Michigan State University Extension has developed a Farm Employee Handbook template that can be downloaded and modified for any greenhouse or nursery business. It is general enough that it contains all the needs for an operation that is employing hundreds of workers, all the way down to a workforce of five.
To learn more about the Farm Employee Handbook, including how to download and customize it for your greenhouse, check out this article from Michigan State University.
“I am confident those greenhouses and nurseries that develop their own farm employee handbook will be happy they did so when sticky issues comes up, and they can refer to their copy to help them resolve a human resource problem,” Dudek says.