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Does Your Employment Policy Manual Need Attention? Tips and Traps for Writing & Updating Your Policies for 2025
- Key policy issues (old and new) to address for 2025
- The impact of the NLRB’s 2023 Stericycle, Inc. ruling on how your policies must be written.
- The impact of employment policies on compliance and legal exposure
- The structure and contents of your organization's policy manuals
- Common mistakes made in policy manuals
- Essential policies your manual should include, and NOT include
- Old and new policies requiring special attention
- Preparing multi-state policy manuals
- Proper language to use to keep you out of trouble
- Model policies, and format for policy and administrative guidelines or procedures.
Overview of the webinar
Employment policies are critically important in any organization, and they need to be written properly, and be up-to-date. They can either be a shield to protect you from liability, or they can be a sword to be used against you in litigation or any other adjudication. It’s up to you. Are you ready for 2025?
The policy manual should be reviewed and modified constantly as the workplace and its laws and practices change. Parts of the manual are standard, covering basic rules and legal obligations, but much of the policy is discretionary and tailored to the specific culture of an organization.
An employment policy manual (employee handbook) is a powerful tool to communicate your organization’s policies and culture and can help set the tone for the entire employment relationship. It can also form the first line of defense in an employment lawsuit or investigation. If your company doesn’t have a policy manual, or it hasn’t been reviewed in the last year, this webinar takes a deep dive into the most important policies for your handbook and what you’ll want to consider when drafting them.
In this practical webinar, we will discuss best practices for writing policies, procedures and supporting documentation to help you develop logical and easy-to-understand documents. We will also explore tips for writing proper policies, and traps to be avoided in your policy manuals, and assuring that organization-wide policies and practices are uniformly enforced.
Who should attend?
- HR Directors
- HR Managers
- Employee Engagement Coordinators
- Training and Development Managers
- HR Analysts
- HR Business Partners
- Onboarding Specialists
- Policy Development Officers
Why should you attend?
Make sure that your employment policy manual (employee handbook) is up-to-date, current, and properly written.
- When was the last time you updated your employment policies? If you haven’t updated them at least 3 or 4 times in the last year, your policies are probably out-of-date.
- Are your managers and supervisors well-trained in the affirmative legal duty to uphold and enforce your policies as they are written? If not, they could be creating liability exposure not just for your organization, but also for themselves as individuals.
Faculty - Dr.Steven G. Meilleur
Steven G. Meilleur, Ph.D., SPHR – is President, and CEO – of PRAXIS Management Solutions, LLC, a New Mexico-based management consulting firm specializing in human resources, employee relations, leadership, training & organizational development, organizational research and assessment, strategic & operational planning, and non-profit organization management and governance. Dr. Meilleur has more than 40 years of management and executive-level experience in human resources, risk management, and organizational management in the private non-profit public, and private for-profit sectors.
He is also on the faculty of the UNM School of Public Administration in the graduate program, teaching in the areas of human resource management, nonprofit organization management, leadership, dispute resolution, organizational change, and human resource development. He has spoken at numerous conferences and workshops across the country and is a published author in the areas of human resources, marketing, leadership and management development, organizational change and innovation, non-profit organization management, and board development.
Dr. Meilleur received a BA in English Literature and Education from Bucknell University, an Executive MBA from the University of New Mexico’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, and his Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Learning from UNM. He received his certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Society for Human Resource Management in 1995.
Credits
HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org
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