Translating an employee handbook

Nowadays practically all companies work with an employee handbook. For those of you who are not familiar with employee handbooks, these contain all the most important company regulations, rules and procedures. This includes salary scale information, pension plans and rules regarding calling in sick and absenteeism. It also includes examples of employment contracts.

As companies are now recruiting an ever increasing number of foreign workers and as employers have a certain obligation to keep their employees informed about the company’s rules and regulations, many companies opt to have their employee handbook translated, often into a common language like English.

Our translation agency is your perfect partner for these kinds of translation projects. Our translators have gained extensive experience with texts which focus on real human resources policies. Some of our translators have even achieved a human resources degree. The advantage of using a translator with this level of experience is that we are always completely up to date regarding the constantly changing laws and associated terminology. Plus it’s essential to stay abreast of Dutch law and legal regulations in this specific area.

The terminology associated with Dutch law regarding reintegration after sick leave, the revolving door principle and other specific regulations demand a great deal more than simply searching for the English equivalent. The translator chooses the best possible translation in close consultation with you and our project manager. We sometimes include brief descriptions in the translations. A text which your employees don’t understand is completely useless. We will return the completed translation to you together with comments and remarks, enabling you to stay up to date with the nuances we add to the translation resulting from differences in employment law.

If you send us the text in MS word, then we will return it to you in the exact same format.

Simply send us your employment conditions, CV, job application, assessment report, employee handbook, employment agreement, psychological profile or hiring letter via email and we will make sure you receive a competitively priced quotation by return. Please specify the target language too. If the required target language is English, then please let us know whether the text should be translated into British or American English.

You can send your text for translation via email.