HR Handbook Ideas:
- Regular operating hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 5 days per week [Hour for lunch?]
- The Company requires confidentiality on the part of all its employees. Confidential information that must not be disclosed to any person who is not an employee includes, but is not limited to, names of customers, information about customer projects or other non-public customer information, company pricing and information that is proprietary to the Company. [What about Sarbanes Oxley?]
- If you are absent because of illness, your supervisor may request that you submit written documentation from your physician. The Company does not provide paid sick leave. If you are a non-exempt employee who is paid by the hour, and you are absent from work due to illness, you will not be paid during your absence. [Will you provide pay for days off due to illness? After probationary period? How many if any?] After probation period.
- There are 26 pay periods per year occurring bi-weekly. Changes to the pay day due to holiday closings will be determined and announced in advance.
- You must use your vacation in the year that it accrues. No wages or salary will be paid to you in lieu of unused vacation days. Vacation days accrue on your anniversary date as follows:
- 5 days after one year
- 8 days after two years [I added this. What are you doing in your business?]
- 10 days after three years
Patty and Bob at their former company gave one week after probation to use as sick days or vacation days. After one year they received 10 days. For this business they are considering no carryovers – use it or lose it but are researching the industry standard.
- Holidays
- New Years Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day [add Friday following?]
- Christmas Day
- All employees are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. [This form is not part of the original handbook. So if you want to include that in your policy, a form needs to be provided.]
It will be helpful to hear what you are planning or thinking in these areas. What are your thoughts about any or all of these items listed above?
NDA
[Found at Public Legal Forms.com: http://www.ilrg.com/forms/non-disc.html
EMPLOYEE NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
FOR GOOD CONSIDERATION, and in consideration of being employed by ___________________________ (Company), the undersigned employee hereby agrees and acknowledges:
1. That during the course of my employ there may be disclosed to me certain trade secrets of the Company; said trade secrets consisting but not necessarily limited to:
(a) Technical information: Methods, processes, formulae, compositions, systems, techniques, inventions, machines, computer programs and research projects.
(b) Business information: Customer lists, pricing data, sources of supply, financial data and marketing, production, or merchandising systems or plans.
2. I agree that I shall not during, or at any time after the termination of my employment with the Company, use for myself or others, or disclose or divulge to others including future employees, any trade secrets, confidential information, or any other proprietary data of the Company in violation of this agreement.
3. That upon the termination of my employment from the Company:
(a) I shall return to the Company all documents and property of the Company, including but not necessarily limited to: drawings, blueprints, reports, manuals, correspondence, customer lists, computer programs, and all other materials and all copies thereof relating in any way to the Company’s business, or in any way obtained by me during the course of employ. I further agree that I shall not retain copies, notes or abstracts of the foregoing.
(b) The Company may notify any future or prospective employer or third party of the existence of this agreement, and shall be entitled to full injunctive relief for any breach.
(c) This agreement shall be binding upon me and my personal representatives and successors in interest, and shall inure to the benefit of the Company, its successors and assigns.
Signed this _____ day of ____________________, 20____.
______________________________ _______________________________
Company Employee