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How to Turn EE Handbooks Into Your First Line of Workplace Defense!
In too many workplaces, employee handbooks are those dusty preprinted binders stacked in the corner of the HR department – handed out during new hire orientations, but rarely consulted by supervisors and workers or updated as workplace policies change.
That’s the recipe for big risks for your organization! Disgruntled employees—and their attorneys— always turn first to employee handbooks to support their claims and lawsuits. If your handbooks don’t contain the correct language, if they’re filled with outdated content, or if you haven’t enforced them consistently, you could be facing expensive, embarrassing legal troubles.
In under six hours, you and your supervisors will learn the latest dos and don’ts for using your handbooks to define the legal relationships you have with your workers and to set clear conduct and performance expectations on the job. We’ll also cover a comprehensive checklist of what you must include in your handbooks, as well as what you should never include! And, we’ll review the most common mistakes employers make with their handbooks, so that you won’t be destined to repeat them.
You and your supervisors can stay for all five sessions, or swap them in and out so supervisors attend just the sessions you want them to focus on (you’ll earn up to 5 hours of HRCI credit yourself!). Each session will include about 45 minutes of presentation time, followed by 15 minutes of live Q&A. You may submit your questions in real time, either over the phone or using the webinar interface—anonymously, if you wish.
Best of all, you can train your entire team for one low registration rate. It’s incredibly cost-effective training—perfect for these tough economic times.
Webinar Schedule (All times below are Eastern)- 11 am-12 noon: Employee Handbooks: The Basics
- The lurking legal dangers you're facing if your employee handbooks are outdated or gathering dust
- Best practices for outlining, drafting, producing, and distributing EE handbooks
- The types of language you should always avoid in your handbooks, from "probationary" to "permanent"
- What essential components you must always include in your handbooks – and which content you must never include
- Why the state in which you operate could make a big difference in your handbook (and what steps you should take if you're a multistate employer)
- 12 noon-1 pm:
Employee Handbooks: Defining Your Legal Relationships With EEs
- The language you should include in your handbooks to preserve and defend your at-will employment relationships
- What types of disclaimers you may use to prevent implied contract problems
- How you can hedge your bets by adding "subject to change at any time" language in your handbooks
- The best strategies for drafting employee acknowledgment forms (and collecting signed copies from your workers!)
- Other critical handbook elements – from part-time/full-time employment definitions to exempt/nonexempt guidelines – that will help you avoid hidden legal dangers down the road
- 1 pm-1:30 pm: Break
- 1:30 pm-2:30 pm: - Employee Handbooks: Covering Your Employment Law Bases
- What policies you must include in your handbook to address the most important employment law issues – from equal employment opportunity statements and family/medical leave act guidelines to policies prohibiting discrimination, harassment, and retaliation (use our handy checklist to review your current handbooks!)
- How to ensure that your existing handbook contents agree with the latest federal and state laws that apply to your workplace
- The employee notices (from COBRA rules to electronic monitoring practices) that you're required to include in your handbooks
- 2:30 pm-2:45 pm: Break
- 2:45 pm-3:45 pm: Employee Handbooks: Setting Expectations for Workplace Conduct and Performance
- Best practices for drafting handbook pages that spell out your expectations for employees on the job – from smoking, solicitation, and Internet usage to drug/alcohol use, the use of company equipment, and workplace violence
- How you should describe your disciplinary procedures in your handbooks to avoid confusion and loopholes
- What handbook policies you should include to address hours of work, absences, tardiness, and paid-time-off allowances
- The benefits information you must have in your handbooks – and how much detail you should include without locking yourself into specific benefit levels
- 3:45 pm-4:45 pm: Employee Handbooks: Defusing Their Hidden Legal Dangers
- What steps you should take in drafting and reviewing your handbooks to avoid inadvertent guarantees of long-term employment, statutory benefits, or other implied contracts with workers
- How to avoid the legal risks that result when you don't follow your handbook procedures (or you don't update your handbooks to reflect your newest workplace procedures)
- The special challenges that arise when your handbooks don't agree with your current collective bargaining agreements
- How to train your frontline supervisors in administering and interpreting your handbook policies properly
About Your Speaker:
Kristine E. Kwong, Esq., is a partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Musick, Peeler & Garrett, LLP. She advises and counsels clients on a wide range of business and employment issues, and her practice includes the drafting and updating of handbooks, policy manuals, codes of conduct, and severance packages. Kwong regularly produces and presents training programs for employers (and for Business & Legal Resources) on current issues of employment law. She earned her law degree from the University of the Pacific (McGeorge School of Law).
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