# Overview: Employee Handbook

## Status

**Implementation status:** Approved by Servants Council

**Date:** 2026-05-30

## Principle (from Streamline)

Lukaszewski's principle: A written employee handbook protects the church, protects the employee, and removes ambiguity about expectations, benefits, and conduct. It should be specific enough to use, short enough to read.

## Mayflower's Current Practice

## Governance & Document References

- Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws — personnel sections
- Position Descriptions (for role-specific references)

## Open Questions

- PTO / sabbatical policy
- Confidentiality scope (pastoral counsel vs. admin)

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*Page template: Principle + Mayflower Practice. Part of the Operations Plan, adapted from Michael Lukaszewski's Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems.*