Has the employer considered combining vacation time, sick time, and personal time into one “bucket” of paid time off? Does the paid time off policy line up with the employer's business objectives?

As with any legal document a company needs, there are great examples and horrible examples of employee guidelines, with lots of boring ones sprinkled throughout. While it is critical that the handbook ...

Business owners with small teams of four or five people usually ignore (or aren’t aware of) the importance of an employee handbook. Even the term “employee handbook” sounds overly official and may ...