Human resources professionals are tasked with the job of effectively managing the employees of a company and improving their performance. The current business environment requires HR professionals to not only devise new HR strategies but also comply with all the legal requirements and avoid any kind of liability.
To this end, an HR Employee Handbook is the most important requirement for a company. This handbook is a repository of all the procedures and policies that the employees of the company must be aware of all the time. The problem arises when such handbooks are not regularly updated by the HR professionals. This is because frequent changes made in employment and labor laws do not get reflected in the handbooks which are not updated. As a result, the employees are out of sync with the changes in the legal landscape.
The PHR - Professional in Human Resources must be updated at least on an annual basis in order to ensure that the company follows all the recent federal, local and state laws that have been passed by the respective authorities. Court decisions that could affect the company must also be included in the handbook.
HR professionals can enroll in seminars offered by some agencies for understanding various protections that the employee handbook must contain to protect them and other legal issues that must be updated.
Topics covered
1. Various tips are provided to frame handbook rules which are based on revisions to FLSA
2. Ways to avoid violating the provisions of FLSA and understanding recent court rulings concerning the issue of unpaid interns.
3. Drug free policy rules in view of the state medical marijuana laws.
4. Revisions to be made in the FMLA policy according to the rules on same sex marriage.
5. Assessing the anti-harassment policy of the company for determining its efficacy and making improvements.
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