Employment handbooks and manuals
Increased employment legislation means that employers often now provide new employees with employment handbooks or individual policies and procedures when they start work. These may be confusing or contain conflicting information that can lead to disputes in the workplace.
Other employers may provide no documentation, which can also give rise to disputes with employees over terms of employment or the way certain issues will be dealt with.
Where documents already exist, we can carry out a healthcheck to ensure that your employee handbooks, policies and procedures are legally compliant and help, rather than hinder, your business.
We can identify any areas that need to be brought into line with the latest legislation and redraft as necessary or, where new documents are needed, we can draw up handbooks or individual policies and procedures tailored to your business and covering issues including:
- absence policies
- alcohol and drugs
- codes of conduct
- confidentiality
- data protection
- discipline and grievance procedures
- email policies
- employee monitoring and the right to search
- equal opportunities
- maternity, paternity and family policies
- restrictive covenants
- retirement procedures
- staff development and appraisal
- stress
- workplace policies and rules.
For more information on how we can help you, please contact us on
01702 339222 or at employer@btmk.co.uk
