Keeping Employment Matters Under Control 

Businesses across the country are dealing with staffing issues during these unprecedented times. As a business owner, having proper documentation can prevent many different issues with staff. Providing your staff with clear job descriptions, goals, employment conditions, reviews, handbooks, and other employment materials helps them understand their responsibilities. Ultimately, proper documentation helps grow your business. 

Furthermore, having things in order and properly documented can make transitions easier and help you avoid lawsuits down the road. Business owners and partners often find that having an outsourced general counsel can help address these issues and head off many potential problems.

Setting Your Staff Up for Success 

Helping your employees thrive can start with how you onboard new hires. While there is a temptation to get new team members contributing to your bottom line as quickly as possible, there are long-term advantages to properly acclimating them to your company culture and vision as well as their individual goals and responsibilities first. 

Employees do better work and make the company more money when they understand their role, feel valued by the company, and are properly incentivized. Documents that each company should prepare to help new employees include clear written job descriptions, a copy of the company’s vision statement, and a copy of the team member’s goals.

There is a variety of other documentation that every company should have in place to help avoid any future lawsuits, including breach of contract and EEOC claims with departing employees. They can also help avoid conflict between current team members. These Documents that specifically cover team member issues include model offer letters, packages of new hire forms, incentive pay documentation, team member review forms, and template severance agreements. There are also documents that can be prepared to cover organizational-wide issues, such as training manuals and videos and crisis management plans. Investment in the preparation of these materials can protect your company both financially and legally in the future.

Contact Our DuPage County Small Business Attorney

As you look for ways to address these issues and keep employment matters under control, you can work with a lawyer who can serve as an outsourced general counsel. If you are a small or mid-sized company that is looking for legal assistance but you do not want to take on the cost of having a lawyer on staff, an outsourced general counsel may be your solution. At Gierach Law Firm, our YourOGC program will give your company the legal help it needs and prepare you for future challenges, all while saving you money. Contact a Naperville general counsel lawyer at 630-228-9413 today.

Sources:

Entrepreneur

Human Resources MBA