Workforce Management > Human Resources Law and Policies

Get started on the right foot in human resources procedures using this list of relevant laws and theories.

Businesses need to borrow money from or lend money to an individual or another business entity. It is a smart practice to document the loan with a written promise called a promissory note. The attached sample promissory is quite general in nature and provides a glimpse of such notes.

This form will help you assign and allocate human resources for different aspects of your construction project.

This guide is designed to provide the project manager with guidance for basing certain workforce planning and communication tasks on corporate personal unpaid leave policy. A major focus is to reduce the risk of lawsuits connected to discrimination, while enabling the policy to assist employees in establishing a work/life balance.

Keep an eye on your project's bottom line by requesting and tracking your human resources carefully for budget and project control purposes.

The Internet is a powerful business tool that provides lots of useful information. Unfortunately, it is also a distraction from productive work time. Here's a sample Internet and e-mail usage policy to help you address this problem.

It's always a good policy to review your policies, and the IT policy is no exception. How does your IT policy measure up? Is it doing what it's supposed to do?

Here's a sample Internal and e-mail usage policy that restricts personal use of the Internet to non-working hours. Make it your own.

Before you ask away, make sure your interview questions are completely in line with the law.

Having a virus protection policy and guidelines in place is the first step toward protecting your company's computers and data networks against viruses and other destructive programs.

If you're having trouble with your team, this might be a good time to check in on their motivation and take some positive action. Here's a plan to get everyone back on the right track.

Use this Excel spreadsheet to plan and keep track of your project's human resources (i.e., your project and development teams) across the life of a project. Compare resource-level estimates that you make throughout the project to better understand where you were "off" and how to make better predictions going forward.

How does your company deal with sexual harassment issues? If you don't know, then you need to think about establishing a policy--the sooner the better.

Have you implemented a policy requiring all of your employees to report to work completely free from the presence or effects of drugs or alcohol?

Temporary employees or contractors rarely get as full an orientation as full-time workers. Are they less likely to deviate from policy? Unlikely. Make sure they review the entire policy library with this handy guide.

The project proposal converts an idea or policy into the details of a potential project, including the outcomes, outputs, major risks, costs, stakeholders and an estimate of the resourcing and time required.

Before you get accused of unfairly promoting from within, have a policy in place that clearly states how these promotions are handled.

Managers should use these tips to help keep your company's EEO policy up and running smoothly.

This template is designed to assist the project manager with establishing a compressed workweek policy. Such a policy may be used to enable the workforce to improve a work/life balance, thus improving retention and reducing turnover. Certain operational needs may require longer daily shifts.

How do you officially "borrow" the team members you need for your project if they belong to another project or department? Here's a formal contract for procuring their time.

Do you have a policy in place to protect your company's computers and data networks against viruses and other destructive programs? If you don't, it's never too late to put one together. Use this document as a template. If you do have a security policy in place, you can use this document as a framework to get that policy out on your corporate intranet so everyone can practice safe computing.

Nobody means to discriminate, but are you sure that your policies are in line with legal definitions of discrimination? Take this quick quiz and find out.

Don't panic. Help with your company's EEO policy statement is just a click away.

What is your company's criminal history policy? Do you even have one? Stay safe using this sample.

This template is designed to assist the project manager to attain higher workforce performance by reducing problems associated with inadequate or unconstructive responses to conflict in the workplace.

This guide is designed to provide the project manager with guidance for basing certain workforce planning and communication tasks on corporate vacation policy.

Keep a lid on contractor costs by formalizing the process of “casual” or “temporary” position requisitions.

Sooner or later, your company will have work with consultants and professional services providers. This sample contract can give you guidelines about the kinds of matters you must make legal provision for when outsourcing work to people and companies outside your corporation. To avoid nasty legal misunderstandings, however, we advise you to have your own legal department or lawyer review this or any contract you make between your company and an outside service provider or consultant. (Our lawyers made us say that!)

Get help defining the policies and practices governing the life cycle management of records within your corporation using this detailed sample policy.