Your employee handbook can be an invaluable organizational tool—or an employment lawsuit waiting to happen. And in recent years, Congress and state legislatures have been busy enacting laws that directly affect your employee handbook. If you haven’t kept up, your organization could be sued.

To help you avoid disaster, we’ve compiled this special report, The Essential Employee Handbook, which provides employee handbook sample policy language, employment law guidelines, self-audit tips and warnings on the most common mistakes that may be lurking in your employee handbook.