Optimum HR Systems Employee Handbooks

Your employees start to work for your company because they have goals and dreams to achieve, and some very concrete expectations from your organization. While the final interview and the hiring process will answer basic questions such as “How many vacation days per year do I receive?” or “Does the Health Insurance cover dental and vision expenses?”, information regarding many behavioral expectations are not covered in the initial interaction between employee and supervisor.
Your company has concrete expectations from each employee. The organization’s policy, mission and goals, should be clear to every new hire from the beginning of his/her tenure with your company. An Employee Handbook provides a detailed, documented explanation of your expectations as well as what the new employee can expect of you.
Optimum Human Resource Systems believe that a well written employee handbook is one of the most critical elements of organization’s employee relations program. Our Employee Handbooks are completely customized. The Employee Handbooks we create for our clients are designed to promote the benefits of employment in your organization, lay out specific behavioral expectations, prevent surprises that may tarnish your reputation or lead to disputes. As such, they are a great retention tool.

Key Components in Optimum HR Systems Employee Handbooks
We approach each client’s needs for the Employee Handbook individually, and the final results can vary greatly. There are, however, some common elements in each of the Employee Handbooks we write for our clients:

An overview of company history, mission and vision.
A Welcome message from the Senior Leader
Employment policies
Benefits
Paid/unpaid time off
Pensions, profit sharing and wealth accumulation plans.
Standards of conduct.
General information such as the location of the employee services, parking policies,
   use of company cars, personal telephone calls, etc.
Reader acknowledgment.

Optimum HR Systems service includes 12 months of comprehensive consulting services relative to the development, implementation and ongoing staff support of your employee handbook