Policies, handbooks, and SOPs
Drafting and review of employee handbooks, workplace policies, standard operating procedures, acknowledgments, and the documents used in day-to-day operations.
Practice Area.
06 / 09
Employment counsel for the policies, classifications, documentation, and workforce decisions that arise in business operations.
In practice
Workplace decisions often turn on both the legal requirements and the record created before the decision is made.
Representative Work.
Drafting and review of employee handbooks, workplace policies, standard operating procedures, acknowledgments, and the documents used in day-to-day operations.
Offer letters, employment agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure terms, restrictive covenants, and independent-contractor agreements.
Counsel on hiring processes, onboarding documentation, performance concerns, disciplinary steps, terminations, resignations, severance terms, and related communications.
Review of employee and independent-contractor classifications, role structures, and related compliance questions.
Counsel on documentation, performance concerns, workplace complaints, discipline, and the steps leading to a decision.
Working Method.
HR matters are addressed with attention to the governing requirements, the available documentation, consistency across employees, and the practical effect on the business and its workforce.
A short conversation is usually enough to determine next steps.
tfehlinger@quincylaw.com