As I was driving to work this morning, I saw an advertisement for electronic cigarettes and I started to wonder if existing policies concerning tobacco use on employer’s property would cover such a thing?
This raises a common theme about which we employment attorneys are always cautioning our clients, that periodically, administration/management needs to look at existing policies or handbooks to make sure they continue to be up to date. In all the business that surrounds running a business, you cannot simply create a handbook and forget about it for years.
Here are a couple of things you can do to keep your policies current:
- Read your policies and communicate them with your employees.
- Periodically review your policies and identify any need for updates. Ideally, this should happen every year, but at a minimum, review at least within 2-3 years.
- Laws change frequently. Contact your legal counsel or one of the employment attorneys at KingSpry to ensure your policies are still legally-compliant.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Employment Log (EPELog) is a publication of the KingSpry Employment Law Practice Group. Jeffrey T. Tucker, Esquire, is our editor-in-chief. EPELog is meant to be informational and does not constitute legal advice.
