Avoid Costly Mistakes by Updating
Your Company's Employee Handbook
The start of a new year is a perfect time to take inventory of your employee documentation. This is the time to determine if any internal operations changed over the past year.
Are you implementing new policies or procedures?
Have you kept your employees informed?
Employee handbooks are invaluable for building consistency for your brand and operations. Depending on how they are written, they may also protect an employer against employee lawsuits. They can be a very strategic risk management tool. Small enterprises earning $1 million spend approximately $20,000 annually on employee lawsuits, while Fortune 500 companies spend an estimated amount of $2 billion in settlements alone.
When updating your employee handbook, it is important to understand that any employee who works in the United Sates or its territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands is a covered employee and protected by The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission laws, regardless of their citizenship, language of choice, or work authorization status. All employees who work in the United States or its territories are protected whether they work for an American company or foreign employer.
To fully utilize the benefit of employee handbooks as a risk management tool, all employee documentation needs to be written in the language in which your employees read. This means that if you have non-English speaking employees, translation services will be required.
Because every company has diverse needs, it’s difficult to estimate your return-on-investment for this initiative. Therefore, it is important to request a complimentary consultation from a AAA Translation, a qualified language service provider. They will convert your communications from one language to another while translating the context so they can be inclusive of your employees in the most cost-effective way possible.
For more information visit www.AAATranslation.com or call +1 636 530 1010.
