Medical Handbook provides safety to employers against legal harassments

Sometimes Employment policies can be real traumatic for an employer. As organizations are growing the structured set of rules and guidelines addressing everyday issues are also changing. An employee medical handbook can explain every consequence of employee policies in a workplace and thus, provides legal protection to you.

Be it a HR strategy or management step, medical handbook is necessary to protect your organization from complex lawsuits, reduce training costs and can reduce employee turnover.

Need for handbook

Employment law in Arizona is full of dramatic consequences, both for employee and employers. There are critical stages of hiring and firing that makes employment policies and contracts quite challenging. It could be illegal discrimination or illegal termination in violation of a public policy as well as critical pre-employment conditions.

All such stringent employment relationships must be written in a contract and must be set firth in the employee handbook. Such manual should be distributed among employees even before joining the organizations.

Advantages of handbook for employers:

1. A medical handbook (CEDR) provides a centralized, complete and certain record of the employer's policies and procedures. Through it employers can clearly explain the workplace policies and restriction. In case, any employee is not abiding by company rules and charge you for employment discrimination in the court, you can avail valuable legal protection.

2. Work place safety is another concern where most of the employees claim against employer. Federal and state laws require provision of employment condition where cause of death or serious physical harm to employees need to be furnished. Employee Medical handbook can provide safety and healthy protection formula for employees and thus prevent false allegation against employers.

3. Medical handbook denotes fixed monetary schemes for employees injured or killed in work related accidents. There are different worker’s compensation and family disability benefits for each case. With handbook employers can be protected by putting limits on employee recovery amount.

4. Moreover, employer may do modifications on medical handbook with employee consent and after sending them notices for changes. According to employment law employer’s duties and responsibilities under employee handbook can be critical depending on circumstances. A licensed attorney should be visited to review such cases.

Here are the details you can put into your medical handbook and remain in safer side.

You can

• Set normal working hours for full-time employees, rules for part-time employees, and state how overtime compensation will be allowed.

• Define pays and salaries to avoid further obligations

• State organizational policy regarding drug and alcohol abuse in an out of the work place

• Assure employee safety again sexual harassment


Thus, employers can gracefully avoid major legal complications while running a business unit.