Friday, November 21, 2008

Updating Your Nonprofit's Policies

We received a great question today about personnel policies:
1)When the personnel handbook policies are rewritten and adopted, does this negate all previous policies?

Share your input on this question or check back for the answer from CCSNYS Legal Accountability & Compliance Services. A quick point about your nonprofit's personnel policies: CCSNYS recommends that you have these policies reviewed on a regular basis in order to protect your organization and stay up on changes to employment laws and regulations.
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2 comments:

Andrew Marietta said...

On behalf of Robert D. Harder, Human Resources and Development, Wilber National Bank:

Normally an employee handbook is not changed in its entirety, parts are updated as needed. When a section is changed, the whole manual is considered revised, thus the old is no longer valid. We have a policy that each year the board of directors approves the handbook (with or without changes), and as of the new year, the previous year's handbook is no longer valid (by resolution of the board).
Bob

November 24, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Andrew Marietta said...

On behalf Dan Maskin, Chief Executive Officer, Opportunities for Otsego, Inc.:

Yes but it’s best to put in a zipper clause so that the intent is clear. Here’s ours:

All other Personnel Policies, whether written or oral, are declared null and void, ceasing to have any effect whatsoever by the publication and dissemination of these Personnel Policies. This current set of Personnel Policies supersedes all prior Personnel Policies.

Dan Maskin
Chief Executive Officer
Opportunities for Otsego, Inc.
3 West Broadway
Oneonta, NY 13820
www.ofoinc.org

November 24, 2008 at 10:21 AM

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