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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney<\/a><\/p>\n

Regardless of whether there is a written employment contract, an oral employment contract or no employment contract at all, when an Employment Handbook or Policy Handbook exists, it may provide additional contractual rights either for the employer or the employee. The result is that an Employment Handbook or Policy Handbook could control an employer\u2019s ability to either discipline or terminate an employee for misconduct. For this reason, it is important to review all of the statements made in the Employment Handbook or Policy Handbook regarding discipline and termination.<\/p>\n

The very best Employment Handbooks or Policy Handbooks contain statements that allow discretion to the employer for both disciplining and terminating employees with language such as, “should the employee engage in this or similar behavior, the employee may be subject to discipline up to and including termination.” Some even go so far as to state specifically that certain types of described misconduct by an employee may lead to discipline and\/or termination.<\/p>\n

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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney Regardless of whether there is a written employment contract, an oral employment contract or no employment contract at all, when an Employment Handbook or Policy Handbook exists, it may provide additional contractual rights either for the employer or the employee. The result is that an Employment Handbook or Policy Handbook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nA Policy Handbook as an Employment Contract|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have any questions about employment termination, we can help. 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