{"id":758,"date":"2012-12-03T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/?p=758"},"modified":"2016-08-04T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:49:32","slug":"policy-writers-beware-of-false-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/policy-writers-beware-of-false-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Writers Beware of False Promises!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Electric-Light-Globe1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-768\" title=\"Electric Light Globe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Electric-Light-Globe1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>From a recent seminar that I attended at <strong>Jackson MacDonald Lawyers<\/strong> I learned that as a rule of thumb for policy writers &#8211; make sure that you do not use &#8220;promissory language&#8221; in your policy writing where you do not intend creating an obligation on the employer to provide additional benefits to its employees:  and remember not everything needs to be in policy form, there is plenty of room for &#8220;guidelines&#8221; that set out practices and procedures guidelines for managers to follow (for example in the disciplinary and performance management processes). Call me any time 24\/seven if you would like to discuss this further +61419907443.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent seminar that I attended at Jackson MacDonald Lawyers I learned that as a rule of thumb for policy writers &#8211; make sure that you do not use &#8220;promissory language&#8221; in your policy writing where you do not intend creating an obligation on the employer to provide additional benefits to its employees: and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a class=\"archives-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/policy-writers-beware-of-false-promises\/\" title=\"Policy Writers Beware of False Promises!!\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,67],"tags":[53,55],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disciplinary-processes","category-employee-benefits","category-policy-development","tag-discipline","tag-dismissal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19176,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/19176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}