[SIZE=3]Set to Manual[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3](Preparing an Employment Manual)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]Want to make your life as an employer easier? Set your company policies and codes of conduct in an employment manual. And feel the reins tighten where it’s been otherwise lax to the detriment of your business. Show you’re running a professional business, show you mean business; avoid repetitive inimical behavior, avoid repeating yourself; identify responsibility, identify liability; let your guidelines govern, don’t be governed by your employees’ discretion. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]How to begin? It’s best to start with a foreword (indicating the manual’s aim and scope, disclaimers and other notices) then follow this with your company’s history, profile and vision and mission statements (to inform employees of your line of business, your business purpose, what you’ve been through and where you intend to go).[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]Next, provide a Definition of Terms to define crucial terms like “employee” and “compensation” and other company terms.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]You may wish to start with how employment begins. So begin discussing the procedures for recruiting and hiring. Then discuss the different status of employment – contractual, probationary, and regular. Might as well discuss employment records here – what they contain, when they are updated and who will have custody of and access to them. [/SIZE]

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