Joycelyn Stevenson is office managing shareholder in the Nashville office of Littler. Toward the end of the year, we typically see an uptick in handbook inquiries as businesses prepare for policy ...

Despite a disclaimer, the Alabama Supreme Court held the City of Montevallo’s Employee Handbook created a contract with employees that placed additional obligations on the City before it could ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. An employee handbook is critical for businesses of all ...

For years, employee handbooks were treated as routine onboarding documents, i.e., something handed out on a new hire’s first day and rarely revisited unless a legal issue arose. But in 2026, the pace ...

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Employee handbooks should include equal employment opportunity policies Employee handbooks should include policies addressing health and safety in the workplace Creating an employee handbook can seem ...

There’s a lot you need to document properly for a startup, not the least of which is your employee handbook. When I decided to leave my previous startup and move on to a whole new idea, I put ...

Having established policies written in a handbook will eliminate confusion as to what you expect from your employees. As an owner of small company, you may wish to set policies yourself and take full ...

As a business owner, there are certain things that I inevitably put off until later. For many of my clients, the number one “put it off until tomorrow” activity is completing an employee handbook or ...