Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers

Avoid legal problems and run a productive workplace with an up-to-date employee handbook!

Anyone who hires and supervises employees needs clear policies when it comes to crucial issues like pay and overtime, medical leave, and social media. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook.

Find the latest information, practical suggestions, and best practices on:

• wages, hours, and tip pools
• remote work
• at-will employment
• discrimination and harassment
• complaints and investigations
• health and safety
• alcohol and drugs, including medical/legal marijuana
• workplace privacy, and
• email and social media.

This new edition covers recent updates to state and federal laws, including laws regarding employees who are pregnant or breastfeeding, discrimination laws, electronic communications, and much more.
With Downloadable forms: All policies and forms—along with modifications and alternative language you can tailor to your workplace—are available for download details inside.

Sachi Clements is a California-licensed attorney who writes for the Witkin Treatises on California law. She practiced employment law at a firm focused on representing small to mid-size companies, where she drafted employee handbooks, lead manager trainings on employment policies, and represented businesses in discrimination, sexual harassment, and wage and hour disputes. Sachi is also a former Nolo editor specializing in employment and workers’ compensation law. She has authored or coauthored several Nolo titles, including The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws. Sachi graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law.