Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
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Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
Hi All you helpful lot...
As the title says really - I'm wording our companies policy and they have changed the "tone" of their other policies etc and requested the same from the H&S Policy - does it really matter which I use or should it be "employee" to keep it in line with the HSWA '74??
As the title says really - I'm wording our companies policy and they have changed the "tone" of their other policies etc and requested the same from the H&S Policy - does it really matter which I use or should it be "employee" to keep it in line with the HSWA '74??
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Re: Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
Hi ct.
Contracts of employment state "the employee and the employer."
HSWA, as you so rightly say, says employer and employee.
Says it all in my logic and yours too by the sounds of things.
Contracts of employment state "the employee and the employer."
HSWA, as you so rightly say, says employer and employee.
Says it all in my logic and yours too by the sounds of things.
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Thanks Alexis - nice to see a friendly face
Yeah my logic does appear to be on the same page as yours - our HR dept can be quite precious about "tone" policies and so on.
Yeah my logic does appear to be on the same page as yours - our HR dept can be quite precious about "tone" policies and so on.
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I think all HR departments can be a bit precious at times.
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Re: Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
There may be times when you need to differentiate between your employees and those visiting your sites either as visitors or contractors. All could be phrased as a colleague in various ways. For official or important documents like policies, I'd go go with employee, visitor and contractor which covers most entities.
For example
visitors/contractors may / must be accompanied by a company employee - nice and simple and clearly defined who has what role
of
colleagues/ colleagues may /must be accompanied by colleagues - no idea who is who or what they do
You could write a document using employee etc and then simply use find/replace to use the word colleague and see how it alters the document. If they really are interchangeable then no further changes would be necessary. Otherwise the use of colleague will create larger documents and larger documents usually create more confusion.
For example
visitors/contractors may / must be accompanied by a company employee - nice and simple and clearly defined who has what role
of
colleagues/ colleagues may /must be accompanied by colleagues - no idea who is who or what they do
You could write a document using employee etc and then simply use find/replace to use the word colleague and see how it alters the document. If they really are interchangeable then no further changes would be necessary. Otherwise the use of colleague will create larger documents and larger documents usually create more confusion.
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Re: Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
Change it. It won't matter.
I used to work for one of the biggest companies in the UK with over 100 sites. They were SJW snowflakes as well and called their employees colleagues and it appeared in everything from employment contracts to health and safety policies, and if you didn't call them colleagues you got in to trouble.
I used to work for one of the biggest companies in the UK with over 100 sites. They were SJW snowflakes as well and called their employees colleagues and it appeared in everything from employment contracts to health and safety policies, and if you didn't call them colleagues you got in to trouble.
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God I hate 'colleague' and 'associates' and all that HR touchy-feely puffery! Employer and employee defines it perfectly. Harrumph.
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About the only companies I can think of where 'Colleague' is justified is the John Lewis Group where they all have a stake in the company.
The rest is all about snowflakes....
The rest is all about snowflakes....
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Re: Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
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Re: Policy Wording - Employee Vs Colleague??
Belt and braces:
"For the purposes of this policy, the definition of 'colleague' is an employee of Company."
"For the purposes of this policy, the definition of 'colleague' is an employee of Company."
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