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5 Critical Questions To Ask
Before Selecting a Policy Manual or Handbook Resource
Your career success
is too important to cut corners with some unknown, or stripped-down, HR
policy or handbook template. You need to answer these questions FIRST:
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Who stands behind
the product and how long have they been in business?
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Do they know
anything about HR handbooks and policy writing?
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Do they have
policy experts write, and employment attorneys review, the material?
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Are they easy to
get hold of? Street address, telephone, and fax?
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Do they stand
behind their product or service with a money-back guarantee?
The Internet can be a
great tool for finding solutions, but you have to be careful. You know the
feeling you get when the only contact information a website shows is an
email address. Or, when the site only gives you some flowery sales pitch
without any background information or track record. Or, when there’s no
guarantee to be found anywhere.
Your career success demands more. Make sure you get clear-cut quality you
don’t have to worry about, service you can depend on, and credibility to
silence the harshest critic. The pressure on you to have first-class
policies and avoid legal exposure is too great!
Personnel Policy Service, Inc., the publisher of the Personnel Policy
Manual System + HR Matters Tools and Resource Center, wants you to have all
the information you need to make an intelligent and confident decision. So,
here are:
Our 5 Critical Answers
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Background: As our name implies, we specialize in HR policy
research, development, and legal documentation – and we have been doing so
since 1972. We have a narrow focus and don’t try to be all things to the
HR profession. You deal with a family-owned business now proudly into its
second generation.
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Expertise:
You benefit from literally millions of dollars we’ve spent just on HR
policy research, writing, and legal documentation. Our primary focus is,
and has been, providing complete policy and compliance solutions. Our
flagship publication is the Personnel Policy Manual System, which many of
our subscribers refer to as the “HR Policy Bible.”
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Legal Review:
We not only have trained employment lawyers on staff but also retain the
highly respected Chicago-based law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman &
Kammholz as our legal editor. This way, you can have the peace-of-mind
that comes from double legal coverage.
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Contact: You
don’t have to hire a private investigator to find us. Our street address
is 159 St. Matthews Avenue, Suite 5, Louisville, KY 40207; our telephone
is 1-800-437-3735; and our fax is 1-800-755-7011. We even have a “live”
person answer the phone 9-5 Eastern Time on weekdays.
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Guarantee:
If for any reason, or even for no reason (like in “employment-at-will”
language) you want your money back, we will promptly refund it. Our policy
is clear and unambiguous: You take no risk when dealing with us!
Bottom Line:
We know that if we were in your shoes we would want the answers to the above
questions before we making an important decision. So, if you would like
additional information, please don’t hesitate to call us at 1-800-437-3735
(9-5 Eastern Time) or email us at info@ppspublishers.com.
About
Personnel Policy Service, Inc. and Our Mission
Since 1972, Personnel
Policy Service, Inc. has focused on serving the growing needs of employers
for practical HR policy and compliance solutions. We understand the many
daily responsibilities and time pressures that HR professionals and business
owners have.
Our goal and mission is very simple: “To give you the writing tools, HR best
practices, and legal documentation you need, plus the confidence you want
and deserve in knowing that the material has been carefully drafted and
legally researched.” We focus on doing the hard research and writing work
for you so that all you have to do is adapt it to your specific needs.
Over the years, we have developed extensive databases of HR policies, best
practices, and legal explanations that serve as the core for our specialized
policy and compliance publications. Many of our subscribers refer to our
flagship service, the Personnel Policy Manual System, as the
“HR Policy Bible.”
Nationwide, thousands of HR professionals, business owners, consultants, and
lawyers rely on the "HR Bible" for quick answers, thorough and updated research,
and ready-to-use models.
Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Personnel Policy Service, Inc., was
founded by Jay and Leslie Norman. It is now moving into its second
generation as the Normans' two daughters and a dedicated staff of editors,
marketers, and customer service experts work to carry out our mission.
We pride ourselves on being small enough to maintain a "family" tradition of
high quality and personalized service, but large enough to provide in-depth
analysis and cutting-edge solutions for your toughest HR policy and
compliance problems.
Learn What Goes Into The Material You Receive
Each day, our
in-house editorial staff researches and analyzes all the new HR trends and
important court cases, regulations, and legislation. We also talk regularly
to HR professionals, consultants, and employment law attorneys and monitor
new developments to make sure you have the most accurate and up-to-date HR
information. To fulfill this mission:
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We review
daily employment law reports, multi-volume treatises on HR and employment
law, employment law newsletters, full-text versions of legislation, court
cases, and proposed and final regulations, HR professional journals,
on-line subscription publications, and national and local newspapers.
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We monitor
the activities of more than 14 federal government agencies that regulate
employers, including: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department
of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Employment
Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, Internal Revenue
Service, Department of Justice, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control,
Social Security Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Environmental
Protection Agency, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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We review and
analyze new court cases from the Supreme Court, the thirteen Circuit
Courts of Appeal, and the federal district courts in all fifty states and
the District of Columbia, as well as major decisions from state courts.
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We track
legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate concerning
employers, such as wage and hour reform, employment discrimination, COBRA
reform, OSHA reform, managed care reform, minimum wage increases, family
and medical leave expansion, paycheck protection, educational
reimbursements, compensatory time off, religious accommodation, sexual
orientation discrimination, employer-employee participation committees,
leave for school activities, plus many more HR topics.
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We track
state legislation for all 50 states and the District of Columbia that
affects our subscribers, including laws concerning reference checking,
minimum wage and overtime, smokers’ rights, sexual harassment training,
school leave, family and medical leave, genetic testing, affirmative
action, paycheck protection, sexual orientation discrimination, new hire
reporting, deductions from wages, payment at termination, plus many more
HR topics.
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We research
the Internet to find helpful web sites, resources, and survey information
to share with you. We examine HR topics and trends using hundreds of
organizations’ web sites, including the Department of Labor, the
Department of Justice, the Library of Congress, the House of
Representatives, the Senate, the National Institutes of Occupational
Safety and Health, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Society for Human
Resource Management, the American Society of Training and Development, the
Employment Policy Foundation, New Ways to Work, Catalyst, the American Bar
Association, the American Management Association, Hewitt Associates,
Abbott Langer and Associates, William M. Mercer Corporation, the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the California Chamber of Commerce, and many more.
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We attend professional seminars and conferences covering HR
topics and employment law and have memberships in the Society for Human
Resource Management (SHRM) and the Louisville Society for Human Resource
Management (LSHRM).
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