The document discusses several human resource and employee welfare policies that companies should consider including in an employee handbook, such as policies around attendance, sick leave, drugs and alcohol, sexual harassment, and workplace violence. It provides examples of different approaches companies take to addressing issues like AIDS/HIV in the workplace and monitoring employee health. It also notes that policies should be guidelines and keeping them simple is best.

1. Chapter 11 Employee Welfare, Health and Safety

4. What’s the meaning of Welfare provision ? Welfare provision generally refers to those policies which are directed at some aspect of employee well being both in a physical and emotional sense.

5. Why should organizations have a welfare policy ? For saving costs by reducing absence and improving the performance of employees in the workplace by addressing any problem or concerns that they might have .

7. Employee Blogging

8. Let’s work together and form a policy for the employee handbook regarding blogging

9. Harvard Law School's policy reads exactly how you'd expect Harvard Law School's to read. It actually starts off with an apology "We don’t mean to turn you off from blogging by immediately inundating you with legalese, but we need to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service." By posting your Content using the Services, you are granting Harvard a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work. How can you accomplish this without so many words?

10. With this two-word corporate blogging policy: "Be professional"

17. What should our policy be regarding attendance and absences?

32. What’s our policy regarding drugs and alcohol?

43. What’s our policy regarding scheduling?

45. Do we have a policy about work place violence?

46. Check-out these websites: www.safetyworld.com www.worksafebc.com www.ossa.com www.osha.gov

47. What policies in your typical handbook can't be distilled into the two words "respect others"?

48. Policies about harassment and discrimination and office romance are all about respecting coworkers.

49. Policies about trade secrets and computer usage and even attendance are all about respecting the company.

50. Policies about dealing with customers or answering the phone or about handling complaints are about respecting the customers.

51. Even policies about drugs and alcohol are all about respecting yourself.

52. Let’s take a break and return for a discussion