HR advisory, assessments, and operating tools for U.S. businesses
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Small business HR policy
Build an employee handbook for your small team with foundation policies, an at-will statement, and key rules that carry real legal weight. Adapt the template to your workplace with guidance from the Field Guide.
The free HR Compliance Risk Scorecard uses twelve questions to give you a graded assessment of worker classification, wage and hour, hiring, policy, and records.
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The Field Guide explains which policies carry legal weight and which you can adapt to your workplace.
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What is inside
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How to use it
Start with the Field Guide, then work through the handbook and supporting workbook. By step 5, you will have a process for keeping it current.
Begin with the Field Guide. It covers what a handbook needs, at-will, equal opportunity, pay and hours, leave, conduct rules that touch labor law, and how to keep it current.
Customize the Handbook Template for your workplace. Complete the shaded fields, decide which policies to keep, customize, or remove, match your state, and rebrand the footer before distribution.
Use the Workbook to track policy adoption. Run the Coverage Check for your headcount, record each policy on the Policy Adoption Tracker, and refer to Definitions as needed.
Give the handbook to every employee and collect each signed acknowledgment. Record them on the Acknowledgment Log and keep the signed copies on file.
Review the handbook once a year and whenever a law, your headcount, or your workplace practices change. Keep your required workplace postings up to date alongside it.
Before you buy
Find details about file formats, delivery, licensing, and refunds.
You receive 5 PDF guides, 1 Word document, and 1 Excel workbook, all named in the What is inside section above. This is a one time purchase, delivered as a download, not a subscription.
Yes. The first image shows the file set, and the second and third show actual pages from the current download.
Yes. You can edit and brand the Word document, fill in the Excel workbook, and read or print the PDF guides for your own internal operations.
For help implementing this tool, book a one hour Setup Session for $149. For broader HR support, advisory begins with a short request and a written scope at truestephr.com/pages/advisory. For legal questions, consult qualified counsel.
Right after payment, your download link appears on the confirmation screen and again in your email receipt. All files arrive as one ZIP. No account is needed.
You can use Word and Excel, LibreOffice on a computer, or Google Docs and Google Sheets in a browser. The alternatives are free. Any PDF reader opens the guides. See download help.
Email support@truestephr.com within 30 days for a full refund. No form or explanation is required. The full terms are in the refund policy.
No. It is general HR information and a working method. It is not written to any one state unless the page says so. Where a decision turns on the law, use qualified counsel. See what we cover, and what we do not.
One license covers the internal HR work of one legal entity. You may edit the files, brand them, and issue them to your employees. Consultants and groups with several entities need the extended license. See the license.
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