Employee Handbooks are invaluable tools. They provide clarity on what employers and employees can expect from their working relationship and contain important details of the rights enjoyed by employees, such as “family friendly” rights like maternity and paternity leave.
They can also be used to promote an employer’s values, for example by promoting equality and diversity and demonstrating zero tolerance for discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind.
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Policy and procedure documents allow you to outline the ethos of your business and guidance on a range of topics, which apply to daily working life for your employees. They are not usually contractual.
The key benefit of workplace policies is that they can cover a variety of issues, tailored to suit the needs of your business. It is common, however, to use policies to set out expected standards of behaviour by employees, diversity aspirations and detail relating to sickness absence and pensions.
An Employee Handbook is a collection of policies and procedures, collated to suit the needs of your business and provided to all employees (as a physical copy or digitally) when they start working for you.
The contract of employment should be used to set out the key rights and obligations between the parties. However, non-contractual policies allow the employer more freedom to change practices from time to time without the risk of a breach of contract claim.
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