Easy to use, Guide To Employee Handbooks provides step-by-step, “what-to-do” and “how-to-do-it” guidance for creating or upgrading employee handbooks. The text offers comprehensive coverage of problems most likely to be encountered and is designed to give you confidence in arriving at viable compliance and legal solutions. Chapter topics include: Developing an employee handbook Employment-at-will Employment policies Compensation policies Time-off benefits Group health and related benefits Employee conduct Appendixes include: A model handbook Federal and state employment laws Severance pay summary plan descriptions Model guidelines for unionized employees Mediation and arbitration Use of arrest and conviction information