Your salon employee handbook is the only protection that serves as a binding contract between you and your employees.

Without a written book of your employee expectations and a contract in which both parties agree and accept it, both the employee and the employer are leaving themselves wide open to interpretation should a dispute arise.

When you give clear guidelines to the conduct and performance expectations in your salon you are giving your employees the formula for success within your company. Without it they can be meeting their own expectations but not those of the salon. This is not fair to either party not to mention irresponsible of the salon.

Let me say right off the get go that your employee handbook or employee contracts are not legal documents and shouldn’t be used as such, but, in circumstances of termination, pay disputes and performance issues it is your salons Bible!

A sufficient employee handbook documents all terms of employment expectations and becomes binding when the employee and employer agree to the terms with signatures.

Employees who work in salons where there is no employee handbook or contracts are leaving themselves open to unfair treatments, working conditions and absolutely no regulations for pay increases. And, salons who do not provide this information to their employees are being irresponsible to their teams and leaving themselves wide open to the same unfair conditions as well.

I have seen many good intending salons and employees get carried away in the process of fighting for clients, money and severance when all that was needed was a thorough employee handbook.

Now, I am not trying to scare you just emphasizing good business practice for salons to protect themselves and cautioning professionals to seek companies that provide this security. Everybody wins in environments of open and honest communication.

For a template of a complete employee handbook that you can customize for your salon, visit:

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