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Model policies: The complete list

Browse the full range of model HR policies available in HR and Compliance Centre. Model policies for staff handbooks and HR frameworks Our Policies and Procedures tool provides a comprehensive selection of model HR policies to help employers create, update and maintain a compliant staff handbook. Sign up today to get: Want to see more?…

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Browse the full range of model HR policies available in HR and Compliance Centre.

Model policies for staff handbooks and HR frameworks

Our Policies and Procedures tool provides a comprehensive selection of model HR policies to help employers create, update and maintain a compliant staff handbook.

Sign up today to get:

  • Appearance and behaviour
  • Capability, disciplinary and grievance
  • Data protection
  • Dispute resolution
  • Employee wellbeing
  • Equality diversity and inclusion (EDI)
  • Family-friendly rights
    • Adoption leave
    • Bereavement
    • Carers
    • Gender-neutral/equalised family leave
    • Maternity leave
    • Neonatal care leave
    • Ordinary parental leave leave
    • Paternity leave
    • Shared parental leave
  • Flexible working
  • Health and safety
  • Holiday and holiday pay
  • Pay and benefits
  • Protecting your business
  • Recruitment
  • Redundancy
  • References
  • Retirement
  • Secondment
  • Sickness and sick pay
  • Specific events and incidents
  • Technology and employee monitoring
  • Time off work
  • Trade union
  • Training and development
  • Transfer of undertakings
  • Variation of contract
  • Volunteering
  • Working hours

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Updated to include a new Paternity leave policy (expected week of childbirth from 5 April 2026 or birth from 6 April 2026).

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