Like all good employment lawyers, I encourage my clients to have an employee policy manual that outlines, among other things, the company’s expectations regarding employee performance, explaining the available benefits, setting guidelines for using the company technology and prohibiting harassment, violence and drug abuse.

I regularly draft new policy manuals for my clients or review and revise their old manuals. There are several serious blunders I often run across in the employee handbooks I review. If you are a business owner or supervisor, pull out your handbook now, blow the dust off the top of it and crack it open to see if you have made similar mistakes in your manual: Continue reading Policy Manual Blunders →