HR Policy Writing
HR Policy Writing: Draft a clear policy for a defined workforce need. Review the workforce question, policy, jurisdiction, role scope, and available evidence and produce a policy draft with exceptions and owner.
--- name: human-resources-hr-policy-writing description: Use for hr policy writing when asked to draft a clear policy for a defined workforce need; produce a policy draft with exceptions and owner. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: human-resources --- # HR Policy Writing ## When to use Use this skill for hr policy writing when you need to draft a clear policy for a defined workforce need. The expected result is a policy draft with exceptions and owner. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect the workforce question, policy, jurisdiction, role scope, and available evidence. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Identify policy, jurisdiction, role, timeline, documentation, privacy needs, and the accountable HR reviewer. 2. **Decide.** Apply a consistent process with documented criteria and human review. 3. **Produce.** Build a policy draft with exceptions and owner from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Apply consistent job-related criteria and separate observations from interpretations about a person. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Avoid inferring protected traits or making unsupported performance claims. - Flag jurisdiction-specific rules for qualified review. ## Verification Verify jurisdiction and current internal rules. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Create a fair, confidential work product with evidence references, exceptions, and qualified-review items. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide a policy draft with exceptions and owner. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->