About the Employee Manual and Employee Handbook Software
 What is the Employee Manual and Employee Handbook software?
Even a small business with only a few employees still needs certain legal safeguards. Providing all employees with a professionally designed handbook, employment
contracts and standardized legal forms protects the business owner. You can easily prevent unwarranted litigation while giving clear employment
guidelines! Use the Employee Manuals and Human Resources Legal Forms
software package from Standard Legal to create a fully-customized Employee Handbook and give your business the comprehensive human resources protections it needs.
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EMPLOYEE MANUAL & HUMAN RESOURCES LEGAL FORMS SOFTWARE
It is critical in today's "litigation and lawsuit happy" society to protect the substantial investment of
time
and money that any owner puts into a business. If you have even a small handful of employees, an Employee Manual is one of the best protections
you can create to prevent overzealous litigation, be it from a current employee or a previously fired worker.
The Employee Handbook software from Standard Legal sets forth the rules, regulations and guidelines that most employers should publish and
distribute to their employees. These rules effectively cover the most common situations and scenarios that affect the everyday workplace -- it is
these types of published rules and guidelines that will help you protect yourself and your business from unwarranted litigation.
The fully-developed handbook template contained within the employee manual kit, together with its step-by-step instructions for customizing and
completing it, will allow a business owner or manager to prepare a thorough and concise employee manual. Because the program is complete
and simple to use, in most cases the business owner can produce this document without the expense of an attorney. The manual should take
most users less than 30 minutes to complete and customize, and is geared for small to medium sized businesses.
The Standard Legal Employee Manual software provides a professionally
designed handbook laid out in "book format", complete with headers,
chapter titles, page numbers, etc. There are no graphics contained
within the content, so you can easily customize the look of the manual
to your tastes, even adding your own company logo prior to printing.
Here's an example of the thought and planning put into this do-it-yourself legal software package.
The employee manual does NOT contain state-specific language or a
repurposed listing of state laws, codes or regulations. A well-written
employee handbook should NEVER contain such off-topic material. Adding
state-specific language into an employee handbook runs counter to the
two primary reasons for creating such a manual: protecting the owner(s)
of the business and the business itself from litigation; and providing
the most fundamental and necessary employee directives to all workers.
If employees want to research state laws and workplace regulations,
they can do so easily at published state government sources.
EMPLOYEE MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
- TRIAL PERIOD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- EMPLOYMENT STATUS
- WORK HOURS
- PAY PERIODS
- HOLIDAY POLICY
- VACATION LEAVE POLICY
- TELEPHONE USE
- ATTENDANCE POLICY
- TIME CARDS
- CLEANUP
- WRITTEN NOTICE
- EMPLOYEE CONDUCT/WORK ENVIRONMENT
- WORKPLACE VIOLENCE POLICY
- ENFORCEMENT OF POLICIES
- EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
- WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIMS POLICY
- DRUG FREE WORKPLACE
- OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT
- JOB DESCRIPTIONS
- TRAVEL AND EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT
- PERSONNEL RECORDS
- CONFIDENTIALITY POLICY
- COMPANY DRESS/GROOMING
- COMPUTER USE
- MAJOR MEDICAL HEALTH INSURANCE
- OTHER BENEFITS
A. Retirement Plan
B. Leave of Absence
1. Disability Leave
2. Other Leaves of
Absence
C. Jury Duty
D. Military Duty
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY
- POLICY GOVERNING SEXUAL HARASSMENT
BONUS #1: HUMAN RESOURCES LEGAL FORMS
In addition to the Employee Manual, this employee management legal
software package contains the most comprehensive series of
employee-related legal forms, contracts, handbooks, manuals, agreements
and posters available anywhere:
Authorization
for Criminal Background Check - This form will allow a
company, organization or other entity to gather information sufficient
to conduct a background check on a potential employee (or even
volunteers). The form also grants the permission or authorization from
that the person on whom the check will be done to the company or
organization.
Employee
Arbitration Agreement Form - Avoid costly litigation at
the
hands of disgruntled current or former employees. This binding
agreement requires any and all claims that could be directed against
your company from current or former employees be sent to binding
arbitration rather than costly and time consuming litigation. Save
thousands of dollars, avoid the aggravation of court and the specter of
never-ending litigation.
Employee Review
Form - Allows you to prepare a relevant and company/job
specific job review form so that your management personnel can conduct
thoughtful, insightful reviews of your employee's work performance. By
providing information to your employees regarding their strengths and
weaknesses, you can improve your company's productivity and retain
well-trained and properly motivated employees.
Employment
Contract - this agreement, between your business and its
employees, establishes an "at-will" employment relationship, sets forth
compensation for the employee, provides for non-disclosure of the
employer's business secrets and contains a non-compete agreement.
Consultant
Agreement - if your business needs the expertise of an
industry insider but does not want the burden and expense of putting
that person on payroll full-time, consider retaining that person as a
consultant. This form creates an independent contractor relationship
between your company and the consultant with the expertise you desire
to tap.
Sales
Representative Agreement - If your business is in need of
a sales
force but does not desire the hassle, burden and cost of full-time
employee representatives, this agreement is perfect for your business.
This agreement establishes an independent contractor-type relationship
with the sales representatives. The representative is paid a commission
that you negotiate only when the sales representative sells your
products and you are paid by your customer on that sale.
Employment
Application - Use the information and questions listed on
this form to obtain concise and accurate information from potential
employees.
BONUS #2:
FEDERALLY-REQUIRED EMPLOYEE NOTICES POSTERS
The Federal
Government requires that employers post in a conspicuous
place at their
business certain posters describing information on minimum wage, OSHA matters, EEOC, etc. This software contains such posting requirements in
standard text format, as provided verbatim from the U.S. Department of
Labor. Note that there may be specific state law posting requirements in addition to those contained in our software; the introductory text
file provides a suggested web reference to review these requirements.
The forms provided in this do-it-yourself legal forms kit are the most up-to-date, legally accurate and easiest-to-use in the industry. Many
of our competitors provide forms that are poorly formatted, out of date or simply filled with inaccurate instructions. On our website are 13 REASONS why our Legal Forms Software packages are the clear choice for
do-it-yourself legal products! Also, check out the software format features listed on our website and you'll get a look inside the software to see how it works!
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