A policy manual and employee handbook should reflect the company’s employee relations philosophy. Therefore, it should be viewed by everyone in the organization as being more than a document that gets pulled off the shelf whenever an employment issue arises. Rather, it is a reflection of how an organization will treat each employee and what each employee needs to do to be successful within the company.
Employers should have separate supervisory policy manuals and employee handbooks. Supervisory policy manuals and employee handbooks serve separate purposes. Employers should develop both and keep them current. Certain information needed by managers should not be included in handbooks distributed to non-management employees. For instance, information such as steps to follow before terminating employees should never be included in employee handbooks. Such information is only appropriate for a supervisory policy manual. However, it is also important to have an employee handbook to apprise employees of company policy. Accordingly, employers should develop and maintain two distinct documents.
Supervisor’s manuals and employee handbooks should be carefully drafted to ensure that the wording of the manual...
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