Top Updates To Add To Employee Handbook In 2017

In any firm or company, it is very important to update the handbook of employees time to time. Laws are changing with time to protect rights of employees. To avoid any unwanted lawsuit, it is important to stay at right side of updated laws. If you are any employer and have not updated the handbook yet, you should update employee handbook as soon as possible.

When it comes to update handbook of the employees, you should add following updates in it:

Collective bargaining:

In this update, it is clarified that any company or employer must protect the right of speech of their employees. According to this law, you can prohibit any employee to reveal the confidential information of your company.

Social Media and Digital Data Policies:

The use of social media is increasing for work in most of companies. According to this update, handbooks must have clear instructions that employees can’t keep it private to access social media at work. If they are using it at workplace, they have no right to reveal any confidential information on it.

Pay and Deductions:

The clarification of overtime pays and deductions is always a problem at workplaces. Under the update of pay and deductions, if any employee wants to do overtime, they need to do it with permission of manager or employer. The company needs to clarify complete information about overtime pay and deductions.

E- Cigarette and smoking:

The company or employer must clarify about the use of e-cigarette or any other tobacco products. The employees need to follow rules of company to avoid smoking at workplace.

Attendance:

In this update of HR Employee Handbook, they need to update handbook with new terms and laws of leave. They need to clarify that how they will treat any employee who takes leave without any confirmation.

These are main updates that need to be added in employee handbook in 2016. Any company or employer must update the employee handbook time to time because the laws about worker and labor rights are updated time to time. If you are updating employee handbook time to time, you can stay at right side of laws.