Employment Policies and Procedures

The foundation of any productive workplace environment is clear and practical policies that set standards for behavior and establish mutual expectations. We stress the continual development and implementation of legally compliant policies and practical procedures that address simple and complex employment-related issues. Our policy and procedure development team will take the time to understand your business needs as well as appropriate industry best practices that can be incorporated into your practices. The result is tailored policies that not only comply with the law, but also support your company's vision and culture.

Vantage Solutions creates a range of materials to clearly and concisely communicate to applicants and employees the best your workplace has to offer, such as:

• Recruiting Materials
  • Recruitment advertising — ensuring your sourcing is both effective and legal
  • Web-based recruiting — understanding how web recruiting impacts record keeping and other EEO requirements
  • Application Form — helping you construct an application that provides useful information without crossing any legal boundaries
  • Interviewing — understanding appropriate and inappropriate interviewing techniques
  • Applicant Testing — understanding the legalities of personality and other background tests
  • Reference Checking — how to obtain useful information to make the best hiring decisions
  • FCRA — ensuring your interviewing complies with the law
• Hiring Materials
  • Offer Letters — constructing offer letters that entice but are not legally binding
  • Employment Contracts — constructing contracts that protect your company's interests
• Employee Handbooks
  • Contractual obligations — ensuring your Employee Handbook comports with the current law regarding employment at will and contains important items such as an e-mail policy, harassment policy, workplace violence policy, and anti-discrimination policy
  • Legal Provisions — ensuring your Employee Handbook contains required information, such as employee rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act
  • Temporary Employees and Independent Contractors — creating communications for those who work on-site for your benefit without bestowing employee rights and benefits
• Supervisory Manuals
  • Vantage Solutions helps you create standardized procedures to give supervisors the tools necessary to effectively implement your Employee Handbook and other policies and procedures
• Job Descriptions
  • Vantage Solutions helps you create job descriptions that clearly communicate essential and non-essential work functions for each job in your workplace

Our integrated approach means that, after policy development, Vantage Solutions conducts training for appropriate management and senior staff on successful implementation and standardization of your policies and procedures.

Finally, our ongoing advice and counsel supports your managers and human resource professionals in consistent, non-discriminatory application of your policies and procedures.