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| Employee Handbook |
| The Employee Handbook: A Tool to Prevent Employment Litigation |
One of the services our company provides is assistance in publishing a worksite manual or employee handbook. Our experience level makes it possible to draft a company policy that more effectively communicates personnel policies to employees and acts as a guide to ensure that those policies are enforced consistently.
This helps reduce the possibility that you will be sued by a former employee. Because we deal with human resource issues in such volume, our experience level helps assure you that all of the “potential litigation bases” will be covered. We deal daily with issues and risks while you might not even be aware that they exist.
Here’s how we help protect you:
When The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigates charges of discrimination, their “primary focus,” according to attorney Diane E. Stanton, “is whether the employer charged with discrimination can show the employee alleging discrimination was treated the same as similarly situated employees.” In other words, could your company document, through written records and policies, that the employee was treated exactly like any other employee would have been in the same situation?
Ms. Stanton continues: “If a company can provide the investigating agency with a copy of the handbook, a copy of the employee’s signed receipt for the handbook, and the documentation that shows the employee was treated in accordance with the policy, i.e. consistently, the charge of discrimination is usually dismissed.”
Be aware that some states consider an employee handbook as a “contract” of sorts, and the handbook might need to include an appropriate “disclaimer” which will indicate to the employee that it is not intended as a contract and is for informal purposes only.
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