Employee handbooks are a company's first opportunity to introduce staffers to the culture and expectations of their new workplace. Handbooks can also help employees to understand how the company expects them to engage and interact with coworkers. However, many handbooks forget an important truth: ugly as it may sound, the people who often read handbooks most carefully are lawyers hired by disgruntled or former employees – after a lawsuit has begun.
It is critical that employers maintain well-written handbooks that clearly ...