Second, you must comply with a tangle of state and federal laws that govern your personnel policies. The HR manual helps ensure that you have considered and devised an approach to all of them.

Without this roadmap, you run the risk of innocently violating one or more labor statutes with potentially serious consequences. You really need a Human Resources manual to produce even a meaningful staff manual.

The Staff Manual and Human Resources Manual I offer were originally developed for my own account. They will certainly have to be modified to fit your operation but it is always easier to edit than it is to create. It took me six months to write them and I wasn't trying to run a restaurant at the same time!

My Law of Creative Laziness ("Never do any more work than is necessary in order to achieve the results you want") suggests that you don't try to write manuals from scratch if you can get copies of other operators' manuals and revise them to meet your own requirements!

To make this process easier, the manuals are available for immediate download as computer text files in the most popular word processing formats.

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Prototype Restaurants
HUMAN RESOURCES MANUAL

CONTENTS

GLOSSARY

SECTION 1 - JOINING THE COMPANY
HR-101 Equal Employment Opportunity
HR-102 Company Rights
HR-103 Staffing Requests
HR-104 Internal Application Process
HR-105 External Application Process
HR-106 Immigration Control Act
HR-107 Employment of Relatives

SECTION 2 - EMPLOYMENT STATUS
HR-201 Job Classifications and Employment Status
HR-202 Confirmation Period
HR-203 Conversion of Temporary Staff
HR-204 Rehire of Former Staff

SECTION 3 - WORK RULES
HR-301 Work Week and Work Schedules
HR-302 Meal and Rest Periods
HR-303 Absenteeism and Tardiness
HR-304 Overtime
HR-305 Grooming and Dress
HR-306 Check Cashing, Pay Advances and Loans
HR-307 Non-Smoking Policy
HR-308 Sexual Harassment Policy
HR-309 Confidential and Proprietary Information
HR-310 Outside Employment
HR-311 Telephones
HR-312 Visitors
HR-313 Code of Conduct
HR-314 Problem Resolution
HR-315 Corrective Counseling
HR-316 Staff Meals
HR-317 Response to Government Inquiries

SECTION 4 - TIMEKEEPING AND PAY
HR-401 Timekeeping
HR-402 Pay Periods
HR-403 Holiday Pay
HR-404 Overtime Pay
HR-405 Garnishment
HR-406 Final Pay
HR-407 Bonus Program
HR-408 Benefits Contribution

SECTION 5 - SALARY ADMINISTRATION
HR-501 Salary Administration Program
HR-502 Job Descriptions
HR-503 Job Analysis
HR-504 Salary Ranges
HR-505 Performance Appraisals
HR-506 Salary Review

SECTION 6 - TIME OFF
HR-601 Holidays
HR-602 Personal Leave
HR-603 Sick Leave and Extended Medical Leave
HR-604 Bereavement Leave
HR-605 Military Leave
HR-606 Jury Duty Leave
HR-607 Court Service
HR-608 Leave of Absence Without Pay
HR-609 Voting
HR-610 Compensatory Time Off - Exempt Staff

SECTION 7 - STAFF BENEFITS
HR-701 Health Plan
HR-702 COBRA
HR-703 Voluntary Life Insurance
HR-704 Travel Accident Insurance
HR-705 Long Term Disability Insurance
HR-706 Worker's Compensation Insurance
HR-707 Tax-Sheltered Savings Account
HR-708 Social Security
HR-709 Unemployment Insurance
HR-710 Tuition Support Program

SECTION 8 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
HR-801 Alcohol, Drugs and Controlled Substances
HR-802 Medical Examinations
HR-803 Safety Inspections

SECTION 9 - LEAVING THE COMPANY
HR-901 Leaving the Company
HR-902 Reference Checks

SECTION 10 - OTHER POLICIES
HR-1001 Personnel Records
HR-1002 Committees
HR-1003 Relocation
HR-1004 Flowers
HR-1005 Professional Memberships
HR-1006 Hot Line to the Managing Director
HR-1007 Stationery and Business Cards
HR-1008 Training and Development
HR-1009 Political and Religious Activity

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