DETROIT – Managers generally tend to underestimate the importance of their organization’s employee handbook. Of course they understand that employees need to know the policies, practices and benefits that are part of employment with the organization. But too often, the same executives who will go over a proposal or a contract with a fine-tooth comb knowing that its language may dictate the success or failure of a project will generally not attach the same gravity to their employee handbook.
But that is exactly what the courts do.
The Michigan Bar Association’s Court Decision Reporting Service provides daily updates on employment and labor law decisions made in state and federal courts. Day in and day out, decisions about the workplace coming from the lower courts right on up to the U.S. Supreme Court make one thing perfectly clear: they all rely heavily on the employee handbook as a reference point for the decisions they make on the wrongful employment practice claims in front of them.
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