California Employee Handbook Creator Online Tool - MASTEH
Maintaining a California handbook that complies with state and federal laws helps protect your business and employees. Think of it as a user manual for the workplace.
CalChamber's Employee Handbook Creator online tool guides you through every step of what is usually a complicated HR task.
- Our user-friendly interface and simplified navigation makes handbook creation an intuitive process.
- Our support materials — such as our How-To Guide, FAQs and HR Glossary — aid you in crafting comprehensive and compliant employee handbooks.
- A comprehensive Wizard-planning guide helps you prepare to answer the Wizard's questions effectively.
The Employee Handbook Creator tool is accessible on any Windows- or Mac-based laptop, desktop or tablet.
Access more than 100 policies, including those that are mandatory, suggested or optional for your company — such as the mandatory paid sick leave policies required by local ordinances or California's mandatory harassment, discrimination and retaliation prevention policy. Clearly communicate company policies and set expectations in an employee handbook that you create online, export and save to a secure location on your computer, and then print from your own printer and/or distribute electronically.
Your yearly subscription of $104.99 (English or Spanish) helps keep your handbook policies up to date; it means you'll continue to receive new and revised policy updates resulting from changes to California and federal employment laws or regulations (See Compliance Alert below).
You not only receive email notifications on policy updates throughout your subscription year, but the Employee Handbook Creator makes it simple to revise your handbook online.
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"Don’t hesitate to start from scratch. Employee Handbook Creator is easy to use, with precise wording that’s so important these days."
Kat Lotz, CFO Jewel Box Platinum, Inc.
2024 COMPLIANCE ALERTS
It's always a best practice to keep your policies up to date with California employment laws.
Upcoming Policy Update: 8/15/2024
The much-needed Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) reform signed into law July 1 aims to reduce employers' exposure, risk and damages related to wage and hour violations while reducing potential penalties attached to such claims, by, among other things, allowing employers to take reasonable steps toward wage and hour compliance — and one such reasonable step is disseminating lawful written policies.
To assist employers in this endeavor, the Employee Handbook Creator tool will include the following new and revised policies on wage and hour issues in this August update:
- Wage and Hour Training (new policy).
- Final Pay (new policy).
- On Call/Standby (new policy).
- Split Shift (new policy).
- Confirmation of Receipt of Wage and Hour Policies (new policy).
- Pay Differentials.
- Reporting Time Pay.
- Makeup Time.
- Meal and Rest Periods.
- Overtime for Nonexempt Employees.
- Pay for Mandatory Meetings/Training.
- Timekeeping and Off-the-Clock Work.
- Lactation Accommodation.
- Expense reimbursement.
- Payment of wages.
- Sick Leave.
- Personnel and Payroll Records.
Also available to help employers comply with wage and hour requirements is our PAGA Wage & Hour Compliance Toolkit, which includes additional resources and is offered to CalChamber members at a discounted rate.
Previous 2024 Policy Updates
On June 27, 2024, to align with California’s new workplace violence prevention requirements that apply to nearly all California employers effective July 1, 2024, with some narrow exceptions, two updates were made:
- The Workplace Violence Policy was renamed the Workplace Violence Prevention Policy and updated to fit within the framework of the new California law, including incorporating references to the employer's workplace violence prevention plan and related procedures required by the law. (Please note that adopting a workplace violence prevention policy does not satisfy California's requirement to have a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan; rather, the policy reinforces an employer's commitment to the law and serves as one piece of the overall workplace violence prevention strategy.)
- Given the nature of the Workplace Violence Prevention Policy updates, along with California's new workplace violence prevention requirements, the existing Security Policy became redundant and potentially confusing. As such, it was removed from the Employee Handbook Creator.
On June 18, 2024, the Pregnancy Disability Leave policy was updated to not only address new federal regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), but also include an anti-retaliation provision, as well as language communicating the employers’ intent to engage in the interactive process when receiving accommodation requests.
On January 1, 2024, the following policies were added or updated based on new laws for 2024:
- Reproductive Loss Leave (new policy).
- Harassment, Discrimination and Retaliation.
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
- Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Sick Leave.
- Berkeley Sick Leave.
- Emeryville Sick Leave.
- Los Angeles Sick Leave.
- Oakland Sick Leave.
- San Diego Sick Leave.
- San Francisco Sick Leave.
- Santa Monica Sick Leave.
Current Subscribers: Please sign in to the Employee Handbook Creator to review the changes. If this update applies to you, we highly recommend that you update your handbook with these changes at your earliest opportunity.