Online Webinar 2019 - Live Webinar 3-Hour Virtual Seminar on Updating Your Employee Handbook to Comply With New Laws in 2019

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The purposes and the scope of employee handbook policies and the practices are changing and expanding. From a siloed HR activity that creates insular documents concerned primarily with communicating the organizational work rules and benefits, employee handbook policies and practices have evolved into a critical component of an organization-wide management process that maximizes organizations' achievement of business objectives, enhances the value of their human capital, and minimizes legal risk.
To increase the effectiveness of their employment policies, organizations will have to: 1) enhance their business, operational, and legal intelligence to ensure they have identified the changing external and internal factors that affect their policies; 2) increase internal stakeholder participation in the handbook development process to obtain greater employee commitment and operational alignment; 3) establish new metrics to assess handbook policy and practices performance and measure the achievement of organization goals; and 4) implement internal controls that identify and alert management when employee handbook process failures occur.
Thus, employee handbooks will increasingly have to ensure that they are aligned with strategic and business objectives, are properly drafted, and are effectively implemented.
Additionally, they will have to:
Enhance the employment brand
Play a key role in recruitment and retention
Enhance employee relations, employee morale, and productivity
Contribute to uniform and consistent application, interpretation, and enforcement of organizational policies and rules
Protect the organization against claims of improper employee/supervisor conduct
Reduce the organization's exposure to employment related liabilities
From this perspective, employee handbooks will continue to play an important role in communicating with and providing information for employees.
Session Highlights
Key employee handbook issues in 2018 and 2019
A review of the NLRB's revised commentary on employee handbooks
How organizations can reduce the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation
Review the basics of employee handbook development
Discuss the expanding purposes and scope of employee handbooks
Learn the dimensions of critical handbook policies
Understand the framework of employee handbook audits activities
Why Should you Attend
Employee handbooks are a critical tool in providing important information to employees. They describe what you expect from your employees and what employees can (should) expect from you. Employee handbooks provide critical information about your organization your workplace. Employee handbooks tell employees are expected to fit in.