Creating Employee Handbooks that Protect You and Support the Company’s Culture

Most employee handbooks are outdated, overly legal, and rarely read. But a strong handbook does more than ensure compliance — it also reinforces company culture.

Your handbook is a critical risk management tool, setting behavior expectations, outlining procedures, and protecting the organization. It can also communicate your mission, values, and workplace standards in a way employees actually engage with.

In this fast-paced session, attorney and author Don Phin reviews key handbook compliance requirements, including 2026 updates across federal, state, and local laws. Then he focuses on opportunity — how to create a handbook that strengthens culture, improves communication, and reflects who you are as an organization.

You’ll also learn how visuals, multimedia, and digital delivery can make your handbook more accessible, useful, and impactful.

We’ll Discuss

• Quick history into the evolution of employee handbooks
• Don’t put your disclaimers before your welcome letter
• At-will and other disclaimers
• Hiring and orientation
• Wage and hour
• Performance management and discipline
• Communication policies
• Benefits
• Leave Management
• Discrimination and Harassment
• Safety
• Bringing your employee handbook to life

Take-Away Value

• You’ll know what must be in your handbook for 2026.
• You’ll know what can be in your handbook.
• You’ll be able to create an employee handbook that people want to read.
• You’ll learn how to use video and other tools to bring your handbook to life.
• And so much more!

All attendees receive the Creating an Employee Handbook report.

Speaker(s)

Don Phin, Esq.

Don Phin is a California employment law attorney. Since leaving his litigation practice more than twenty years ago, he has consulted with hundreds of companies to help improve their employment practices. He has presented in person over 600 times to CEOs, HR, and other executives on what works in leadership and employee relations. Don has written numerous books and built HRThatWorks, an online HR compliance and strategy program, used by 3,500 companies and sold to ThinkHR in 2014. In addition to consulting and speaking, Don does executive coaching, expert testimony, and workplace investigations. Streetwise from the Bronx (you can still hear the accent), Don moved to San Diego when he was 20 to work on a tuna boat and never came back. Today Don lives in sunny Coronado, California.

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