Problem: Article: There are probably a lot of things you want to include in your employee handbook, but you may not know that there are also things you are legally required to include. You need to make sure to include information on equal employment opportunities, harassment, family medical leave, accommodations for people with disabilities. worker's compensation, military leave, breast feeding accommodations, and leave for victims of a crime. If applicable, include information about the company's non-disclosure agreements and/or conflict of interest statements. If the work environment is dangerous in any way, include information about the steps you take to ensure employee safety, as well as what they employees are expected to do. Although not legally required, it's also a good idea to include clauses regarding the company's right to terminate employees at will and to make changes to the manual. This will help protect the company if a former employee files a lawsuit. Employment laws are different in every state. It's a good idea to consult an attorney before you publish your employee handbook, just to make sure you didn't include or omit anything that might be damaging. Your employee handbook should clearly communicate to employees when they are expected to be in the office and how many hours they are expected to work each week. Also include information about overtime pay, being sure to clearly state who is and is not eligible for overtime. Make sure employees know how to report an absence. If you offer flexible hours, outline the procedure for taking advantage of this benefit. Let employees know when and how they should expect their paychecks as well. Be sure to devote a section of your manual to benefits, including paid time off, medical insurance, life insurance, the company's 401k plan, and anything else you offer. Be thorough in your explanations of these benefits so that most questions can be answered simply by consulting the manual. If your benefits are provided by an outside provider, let employees know where to find more information about the program. If you have a combination of hourly and salaried employees or part-time and full-time employees, be sure to clearly outline who falls into which category and what benefits are available to whom. The employee handbook is also the place to establish the rules by which your employees must abide. You can also establish a disciplinary procedure, but make sure it is not so specific that it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. Common topics covered by the code of conduct include: Unexcused absences and late arrivals Dress code Drug/alcohol policy How to interact with clients and coworkers Social media policy Your employees will find it helpful if they know exactly how their performance reviews will be conducted and when to expect them. Be as specific as possible in outlining the procedures and the expectations. Your office probably has a lot more procedures than you would imagine, so it may take some time to think of everything you need to address in your manual. Try to think about all of the questions a new employee might have about how your office works, including things like: How to clock in and out Lunch and break policies Telecommuting policies How to request time off How to file a complaint against a coworker Inclement weather policies
Summary: Know the legal requirements. Include information on hours and attendance. Talk about benefits. Lay out a code of conduct. Describe the review process. Include procedures.

Problem: Article: The formula for calculating percentage error is simple: [(|Approximate Value - Exact Value|) / Exact Value] x 100. You will use this as a reference to plug in the two values you need to know. The approximate value is your estimated value, and the exact value is the real value. For example, if you guess that there will be 9 oranges in a bag, but there are actually 10, 9 is the approximate value, and 10 is your exact value. In the example of oranges, you will subtract 10 (the exact value) from 9 (the estimated value). In this case, the result is 9 - 10 = -1. This difference is considered the magnitude of difference in approximate and estimated values. This begins to tell you how far off the results were from what they were expected to be. Since the formula uses the absolute value of the difference, you can discard a negative sign. In this example, -1 will become just 1. In the oranges example, 9 - 10 = -1. The absolute value of -1, written as |-1|, is 1. If your result is positive, leave the number as it is. For example, 12 apples (approximate) - 10 apples (exact) = 2. The absolute value of 2 (|2|) is just 2. In statistics, taking the absolute value simply means you don't care which direction your guess was off (either too highpositiveor too lownegative). You just want to know how far off the estimate was from the exact value. Either with a calculator or by hand, divide the top number by the absolute value of your exact variable. In this example, the exact value is already positive, so you just need to divide 1 (from the previous step) by 10 (the exact number of oranges). For this example, 1/|10| = 1/10. In some cases, the exact value might be a negative number to begin with. If this is the case, you want to ignore the negative (i.e. take the absolute value of the exact number).
Summary: Write down the formula for percentage error. Subtract the exact value from the approximate one. Find the absolute value of the top result. Divide that result by the absolute exact value.

Problem: Article: If you have been folding your sheets individually, you won't need to separate your papers, but if you have been folding six at a time, you'll need to separate these to move forward. Stack your finished, folded papers into like piles, one with the colored side out and the other with the white side out. Be sure your colors correspond between piles. If the first color of your colored pile is red, the first color of your white pile should also be red (on the inside). You should fold the top triangular part of your paper along its base so that the triangles face outward to form wings. These will be inserted into your colored papers. To find the pocket on your colored paper, slightly open the outer flaps of paper on the "legs." This is the pocket into which you will insert the white flap of your other paper. You will also need to: Using your right hand, hold together the outer flaps on the legs of one side of your white paper. Then fold down the top triangle part so that it forms a flap that you can insert into the pocket of the colored paper. Once you have successfully inserted your white flap into the colored pocket, open the "legs" that you've been holding together with your right hand on the other side to expose the other flap. Now you can fit the second flap into your next piece of colored paper. Lock your white and colored papers together until all 12 pieces are connected. The bottoms of your linked pieces of paper should be even. Now you can fold the right two flaps of your outermost white paper to reveal the next paper in the series, which should be colored. Then fold the top of your paper down so that the flat top edge is even with the base of the now inverted triangular shape. This should form the same left and right outward pointing triangles that you folded when you creased your lock folds. Fold all of your lock creases for each paper, starting from one end and skipping the end white paper. You should spread out your now connected and locked together papers to make connecting the ends easier. Put the end white papers final flap into the pocket of the colored paper at the other end of your paper chain. Close the two outer locks by rotating the paper so that the inside is facing outward. Once you have locked all the individual parts of your firework together and have rotated the inside out, your firework should be complete.
Summary:
Separate your papers, if necessary. Fold out the flaps of your white papers. Insert the flap into the pocket. Free the other white flap. Invert the paper so the top triangle faces downward. Connect your ends together.