tailieunhanh - create your own employee handbook a legal and practical guide phần 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'create your own employee handbook a legal and practical guide phần 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER 8 Employee Benefits Most employers spend a significant amount of their labor budget on benefits for their employees. Indeed about 40 of an average employee s compensation package goes toward benefits. Employers do this with good reason. Generous employee benefits can help you entice high quality workers retain valuable employees and improve labor relations. In addition good benefits can actually assist your employees in being more productive and effective. An employee with health insurance is less likely to miss work due to an untreated illness than an employee who s worried about racking up doctor bills for example. Of course you can only reap these rewards if your employees actually know about and take advantage of the benefit programs that you offer. Too often employers pay for benefit programs that their employees don t even use because the employees either don t know about the program or don t understand it. Your employee handbook is the ideal place to acquaint your employees with their benefits. The handbook is not however the ideal place to educate your employees about every last detail of each benefit program. This is because benefit programs unlike employee handbooks tend to change even if only slightly every year. If you put too much information in your handbook you ll have to rewrite it every time you need to change and adjust your benefit programs. Or if you leave out-of-date information in your handbook you risk having your employees rely on that information unaware that the benefit no longer exists or that it has changed significantly. This could damage labor relations the opposite of what you want and even leave you vulnerable to a claim from the employee that you breached a contract in the form of handbook language over the benefits that you would offer. As a result most employers choose to make their handbook descriptions of benefits quite general leaving the details to separate handouts and brochures that they can distribute to employees .