Our employee promotion policy presents our guidelines for advancing and promoting employees from within our company. We want to invest in our employees and reward those who perform well.
This policy includes the process that managers must follow when promoting employees. We will communicate this policy to all employees to avoid confusion about who should be promoted and when.
This policy applies to all employees who qualify for promotion. Employees may be promoted only after their 6 month onboarding period ends and if they are not under a performance improvement plan.
“Promotion” may be a move to a position of higher rank, responsibility and salary. Often, employees may advance to positions that don’t come with higher managerial authority. Instead, these advancements may be a career or role change that helps employees develop and grow.
Employees may be promoted within the same or another department or branch.
We will promote employees based on their performance and workplace conduct. Acceptable criteria for promotion are:
These criteria reflect the bigger picture of an employee’s work. Managers should avoid making decisions for promotion based on recent or insignificant events. They should keep logs with important incidents that they might want to consider when it’s time to promote one of their team members.
In accordance with our company policies, we will not tolerate promotions that are based on: