acquired by ThinkHR in January of 2014. He worked there for two years as a V.P. Don has written seven books, including his most recent, The 40/ /40 Solution: Mastering Emotional Energy in Leadership and Sales. Don loves inspiring with his speaking and training. He has a thriving coaching practice, and on occasion, is asked to investigate challenging workplace problems. Don lives in sunny Juno Beach, Florida
