Are Employee Handbooks Required?
Are Employee Handbooks Required? Friday September 3, 2010 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Is having an employee handbook the law, asked another reader recently. Not something I have ever really thought about in the past. Here is my response. What do you think? Good question. I don’t know of a law that mandates employee handbooks; some laws, depending on where you live, mandate certain policies or procedures. These may or may not be in an employee handbook. That said, an employee handbook is in the best interests of both the company and the employees. It provides a set of guidelines for how things will be handled in your company. This protects you from such issues as favoritism and discrimination charges. Employees feel that they are treated equally when the procedure is w