Policies and Procedures

New and Updated

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  Handbook Templates

  Crime Victim Leave Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers seeking to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of leave for this purpose and to show their compliance with Alaska's crime victim leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Weapons in the Workplace Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers seeking to prohibit weapons in the workplace and show their compliance with Alaska law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Cell Phone Use/Texting While Driving Handbook Statement: Maryland

  Maryland employers seeking to demonstrate compliance with Maryland's texting/emailing while driving law, to promote driving safety and to limit liability from accidents involving employees who are driving and using electronic devices for business-related purposes or in a company-owned vehicle should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  EEO Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers with one or more employees should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Access to Personnel Files Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers seeking to inform employees of the rules surrounding the review of their personnel files should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Overtime Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers with four or more employees that have nonexempt employees who work an excess of 40 hours in a week or more than eight hours in a workday should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Meal and Rest Breaks for Minors Handbook Statement: Alaska

  Alaska employers with minor employees (those under age 18) that seek to inform the minor employees and their supervisors about legally required meal breaks and to demonstrate compliance with Alaska law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Meal and Rest Breaks for Retail Employees Handbook Statement: Maryland

  Maryland employers that maintain a retail establishment in Maryland with at least 50 or more retail employees or who own one or more retail establishments with franchises working with the same trade name and have at least 50 or more retail employees in Maryland for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar in the current or preceding year should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Paid Sick Leave Handbook Statement

  Employers that elect to provide paid sick leave and seek to clearly establish the important components of the program, such as accrual, qualifying reasons for use, carry over and notice requirements should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.

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  Handbook Templates

  Personal Leave Handbook Statement

  Employers seeking to provide personal leave to employees, establish the terms of the policy and preserve the employer's discretion to approve or deny the request should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.