SD–HIRE–03 · United States · not scoped to any state · handbook and hiring forms
29-page handbook · 15 sections · plus fill-in checklist, how-to guide and sources · 54 pages across 4 files
You are hiring your first employee on Monday and the only handbook you have is one you downloaded, which was written for a state you have never been to.
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A handbook body a small employer fills in and issues, plus an offer letter, a signed acknowledgement page, a three-stage onboarding checklist and a state addendum page. 499 fill-in blanks across 16 sections. It is not scoped to any state, and that is the point rather than a gap: at-will wording, final paycheck deadlines, vacation payout, sick leave accrual, overtime thresholds, break rules, permitted deductions and protected characteristics are state law and often city law, so every one of those figures is a blank rather than a default an employee would read back to you. Section 1.1 is a 28-question page for looking your own rules up before you write a single number, and Section 11 audits your own work: a policy with a blank state-rule column is one you guessed at. No regulation is cited, because no federal rule governs what a handbook says.
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The rest of the set
Businesses like yours usually start with these. It is where a trade starts, not a complete legal inventory of everything it could ever be asked for — no list on any website is that. Every line below says where it came from.
Showing what a demolition contractor is asked to carry.
65 trades on our list need this document. The 6 above are spread across the kinds of business that need it; the other 59 are here.
Demolition contractor13 items on the list, two of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell eight of the other twelve; four we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
REGA regulator asks for this.
Also answers: Fall protection / written safety element.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this.
29 CFR 1926.1101
REGA regulator asks for this.
29 CFR 1926.62
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
COMPNot a rule we can point at — it is standard in this trade.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistTattoo studio / piercing shopEleven items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell six of the other ten; four we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
REGA regulator asks for this.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Your state can add to this. We have written down three places where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistDental practiceEight items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell six of the other seven; one we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
REGA regulator asks for this.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
We have these written down against this trade but not well enough sourced to tell you a rule demands them. So we are not telling you that.
REGA regulator asks for this.
45 CFR part 160
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistTrucking & freight carrierEleven items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell three of the other ten; seven we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this.
49 CFR 391.45
REGA regulator asks for this.
49 CFR 391.11
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49 CFR 382.301
REGA regulator asks for this.
49 CFR 387.7
REGA regulator asks for this.
49 CFR 395.8
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
COMPNot a rule we can point at — it is standard in this trade.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistBar, tavern & sports barTwelve items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell four of the other eleven; seven we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
REGA regulator asks for this.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
REGA regulator asks for this.
21 CFR 117.1
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Your state can add to this. We have written down three places where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistElectrical contractor13 items on the list, two of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell nine of the other twelve; three we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
REGA regulator asks for this.
Also answers: Fall protection / written safety element.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this.
29 CFR 1910.147
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
COMPNot a rule we can point at — it is standard in this trade.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
Print this checklistInside the file
01The handbook itself, 16 sections with 499 fill-in fields, as a fill-in PDF you can type into
02A 28-question page for looking up your own state's final paycheck deadline, sick leave accrual, overtime threshold and at-will wording before you write a single figure
03Handbook sections on employment basics, hours and timekeeping, pay, time off, conduct, safety, technology and property, and ending employment
04An offer letter with the at-will sentence sitting directly under the rate of pay, and a conditional-offer warning
05A three-stage onboarding checklist: 18 items before or on day one, 11 in the first week, 6 by thirty days
06A signed acknowledgement of receipt, a separate at-will acknowledgement, and a handbook revision log
07A state and local addendum page for an employer who operates in more than one place
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These are the real rules this plan is built on. Every citation was read against the published text on the date shown above, and each link goes to the official source, not to a summary.
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