Alberta Employee Handbook Features & Benefits

Pre-written content that eliminates 'blank page syndrome'

• Quickly & easily edit, add & delete topics with one click. User-friendly and easy to customize
• Organized in a way that makes sense to your staff
• Uses the same format for every topic/policy so readers get accustomed to the flow of your handbook and know what to expect. 

Professional formatting improves usability and makes you look like a pro!

• Uses only Microsoft Word. No new software to learn
• Professional, consistent formatting applied from a custom suite of pre-defined styles
• Update logos, fonts and colours to match your company brand with a couple of clicks
• Clear, hierarchical header structure makes the handbook or manual easy to scan and read
• Automatic table of contents updates with a mouse click
• 'Click and replace' placeholder fields make it easy to insert company-specific information in the right places
• Highlighted keywords let you replace placeholder terms with your company-specific terms throughout the handbook with the click of a mouse

Everyday English makes it easy to read

• Written in plain language (except where legalese is required)
• Uses a modern and business-casual tone for today's workforce
• Consistent language & voice throughout.

Professional expertise puts your mind at ease

• Created by experienced HR professionals and consultants
• Reviewed by employment lawyers
• Written & edited by experienced, professional writers 

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Created by professional instructional designers, each step is intuitive and easy-to-follow. 

We've got it down to a science - no experimenting for you!

We've helped create literally thousands of employee handbooks, and poured all that experience into step-by-step, online instructions

QuickStart Employee Handbook

Fast-track your essential employee handbook with step-by-step instructions. 

HR Manual Plus

Implement a comprehensive HR Manual that instantly creates your orientation program for your province in 5 easy stages

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Comprehensive Help for every topic - make informed choices 

• Help pages provided for every topic in the employee handbook or HR manual
• Describes the purpose, benefits, risks, key points and more on each topic — no guessing on what's important and what's not
• Includes cautions, tips and legislative links where applicable
• See Topic Help example for Ontario vacation policy
• See Topic Help example for BC Health & Safety policy

Understand legal requirements & get updates

• Understand the legislative bodies that govern employment law in your province
• Learn which topics need legal review, which don't, and why
• Understand connections between your employee handbook/HR manual, employment contracts and employment law
• Get legal updates and accompanying changes for your documents

Acknowledgement Form

• Includes a Canadian Employee Handbook/Manual Acknowledgement Form, an agreement signed by your staff
• Acknowledges they've read and will adhere to a specific section of your Employee Handbook or HR Manual that protects your company and staff
• Comes with accompanying instructions for HR staff explaining how to use the form when making offers or asking employees to re-sign the acknowledgement form during their employment

Style Guide

• Your employee handbook and HR manual templates start out beautifully formatted and professional looking, but after multiple people have been in it reviewing, editing and making comments, it's going to be messy
• We provide a reference style guide so you can easily re-apply the right styles in the right places, and keep your handbook looking as beautiful and professional as it did at the start

Project Plan & Checklist

(Optional for QuickStart Employee Handbook)

• Helps you map out each step and communicate with others involved
• Pre-populated checklist to make sure you don't forget key steps

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Everything in one place

• Everything Staff need to know is in one document that's easy to search, not spread out in endless policy documents. Easier for them to use and you to maintain 
• Microsoft Word features like the Navigation Pane and automated table of contents  make it easy to scan and navigate through topics by heading 

Easy & binding sign off by employees and non-employees

• If you've never had an employee handbook or manual, you'll ask your Staff to sign the Employee Handbook Acknowledgement Form when you first launch your handbook.  By doing so, you're essentially changing their employment contracts. We show you how to deal with that in the kit. 
• Policies that protect your staff and company's rights are grouped into one section called 'Staff Policies'. 
• Your company and staff sign off and agree to adhere to the policies outlined in just this one section, which acts as a binding addendum to employment contracts. Why is this important? 
• Handbook or Manual clearly states who each policy applies to, so you can differentiate between employees and contractors

Simple maintenance of formal terms & definitions 

• Your employee handbook and HR manual formal terms and their definitions are listed in one place. We suggest using a Formal Terms & Definitions web page that your handbook links to, but can easily be listed in other ways to suit your preference. 
• Eliminates repeating and maintaining definitions in multiple locations in the document.
• Promotes ease of maintenance, consistency, readability, and clarity.  

Gender-neutral

Written without the use of he, she, her, his, etc., without sounding forced.

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