Expatriate Policy Resources Expatriate Policies and Procedures Group has, for the first time, offered global employers a way to quickly and easily document expatriate policy AND communicate it to the field on-line not using paper or email!.

Expatriate Policy and Procedures Group is the easiest and most cost effective way to create an expatriate assignment manual. The alternative; pay a large consultant $30,000 or more for something they do not specialize in.

Although we can customize almost any part of the expatriate handbook, we feel much of the policy manual does not need to be changed to be effective in removing liability from an employer.

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Elements of an Expatriate Handbook.

The design of an expatriate employee handbook can vary of course, but all good expatriate handbooks that are part of a company-wide expatriate policy and procedures initiative should have the same basic elements. Here are three of the most important elements and why each is extremely important.

An expatriates personal responsibilities need to be addressed, and expats held accountable!

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Expats are often presented with a list of all the things the company is doing for them, but what is often left out is the expatriate's personal responsibilities. Things that they need to take care of on their own in order for the assignment to succeed.

Unlike in the home country, the personal interests of the expatriate and that of the employer cannot totally be separated.An expatriate that is thrown out of a country or does not manage his personal affairs well has just as much, or even more impact on the employer if things do not go well.

The major elements of an expatriate handbook:

  1. Welcome letter from the CEO to begin the expatriate handbook
  2. Host and home country contact information including emergency security contacts
  3. Pre-departure tasks and responsibilities of the expatriate and family such as vaccinations, immunization, cross cultural training, and security.
  4. The international move itself and the shipment of household goods.
  5. International insurance package
  6. International service package such as International EAP.
  7. Voluntary international insurance products not company paid like international renters insurance, vacant home insurance, etc.
  8. Expatriate housing
  9. Expatriate living in the host country (expatriate clubs, international schools for the children, etc.)
  10. Tax filing and equalization
  11. Human resources issues (there are many!). Are host holidays or home holdidays observed?
  12. Repatriation

Each section may be up to 10 pages long and contain up to 20 subsections. A complete expatriate policy manal will be no shorter than 80 pages in most instances or there are probably many important sections of the expatriate assignment manual missing.


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