Employee Handbook Template
In a nutshell, this Employee Handbook is a key document to help you protect your business against risks associated with employing staff.
It contains a variety of important HR Policies, which covers everything from booking holiday, your sickness absence process, right through to how you deal with poor performance – it sets out what you expect from your employees, and what they can expect from you.
⚡️ Last Updated in April 2025.
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What you'll receive
✅ After you’ve paid online, you'll receive an instant email with the link to the Employee Handbook Template which comes in Microsoft Word format.
✅ It's set to the statutory minimum, but you can be more generous should you wish too e.g. offering holiday, maternity or sick pay above the governments minimum level (totally optional)
✅ It’s 100% compliant with laws for England, Wales & Scotland for 2025 and it’s written in PLAIN English to avoid all misunderstandings.
✅To make doubly sure you get the best out of this template, you’ll also get some detailed instructions and FAQs to help you personalise it and send it to your employees.
✅ It’s pretty much done for you, so all you need to do is add your company logo and name, and then make any tweaks to the language so it reflects your awesome business brand. Any bits highlighted in yellow are for you to personalise.
✅ It has a dynamic contents page, to make you look like a pro and give your employees the best experience.
✅ After purchase, you can ask me all your questions to make sure you are super happy with everything.
✅ You’ll get Lifetime Access - so if I make changes as the law changes or add new policies, you’ll be able to accept the latest version.
The HR Policies included are:
- Adoption Leave
- Anti-Bribery & Gifts
- Bullying & Harassment
- Carer's Leave Policy
- Capability Policy
- Code of Conduct
- Conflict of Interest
- DBS policy *
- Disciplinary & Dismissal Policy
- Driving at Work *
- Employee Well-being
- Expenses Policy
- Fairness & Equality
- Flexible Working Policy
- Privacy Policy (GDPR)
- Grievance Policy
- Health & Safety Policy
- Holiday & Special Leave (e.g. Jury Service)
- IT / Data Security
- Leavers Policy
- Lone Working
- Maternity Leave Policy
- Modern Slavery Policy
- Neonatal Care Policy
- Paternity Leave Policy
- Personal Relationships at work policy
- Prevent Policy *
- Privacy Policy (Data Protection & GDPR)
- Recruitment Policy
- Redundancy Policy
- Safeguarding policy *
- Safer Recruitment Policy *
- Shared Parental Leave Policy
- Sickness Absence Policy
- Smoking, Drugs & Alcohol Policy
- Social Media Policy
- Training Policy
- Travel Policy
- Unauthorised Absence (AWOL) Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy
* Optional policies (remove if not applicable)
All purchases are subject to these terms.
A Brilliant Resource!
These template policies in the Employee Handbook were great. I had key gaps with an outdated handbook. This resource brought much-needed clarity. It’s up-to-date and helped me feel confident I hadn’t missed anything important.
Employee Handbook
This was just what our business needed. It has been written using simple, easy to understand, language and will be a fantastic resource for our employees. The template was easy to use and customise with our branding. Thank you Mandy & Modern HR
Great Docs
Easy to use, all docs in one place, very reasonable price. Great experience
Employee Handbook Template
The template is very easy to use and very informative, yet not overbearing. It is an ideal template to use for small businesses. Mandy is great! Approachable, knowledgeable and has been available to help throughout the process by giving us advice and additional policies when required.
A great resource
Mandy was extremely helpful and being able to download the document and brand it, saved me loads of time. Thank you