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    Employee Handbooks 2022: Compliance Updates and Best Practices

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    An employee handbook is a powerful tool for organizations across all industries. With a strong company handbook, a workplace will be prepared to handle 2022’s challenges. In this eBook, MP’s HR services experts outline best practices for constructing and updating an employee handbook. They also share how to write policies for a compliant, engaged, and more productive remote (or hybrid) workforce. Download the eBook to:
    • Learn how to utilize your employee handbook to develop a robust company culture
    • Find out how to maintain compliance in every state where remote workers live
    • Get proven strategies for boosting the productivity and organizational alignment of a remote team
    • Uncover the worst employee handbook mistakes—and how to avoid them

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    5 Essential 2022 Employee Handbook Updates

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    While employee handbook updates are critical every year to ensure compliance and reduce legal risk, this year, they’re more urgent than ever. Employers need to ensure they’re up to date with the many federal and state level changes that were passed in 2021. Many states are passing legislation surrounding legalized marijuana, protected classes, and COVID-related considerations that will dramatically affect HR compliance regulations. Some employers may want to update the employee policies directly in their employee manuals. For other workplaces, location-based addendums or COVID addendums will be a better strategy. MP’s HR and compliance experts have assisted hundreds of clients in developing employee handbooks and have outlined the five employee policies workplaces must update for 2021. Read the article to:
    • Find out the key elements of a comprehensive COVID safety policy
    • Develop a remote work policy that protects the company and improves worker efficiency
    • Discover how to update leave policies for COVID, FMLA, and paid family medical leave laws
    • Learn why drug abuse policies may be creating legal risk for employers
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    HR Compliance Checklist: 6 Considerations for Hiring Remote Workers

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    More organizations than ever have employees working remotely. Employers have been supervising remote employees since 2020. However, they may be unfamiliar with best practices for ensuring HR and compliance during the recruiting and hiring process. MP’s HR compliance experts share a checklist for maintaining HR compliance while hiring remote workers. Download the checklist to:

    • Find out tips for tailoring job applications for compliance in any state
    • Discover how to complete I-9 forms
    • Learn when to perform background and credit checks
    • Uncover best practices for employee policies surrounding marijuana usage

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    Employee Handbook Update: 7 Keys to a Comprehensive Telework Policy

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    Due to the surge of COVID cases and the COVID vaccine mandates (which are likely to only apply to in-person employees), many employers are considering keeping their staff remote or returning them to remote work. The key to successfully supervising remote workers is to develop a comprehensive telework policy to the employee handbook. MP’s HR services team shares why remote work employee policies are critical to an organization’s success and HR compliance. This article also outlines guidelines for writing optimized telework policies for any staff handbook. Read the article to:
    • Find out the critical elements of a telework policy
    • Determine if a telework policy is necessary for the employee handbook
    • Uncover how to write a telework policy that protects employers
    • Learn why telework policies can improve employee performance and reduce errors, miscommunications, and missed meetings and deadlines

    Managing Remote Workers in 2022: HR Compliance Employers Must Know

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    Since 2020, more organizations than ever are managing employees working remotely. While offering remote work options may improve employee engagement and attract top talent, it also increases employers’ legal exposure and creates payroll, tax, and HR compliance risks. When employees work remotely in a new state, they trigger a new “work location.” This work location will be subject to HR and compliance laws in its state and city. Even if employees move without telling their employers, the organization is still responsible for payroll taxes and compliance with the HR state and city laws in the employee’s work location. This eBook will assist employers in re-evaluating how they hire, pay, and manage their remote workers.

    • Get proven strategies for maintaining payroll compliance, even with employees in multiple states
    • Find out how to reduce legal exposure when hiring remote employees
    • Learn what employers must obtain from their workers’ compensation insurance when managing remote employees
    • Discover why remote employees may need more or different training than employees working in the company office

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    5 State-Specific HR Compliance Considerations for Remote Workers

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    Employers with fully remote or hybrid remote work environments should be prepared for additional HR risk and compliance concerns, particularly if they have employees in different states. When employees work remotely in a new state, they create a new “work location.” This work location will be subject to HR and compliance laws in the state and city it’s located. Employers may work with HR compliance providers, such as MP, to conduct an HR compliance audit and ensure they’re in HR compliance in all required states. Read the article to:
    • Learn five essential areas a workplace must be in compliance with at every work location
    • Find out best practices for sharing notices and employment posters with remote employees
    • Get the best tools for delivering state-mandated training
    • Outline strategies to reduce legal exposure in every state where an employer has remote workers
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