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Personnel Touch HR Consulting > Policies and Manuals

Policies & Manuals

Policies and manuals are the core to any successful human resource program. Let us help you craft and/or maintain your human resource policies and generate manuals to explain them or make use of the templates made available to myHRweb clients. Below is a few human resource manuals and policies we regularly assist our clients with.

Employee Handbooks

Employee handbooks are a way for employers to consistently ensure that employees know business rules. At times, employers fear that an employee handbook can be used against them. However, the fact of the matter is the where employers get in trouble is when the rules are enforced inconsistently or if the rules are not clearly communicated.

There are several items that should be covered in an employee handbook. Here is a quick, but not all inclusive, list of topics often covered in an employee handbook.

    1. Employment Relationship
    2. Equal Opportunity and Harassment Prevention Policies
    3. Code of Conduct
    4. Office Hours, Pay Policies and Pay Dates
    5. Holiday Policy
    6. Leave Policies: Vacation and Sick, and other leave
    7. Hiring and Promotion Policy
    8. Employment Status: Part and full time, and exempt versus non-exempt employees
    9. Tax and Homeland Security Requirements
    10. Communications, including e-mail, Internet and phone, Services
    11. Receipt of Handbook Acknowledgement

A template for an employee handbook is available on the Manager Dashboard for myHRweb clients. Our Personnel Touch HR consulting team can help you modify this template or create a personalized one to meet your company's needs. Learn more about why your company should have an employee handbook and what should be in it by reading our "Why an Employee Handbook?" whitepaper .
 

Affirmative Action Plan

Do You Need an Affirmative Action Plan?

If you need to ask, probably not. However, employers with government contracts of over $50,000 per year and over 50 employees may be required to have in place an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). Developing and implementing all of the necessary parts to an AAP can be time consuming, confusing, and frustrating. Our Personnel Touch human resource consultants have experience with creating these plans and can help employers prepare for this change in their business practices. After implementing the plan, we can help on an on going basis with the maintenance, and the reporting requirements. 
 

Safety and Security Plans

Need help documenting your safety program? Or setting up and implement safety training ? What steps is your company taking to reduce the risk of injury and encourage a safe working place? Are tracking and reporting measures in place? If not, we can help!
 

Policies & Procedures

While employee handbooks act as an introduction to the general rules of a business, Policies and procedures, or P&Ps, are more thorough. P&Ps not only explain the rule but also how to administer the rule. With that amount of detail, it is probably obvious that not all rules require a formal P&P.

In deciding what rules should be developed into P&Ps, the employer must evaluate which of the rules needs to be emphasized in their workplace. Some of the more important P&Ps should be those based on state or federal laws which require special handling of certain situations. Some examples include:

  • Confidentiality and HIPPA Security
  • Requests for leave, specifically request for FMLA
  • Equal Opportunity and Harassment, which includes language on how to report and investigate (for managers)
  • Performance Management (i.e. performance reviews and salary increases)
  • Communication Services


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