With numerous state employment laws about to take effect Jan. 1, many employers are revising their employee handbooks. HR professionals are considering if they want to take a bare-bones approach, offer a lengthy handbook, or do something in the middle.
Chelsea Mesa, an attorney with Seyfarth in San Francisco, prefers somewhere in the middle. Handbooks do not need to be exhaustive because few laws require employers to have workplace policies, she noted. But these documents can be “a good shield and sword,” she said, plus they are a useful way to highlight policy changes.
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