Employee Handbook: The Complete Guide for HR & Managers in 2025

Duration:
90 Minutes  
Instructor
Steven G. Meilleur

Your employment policy manual is a crucial management tool for sharing essential workplace rules.

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Overview

Your employment policy manual is a crucial management tool for sharing essential workplace rules. But getting those rules wrong can turn the tool into a weapon employment lawyers wield against your organization in court. Updating your handbook now is more important than ever.

This informative HR Webinar will outline for you the do's and don'ts of drafting an effective well-written Employment Policy Manual. We will explain the importance of a good employment policy manual. Firstly, it's essential for smooth operations. It should be the go-to authority for policies. Secondly, it's critical for more than new hire training. It expresses formal policies. It is the first place to look for legal clarification, for instance. Thirdly, you can use it to showcase your company culture.

Learn best practices for writing policies, procedures, and supporting documentation to help you develop logical and easy-to-understand documents.

Why you should Attend

Employee handbooks/manuals are essential for employers in today's litigious environment, and they are the number one most important tool that an employer can have to protect itself from future liability.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Protect your company from the top mistakes that employers make in drafting employee handbooks
  • Preventing claims of implied contract
  • Avoiding language that can give rise to claims of breach of implied contract
  • How to have a well-drafted policy and procedure
  • Why terms like probationary period and permanent employee can be problematic
  • The essential policies that your employee handbook should contain

Who Will Benefit

  • HR Professionals
  • Managers
  • Business Owners 

Speaker Profile

Steven G. Meilleur Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, SPHR is President/CEO of PRAXIS Management Solutions, LLC, a training and consulting cooperative with a team of expert, and experienced associates specializing in all aspects of human resource management, organizational management, research and assessment, risk management, strategic and operational planning, organizational development, and nonprofit management & board governance, in the public, private for-profit, and private non-profit sectors.

He also serves as Sr. Vice-President of Risk Services - HR & Employment, for Poms & Associates, leading a team providing consulting and other support services to clients nationwide in human resources and employment matters. Dr. Meilleur is also a faculty member with the UNM graduate School of Public Administration, teaching in the areas of human resource management, leadership, organizational behavior, strategy and change, and NPO management.

With more than 50 years of experience as a working professional in human resources in the public, private for-profit, and private non-profit sectors, having served in executive and other management positions.

Dr. Meilleur received his BA in English Literature and Education at Bucknell University, and his Executive MBA & Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He earned both the SPHR and SHRM-SCP professional certifications from the Society for Human Resource Management.
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