Employee Handbooks / Policies and Procedures / Team Building

For more than two decades, I've written, designed, redesigned, and updated employment applications, employee handbooks, and over of 3,000 policies polices, procedures and administrative directives for public/private sector, profit/non-profit, union/non-union, multi-site/multi-state, and international environments employers in compliance with employment law. Employment applications and employee handbooks are available upon request.

Presented below are examples of several employee handbooks I've written. Click image to review or download.
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REVISION OF ALL PERSONNEL RULES FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS
I was immediately responsible for leading and managing the addition, deletion, revision, and review of all personnel rules for the City of Dallas. Although this was not a unionized environment, the character and scope of employee relations mirrored such as captured in the content of the Personnel Rules book:
  • seven core Articles (Organization, Compensation, Leave Policies, Benefits, Rules of Conduct, Discipline/Grievance, and Injured Employees),forty-five (45) sections; and
  • nearly seven-hundred (700) sub-sections

As project lead, I independently designed a "Personnel Rule Change Worksheet (PRCW)" which: (1) presented the current rule; (2) requested observations/comments about the current rule; and (3) requested any revision, deletion, or creation of a new rule.

       

I used the PRCW to canvass all department directors and senior executives [approximately 75] on each personnel rule. Subsequently, I compiled and, if appropriate, consolidated responses, or I unilaterally proposed original rules. Next, I scheduled and coordinated a robust review process which included polling staff review of selected rules, securing and validating legal review of all rules, and preparing a final document for review and approval by the City Council.

During this entire process, I routinely meet with individual employees or groups of employees and management to discuss this process, including scope, cost impact, implementation, future revision and, where necessary, reconciliation with Civil Service Rules. The initial "grunt" work was completed in three months, with the first draft completed in six months, and City Council approval achieved approximately twelve months after conception of project.

 

Please keep in mind, I've already successfully accomplished (complete policy revision) what you might be preparing to do! Plus, I've conducted over three-(3) dozen employee surveys (management and non-management), drafted and secured consensus review, and implemented personnel policies and procedures on every conceivable HR issue including ADA, EEO, AA, employment, dress code, overtime, new employee processing, Bloodborne Pathogen, safety (OSHA), risk management, reinsurance, sick leave, EAP, employee grievance, etc.! To validate my management of this team building event, presented above-right is a page from the original personnel rules revision worksheet I used as my source document.
 
 
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