ARE YOU READY FOR 2025? Time to Review and Update Your Employment Policies
Your employment policy manual is essential for smooth operations. It should be the go-to authority for policies. Secondly, it’s critical for new hire training. As such, it should be the first place to look for legal clarification. Thirdly, you can use it to showcase your company culture.
An employment policy manual is a document in an organization that contains policies and procedures with which employees are expected to comply. It also contains legal clarifications and updates to help employees understand the employer’s policies and procedures at a given time and place. A well-written manual also gives employers the opportunity to establish and communicate the company’s culture.
Employers should first assess the contents of the handbook to determine what should be updated and what should remain in the handbook. You should also ensure that the handbook contains certain information. Additionally, the content review helps to determine what should be included in the handbook that will be beneficial to the employees while they perform their duties. Areas covered include:
- Review and updates for 2024-25
- Common mistakes made in policy manuals
- Essential policies your manual should/shouldn't include
- Preparing multi-state policy manuals
- Proper language to use to keep you out of trouble
- Model policies, and format for policy and procedures
You should continue updating the employee handbook by looking for new regulations and laws that apply to the industry the organization deals in. Such laws will help employees know the newly expected regulations in the industry. Additionally, employers will become familiar with the new regulations which will help them adjust their job descriptions. There are different essential upgrades that companies should consider when writing and updating the employment policy manual for 2024-25.
Click on the following links to download the PDFs used in this webinar:
Webinar Handout - Time to Update Policy Manual 2024-25.pdf
California Employment Laws Effective Jan. 1, 2025.pdf
7 Employment Policies to Review in 2025.pdf
Update Your Employment Policies State Checklist for 2024-2025.pdf