Frequently Asked Questions

No state requires a handbook as such. Several require specific policies to exist IN WRITING - New York requires a written sexual harassment prevention policy and a written policy on expressing breast milk, California requires a written lactation accommodation policy and a written workplace violence prevention plan. A handbook is where most employers put those, which is why the two questions get confused.

No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Every policy was written against a published primary source, which is cited and linked in your compliance summary so you can check it. That is research and citation, not legal review. This is document preparation, not legal advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Have counsel review your handbook before you issue it.

No document can. Some obligations need an action rather than a paragraph: California harassment training at five employees, New York's annual training, California's worksite-specific workplace violence plan, your required posters. Those appear on your completion checklist precisely because it is easy to read a policy and believe the job is done.

Thirteen: California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Washington, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Colorado. A state is only on that list if it has its own policies in our bank - we will not list a state and then hand you the federal baseline with its name on the cover. If yours is missing, do not buy; tell us and we will add it.

The policy set carries an effective date, printed on every document, and each policy links the published source it was written from. Employment law changes constantly; check the source before you rely on a figure.

No. Not one policy is written by a language model. Every word in a policy is either text from our curated bank - which carries a citation and a source link - or a field you typed. The build refuses to publish if anything else appears, and that check runs on every build. Your answers are never sent to an AI provider.

Tick every state and the handbook includes each one's policies, labelled with the state they apply to. That is the main reason to use this rather than a template: a two-state employer has two sets of leave rules and one document to put them in.

Anything only you can answer - your evacuation route, your PTO accrual if you did not describe it, a second person to receive complaints. Those print as [EMPLOYER TO COMPLETE] and are listed on a checklist at the end of the compliance summary. It never invents a benefit or a fact about your business to fill a gap.

Three documents in both Word and PDF: the handbook itself, a compliance summary listing every policy with the statute or regulation behind it and the published sources it was written from, and a separate acknowledgment form for the personnel file. You can correct your answers and rebuild up to ten times at no extra cost.