Comments on: Dear Reworker: What Belongs in the Employee Handbook? https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html Everything to make HR better Tue, 01 May 2018 10:03:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mehak Ghai https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html#comment-211579 Tue, 01 May 2018 10:03:03 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4800#comment-211579 One of the most important attributes of any successful business is a relationship built on trust between the employer and the employee. One very important tool to communicate and establish this relationship is through an employee handbook. It is the employee handbook that creates company policies, procedures, and expectations that serve to avoid potential conflicts and misunderstandings. Additionally, a well-written handbook establishes a structured work environment that builds company loyalty.

]]> By: Goober https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html#comment-211567 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 22:15:24 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4800#comment-211567 In reply to jdgalt.

Unions often involve contracts, which are . . . contracts, and override the “at will” default.

In places, like certain very large school districts, it’s so hard to fire people the district just puts the bad teachers in a separate room with nothing to do. It costs less to pay them until they retire than it would to go through the union process to fire them. But that’s about as extreme an example as you’ll ever find.

]]> By: jdgalt https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html#comment-211566 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:01:01 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4800#comment-211566 In reply to Maria Rose.

I have worked on jobs where the union had so much power that you could no longer be fired at will, but only for reasons specified in the handbook. That’s unusual, but it does happen.

]]> By: Maria Rose https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html#comment-211565 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:31:41 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4800#comment-211565 Interesting comment about “status” of an employee after that “probationary period”. I had to comment on that specific item as I have seen drastic changes in employee performance and availability after that probationary period from doing proper performance and open availability to barely meeting the performance and availability because they feel that they no longer can get fired, not releasing than even in a “union” situation job, they can be fired “at will”. This comment by EvilHR lady gives the employer a better way to keep performance and availability at the peak level as expected at hire. It also emphasizes to workers that some “so-called” rights aren’t there because of lack of labor laws for that right. Unfortunately right to work law prevails unless otherwise stated by a law.

]]> By: grannybunny https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/04/dear-reworker-what-belongs-in-the-employee-handbook.html#comment-211563 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:10:57 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=4800#comment-211563 That should be “tenet,” not “tenant.”

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