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Employee Handbook Drafting and Review
Colorado-compliant employee handbooks, drafted from scratch, rebuilt from a stale template, or reviewed against current law, and written for the industry you actually run.
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What our handbook service is
An employee handbook review is a senior consultant's structured pass through your handbook to find legal gaps, outdated policies, missing notices, and language that creates liability under current Colorado and federal law. We draft, rebuild, and review handbooks for Colorado businesses in construction, restaurants, healthcare, and professional services, including English and Spanish versions for teams that need them.
Who this fits
Small and mid-sized businesses that need employee handbooks run right.
Bilingual Workforces
You have Spanish-speaking staff who need the handbook in both English and Spanish, aligned line for line.
Construction and Trades
You run field crews, and your handbook needs safety, OSHA, drug, and vehicle policy most templates skip.
Restaurant and Hospitality
You run tipped, high-turnover teams, and weak handbook policy gets exposed the second something goes wrong.
Multi-State Employers
You have employees in Colorado plus other states, and one handbook can't cover all those different rules.
What's included in a handbook engagement
Everything included in a full employee handbooks engagement, from scope to handoff.
Audit
A documented review of your current handbook against Colorado and federal rules: FAMLI, HFWA, Equal Pay, required notices, ADA, and overtime classification.
Custom Drafting
A full handbook drafted from the ground up for your industry, verticals, locations, and culture. No generic template language anywhere.
Policy-by-Policy Build
Every core policy built for your industry: harassment, FAMLI and HFWA leave, PTO, attendance, remote work, technology, drug and alcohol, and termination.
Multi-State Add-Ons
State-specific addendums for every state outside Colorado where you have employees, each built against that state's actual rules.
Spanish Translation
A professional Spanish version, aligned line for line with the English, which many Colorado employers with Spanish-speaking teams need.
Annual Update Service
A yearly review of the handbook against new Colorado and federal changes. Most Colorado handbooks need updates every single year.
Manager Training
A 60-minute live session for your managers on what the handbook says, what they enforce, and when to escalate what they can't handle.
Acknowledgment Tracking
A proper acknowledgment-of-receipt form, plus how to collect, store, and track every employee's signature, digital or paper.
How a handbook engagement works
A structured process from discovery through ongoing partnership, adjusted to your scope.
Discovery
A short call on your industry, states, current handbook, and which policies you actually enforce.
Tailored solutions
Your consultant drafts the handbook to scope with a round of edits, then reviews it with your decision-makers.
Ongoing support
An optional yearly update keeps the handbook current as Colorado and federal law change.
How we structure pricing
We price handbook work by scope, not by page count. A rebuild, a ground-up draft, multi-state add-ons, Spanish translation, or a review and gap analysis are each quoted after the discovery call, based on your size, industry, and states. You get the price up front, before anything starts.
Employee Handbooks FAQs
Curious about something? We're here with answers! If you haven't found what you need on our website, give us a shout!
Yes. Multi-state handbooks include a Colorado base plus state-specific addendums for each additional state. Each addendum addresses the leave law, wage law, posted notices, and recordkeeping obligations of that state.
Yes. Construction handbooks need policy language for vehicle use, per diem and travel, drug and alcohol policy (with industry-realistic enforcement), OSHA-aligned safety policy, prevailing wage on public projects where applicable, and overtime policy under COMPS Order #40.
Yes. Restaurant handbooks need policy language most templates do not cover: tipped wage and tip credit policy under COMPS Order #40, dress code, food safety responsibilities, scheduling and shift policy, and high-turnover specific onboarding and termination language.
Yes. Spanish handbooks are line-aligned to the English version and reviewed by a native Spanish speaker for accuracy. Recommended for any Colorado workforce where Spanish is a significant first language among employees.
Required notices include FAMLI, HFWA, Equal Pay for Equal Work pay transparency framing, harassment and discrimination policies (including a reporting procedure), ADA accommodation procedure, and overtime/wage policy aligned with COMPS Order #40. Several other policies are not legally required but are practically required.
Every year at minimum, because Colorado employment law changes most years. Major rebuilds (rather than updates) are typically needed every 3 to 4 years, or sooner if you add states, acquire a company, or shift to remote.
Single-state handbook rebuilds run $2,500 to $5,500. Multi-state handbooks with state addendums run $4,500 to $9,500. Spanish translation adds $1,200 to $2,800. Review-only engagements (no rewrite) run $1,200 to $2,200.
Practically, yes. Colorado has more state-specific employment law than most states (FAMLI, HFWA, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Pay Transparency, COMPS Order #40, Job Application Fairness Act). Operating without a handbook means each employment situation gets handled ad-hoc, which is where most wrongful termination, discrimination, and wage claims come from.
