Create a staff handbook

Key points

  • A staff handbook brings together and summarises an employer's policies, procedures and practices. Creating an effective handbook can help the employer to communicate its rules consistently to all employees.
  • Staff handbooks should communicate how issues such as harassment, discrimination, absence, family-friendly rights and other HR matters are dealt with by the employer.
  • When creating a staff handbook, the employer should understand the legal implications of making the handbook, or parts of it, contractual.

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