As with any legal document a company needs, there are great examples and horrible examples of employee guidelines, with lots of boring ones sprinkled throughout. While it is critical that the handbook ...

Every organization should have an employee handbook because they outline expectations, terms and conditions of employment, and, most importantly, minimize legal risk. However, a handbook is of little ...

A properly implemented employment arbitration program can provide a variety of benefits to employers and employees alike. Many employers have robust arbitration programs that require both the employer ...

When will the law consider an employee handbook the company gave out on Day One a contract enforceable against the employer? If an employee handbook, sometimes called an employment handbook, makes ...

Human resources departments usually have the task of informing employees about the rules and regulations of the company. To achieve this, many HR departments produce an employee handbook that can help ...

Despite a disclaimer, the Alabama Supreme Court held the City of Montevallo’s Employee Handbook created a contract with employees that placed additional obligations on the City before it could ...

When you go back to the origins of HR, the function was largely driven by compliance and risk mitigation. How do we keep the company out of the headlines? How do we ensure employees don’t get the ...