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Creating An Employee Handbook
October 8, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
$35No matter the size of your nonprofit it’s important to make sure everyone is on the same page. An Employee Handbook allows you to set out the internal rules for your company and saves you training time when a new employee is hired.
This workshop is designed to provide general guidelines and summarize basic personnel policies, employee benefits, employee responsibility and general personnel practices. It is intended to aid nonprofit organizations with comprehensive information. Learn about the many components of an employee handbook.
See samples of employee handbook policies (such as the good and the bad),
This workshop is designed to provide general guidelines and summarize basic personnel policies, employee benefits, employee responsibility and general personnel practices. It is intended to aid nonprofit organizations with comprehensive information. Learn about the many components of an employee handbook.
See samples of employee handbook policies (such as the good and the bad),
· Employee conduct policies
· Dress code
· Cell phone use
· Social media
· Computer use
· Employment at will
· Harassment prevention
· Attendance
· Overtime pay, etc.
The workshop is intended to guide nonprofits in creating a new employee handbook or in evaluating a current one. As with any document distributed to employees, it will need to be reviewed by an employment law attorney.
About the Presenter: Ann B. Plunkett
Ann has over thirty years of legal and human resource experience as corporate counsel, employment counsel and human resources executive in various corporate settings.
After two years in private law practice, she served as Assistant Counsel for TG&Y Stores Company, a national discount retailer based in Oklahoma City, OK. In 1985 Ann relocated to St. Louis to join the May Department Stores Company. As a senior Counsel at May Company, she specialized in employment law, handling a broad scope of legal and human resources matters for their numerous divisions through the country. Ann also gained hands-on human resource management experience at May, directing the store human resource function in an operating division.
At Fox Photo, Inc., a photo/imaging subsidiary of Eastmen Kodak, Ann combined her legal background with her human resource expertise, serving as General Counsel and Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to managing all legal business issues internally for 435 stores in 26 states, she directed the human resource functions including compensation, benefits, HR information systems, employee relations and federal and state compliance.
In 1998, Ann founded the full-service human resource consulting firm, WorkPlace Partners, Inc., which serves a myriad of companies in the St. Louis area and around the country. Clients include a number of industries and all sizes of businesses, from start up companies to large well-established enterprises and non-profit organizations. Ann serves as an expert witness in employment litigation around the country and is a frequent guest speaker on various employment related topics.