Workplace question - Does your company collect the old Employee Handbooks before issuing new ones?

[underpants]

My company has done this for the last two years.
Last year after re-issue we had a mandatory hour of reading the new one. Well it into (interest and energy fading) was the page on vacation/sick leave hours accrual. We have them combined. We lost an hour per month of time off and I didn't even notice it until someone else mentioned it the next day.

Is this a normal practice, the collection of the former Employee Handbook?

[librabear]

1. I've never seen that

We are required to sign the new handbook. Not signing is the same as quitting.

[JimDandy]

6. Same here at every company that's issued one. n/t

[teenagebambam]

2. Happens in Higher Education n/t

[NYC_SKP]

3. It would be a good idea to ensure people refer to the most current one.

But each preceding year's handbook should remain available to employees as a reference and to check changes.

[underpants]

4. That's what I thought too

I have had several jobs since finally finishing and getting my degree. I had never heard of this before.

[onehandle]

5. It's all online. They update it. nt

[etherealtruth]

13. Exactly

[petronius]

7. Our handbooks, policies, procedures, and whatnot are all online - I was given a hardcopy

of the faculty handbook when I was first hired, but nothing since then. A lot of our rules are pretty mysterious; we generally just get nastygrams when it becomes apparent that a lot of us either don't know them or are ignoring them...

[cantbeserious]

8. No - We Replace The Old Electronic Copy With A New Version

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[sad-cafe]

9. yes

Every year we turned in the prior year handbook and received the new updated one.

[SheilaT]

10. Not where I work.

We get an Employee Handbook when we're hired, or at least I did. I kind of think they don't really issue them anymore. Every so often I do go and read parts of it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Our manuals were in little loose-leaf binders,

so every now and then we'd get an envelope with replacement pages and a set of instructions like "replace page 29 with the enclosed pages 29-29a."

It was cheaper than reprinting the whole manual every time company policy changed re: "Displaying Your Naughty Bits to Customers" and "Assaulting Customers with a Super Soaker." (As I recall, both actions were highly discouraged.)

[underpants]

12. Ours are in loose-leaf binders too

They came around with a cart on Friday and took the whole thing binder and all.
I hadn't even considered the cost element of this.