{"id":251,"date":"2010-04-26T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dev.atiqbd.com\/is-standard-legals-employee-manual-up-to-date-for-my-state\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:06:46","slug":"is-standard-legals-employee-manual-up-to-date-for-my-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standardlegal.com\/blog\/is-standard-legals-employee-manual-up-to-date-for-my-state","title":{"rendered":"Is Standard Legal&#8217;s Employee Manual Up-To-Date for My State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Legal&#8217;s Employee Manual is current, up-to-date, and legal and valid in all states. It covers the most common or prevalent rules, regulations and policies that all employers should address with their employees.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not prepared for any specific state &#8212; and with good reason.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Employee Manual is a guide to be given to employees to provide workplace rules, regulations and guidelines. The Manual is NOT created to be a codified listing of all federal and state requirements that employers must meet &#8211; nor should an Employee Manual be prepared for that purpose.\u00a0 It is our belief that most employees would have little use for a listing of state\/federal regulations geared toward the employer, nor would they understand many of the requirements faced by the employer.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Legal only provides content in its Employee Manual that is relevant to employer-to-employee and employee-to-employee relationships. To provide other off-topic information could create confusion for the employee and, in addition, unnecessarily lengthen the Employee Manual to the extent that it is unreadable.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information concerning the federal rules and regulations required of employers is available from the <a title=\"US Department of Labor\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/dol\/siteindex.htm\">United States Department of Labor<\/a>, the federal agency that oversees most employment related matters.<\/p>\n<p>See complete details on <a title=\"Standard Legal's Employee Manual legal forms software\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.standardlegal.com\/product\/employee-manual-legal-forms-software\/\">Standard Legal&#8217;s Employee Manual legal document software<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard Legal&#8217;s Employee Manual is current, up-to-date, and legal and valid in all states. 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