Employee Handbooks: Best Practices
This Practice Note describes best practices for creating, distributing, and maintaining an employee handbook. It discusses key reasons to create a handbook or manual, drafting guidelines, considerations for employers that are creating a handbook from existing policies, tips for organizing a handbook, compliance with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), distributing a handbook, employee acknowledgments, and maintaining a handbook. This Note addresses federal law.
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