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Employee Handbook

Let us take care of your employee handbook for your California employees or use our template based Do-it-yourself employee handbook to make sure you are in compliance for your English and Spanish speaking employees.

CEA's user-friendly Do-It-Yourself Sample Employee Handbook template was designed especially for California employers. Our handbook template contains all the required components of an employee handbook, plus sample policies to develop a handbook that reflects your company’s operating procedures and culture.

Option 1: Purchase the Do-It-Yourself Employee Handbook. CEA has developed a Sample Employee Handbook template in English & Spanish to assist you in creating your own personalized Handbook (members: be sure to log in to the website to get the member price).

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Option 2: Let CEA do the work! Our experienced HR Advisors will work with you to quickly create a customized and compliant California Employee Handbook for your business! Once your handbook is complete, you can request our HR experts to explain any changes to your employees in English & Spanish.

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Learn why an employee handbook is such an important tool in our featured Better Business Bureau's Pro Tip Video:

Handbook preview image2025 Handbook Updates are available for Members (in English & Spanish!) on our HR Forms page (be sure to log in!). 

CEA publishes complimentary handbook updates each year around December/January, which you can access above. Our HR advisors can also assist with handbook updates as consultation time. Please note that our HR advisors will only update handbooks that CEA has worked on in the past two years. As such, we recommend to have CEA update your handbook at least every two years. If more than 2 years have passed since your last update, we will prepare a brand-new handbook. We are unable to review non-CEA handbook templates.