Employee Handbook Updates

So, you have an Employee Handbook. You purchased or revised it back in 2008. You made sure it protected your business; what you’ve strived so hard to maintain, as well as your employees; the lifeblood of your business’s future. You passed them out to new hires and made sure that they understood it thoroughly. You had all your bases covererd.

It’s now 2011 and a lot has changed. The economy has become sick off of its own bad habits, and many laws have been passed to mitigate that. The California law AB 2774 has recently changed the way the Division of Occupational Safety and Health goes about their business. It is becoming not just important, but an absolute necessity to get your Employee Handbook updated every year. Times, they are changing.

So, if you haven’t had your Employee Handbook updated in a while, you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone. Now, more then ever, the Employee Handbook is the main safe-guard against the ever watchful eye of the government. You can view past posts and see that we here at BizAssure have reiterated this point in several different ways. The importance of having your Handbook updated yearly cannot be ignored, and there is no better time than now to get that process started. The year is young, and that leaves you with fleeting opportunities.

Every month we receive dozens of inquiries into the implementation of Employee Handbooks. Some of these businesses have not had their Handbook updated for years. When they receive their review or new handbook, they are amazed by what has changed, and by what they were missing. After that, we usually hear back from them every year. So please, regardless of your method, make sure the suit of business armor you don this year is sturdy and strong! We here at BizAssure want this to be the year that the strong arm of the economy makes its long awaited return. For more information on this topic, please call us at (800) 549-7827, or you can email us at KnowMore@BizAssure.com.