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Source: IRS Employment Review

Issue: 827

Date: 15/07/2005

Publisher: IRS

Communication, consistency and clarity are the key

TOPICS:

terms, conditions and employee rights	working time and leave policies and procedures
HR policy and strategy	business challenges
contracts of employment	staff handbooks terms of employment
employee relations	trade unions

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AUTHOR: Janet Egan

Whether it's a handful of photocopied pages or the centrepiece of an e-HR system, an employee handbook is one of the most important tools an organisation has for communicating and managing its employment policies, as an IRS survey shows.

Key points

In spring 2005, IRS conducted its first survey of the use of employee handbooks, including an investigation into what handbooks cover and how they relate to employment contracts.

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