HR Policy & Employee Handbook

What this is

An HR policy and employee handbook for your business - leave and attendance, working hours, code of conduct, IT and data use, expenses, performance and discipline, grievance, exit, and the statutory policies the law expects - drafted to the Labour Codes and your state's rules and tailored to how you actually work. It is for companies, LLPs, firms and NGOs with staff. Our panel advocate drafts and reviews the handbook and delivers it signed on letterhead for adoption by your board or management.

What you get

An HR policy and employee handbook drafted, reviewed and signed by our panel advocate on letterhead, covering employment categories and probation, working hours, attendance and remote work, leave and holidays to the statutory minimums, compensation and payroll, expenses and travel, code of conduct, conflict of interest and gifts, IT, email, social media and data security, confidentiality and IP, performance management, disciplinary procedure, grievance redressal, anti-harassment with reference to the POSH policy, health and safety, exit and full and final settlement, and a policy acknowledgement form. Delivered as an adoptable document with a note on the statutory policies that must sit alongside it, such as the POSH policy and, where required, certified standing orders. Filing or certification of standing orders is not included.

How it works

1. 1Tell us about the businessRegistration, headcount, states, working pattern and existing policies. Upload what you have.
2. 2Confirm the policy choicesLeave, hours, remote work, expenses, discipline and grievance.
3. 3Answer the advocate's questionsWhether standing orders apply, whether staff are in multiple states, what problems the handbook should solve, and how it will be adopted and communicated.
4. 4PayPay the fee.
5. 5Advocate drafts and signsOur panel advocate drafts the handbook and signs it on letterhead.
6. 6Handbook is deliveredYou receive the handbook and acknowledgement form, with the adoption and statutory note.

What to have ready

• Existing policies or handbook (if you have it)If any.
• Registration of the establishment (if you have it)Shops and Establishments certificate, incorporation, PF and ESI registrations.
• Standard appointment letter (if you have it)If any.
• Organisation chart or list of roles (if you have it)To calibrate the policies.
• POSH policy or Internal Committee order (if you have it)If any.

What this is based on

• All labour codes above
• Industrial Relations Code, 2020 (2020)Source: https://prsindia.org/files/bills_acts/acts_parliament/2020/Industrial%20Relations%20Code,%202020.pdf
• POSH Act 2013 (2013)
• state-specific S&E Acts
• DPDP Act 2023 (2023)