Employee Policies & Procedures

Employee Policies & Procedures

Before you hire your first employee, you should have thought through and documented all of the terms and conditions involved in working with you, and in the states you operate in.  With differing numbers of employees you have certain obligations regulated by the state.  Most importantly, you must get them to do what you need done as efficiently (with the least cost) as possible.  Happy employees have the best potential to generate profits for your enterprise.  Surprises about your rules and working methods do not usually lead to happy employees.

Commerce International will help you develop a handbook of workplace terms and conditions that meets your business needs, while ensuring compliance with state and federal employment regulations.  Further, we can help write position descriptions with measurable components and estimate time needed to accomplish these positions after the learning curve, leading to minimization of labor cost.

It starts with knowing what you need and how much of it.  Should you hire or outsource?  Having a position description for each person you hire and knowing how long it should take (in the real world) to do each task will help you find the person(s) you need and what skills they need to bring to the table.  You may think “wow, the kitchen is never getting cleaned up!”  Do you hire a maintenance manager, or add that task to an admin who has time on his or her hands?  Maybe you feel that accounting is not giving you the information you need o a timely basis, but do you hire a Controller, or would an Accounts Receivable clerk give a talented Full Charge Bookkeeper the time they need to crank out financials in real time?

After ensuring everyone knows their role in the company and has the skills to perform it, the next thing is ensuring your wages and benefits are attractive to the people you need now and in the future.  We can look at compensation rates on different levels and help adjust your policies to stay within budget but get the most high performing people on your team.

Finally, if there is a clunker in your group, there is a right way and a wrong way to remedy the situation.  After decades of management experience, we can help make it as quick and painless as possible.

We can also write ads and screen candidates, so that you can spend the least possible time hiring the best people to help in your venture.