What can a great employee handbook do? Get your new hires up to speed faster. Set clear expectations. Eliminate the stress of ad hoc, arbitrary decision making. And, by detailing your compliance with federal and state regulations, even defend your practice against claims of discrimination or unfair treatment. With the AAHA Guide to Creating an Employee Handbook, you can easily create a professional handbook tailored to your unique practice. This comprehensive new edition includes updated information on articulating practice culture and your commitment to diversity; rules and policies for social media and cell phone usage; antiharassment, violence prevention, and bullying (including cyberbullying) policies; and protocols surrounding marijuana laws, e-cigarettes, and vaping. The AAHA Guide to Creating an Employee Handbook also includes exclusive access to a companion website with a customizable, downloadable employee handbook, a planning worksheet for mapping out a timeline to complete your handbook, and sample acknowledgment forms for new hires.

Every company needs an employee handbook, but not every company has one. Lawyers charge thousands of dollars for a handbook; other "do-it-yourself" products don't offer the updated legal information and careful guidance necessary to do a good job. Create Your Own Employee Handbook bridges the gap, with detailed explanations, information on current state and federal laws, and more than a hundred sample policies you can tailor to your own workplace.

This concise yet comprehensive reference helps employers responsibly and effectively deal with the basic personnel issues they face each day. It guides employers in the development of a cohesive personnel program that is tailored to meet their companies' unique needs and goals. The author explicates potentially confusing matters such as employment-at-will, equal opportunity, sexual harassment, the disabled and immigrant and legal alien workers in lay terms and points out the dangers of oversight. Stressing the importance of consistency and documentation, he addresses the full range of personnel issues. An invaluable resource for any business that doesn't have a personnel expert on staff. CD contains sample employee handbooks, federal regulations and laws, forms for complying with government programs and worksheets for assessing personnel needs and goals.

Provides human resource professionals and business owners guidance in creating an employee handbook, covering such topics as hiring, payroll, benefits, performance evaluations, and privacy in the workplace.