Staying compliant with federal, state, and local labor and employment laws is more challenging now than ever. Regulations are frequently changing, and staying up-to-date can be daunting. Particularly, companies operating across multiple states feel the immense effort it takes to remain compliant. Thankfully, ComplianceHR understands these challenges. Simplify and streamline labor and employment law updates and changes with our HR compliance tools.
With HR compliance tools leveraging this up-to-date and legally compliant information, you can better support your organization’s HR compliance efforts.
PolicySmart
Your Employee Handbook Solution
Creating and maintaining an employee handbook that meets both federal and state regulations is a critical task for HR professionals. However, it’s often easier said than done, especially when laws are constantly evolving. This is where ComplianceHR’s PolicySmart comes in.
PolicySmart is an intuitive HR compliance solution designed to help organizations create, update, and maintain employee handbooks that comply with the latest regulations. PolicySmart gives you access to national employee handbook templates with state-specific supplements. Moreover, these templates are updated as soon as legal changes go into effect. During the interim between large updates, there are likely going to be pesky one-off changes or regional updates. With this in mind, this solution sends twice-monthly emails that announce policy changes as they occur.
As a result, this solution reduces HR compliance risk and saves time and effort, allowing HR professionals to focus on other strategic tasks.
The ComplianceHR Reference Center
Providing You Answers to Your Employment Law & HR Compliance Questions
Navigating the complexities of employment law can be overwhelming. As such, employers need a reliable resource to stay informed and compliant. The ComplianceHR Reference Center serves as a comprehensive information hub. This HR compliance solution provides employers with the resources needed to navigate the ever-changing landscape of federal, state, and local laws.
The Reference Center includes comprehensive reports covering critical HR compliance topics, like minimum wage, predictive scheduling, FMLA, among many others. Correspondingly, these reports can compare requirements by jurisdiction or sub-topic, ensuring your HR team is able to implement the most stringent policies to ensure compliance.
With information directly sourced from Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest employment law firm, you can feel confident that the information will always be updated and legally compliant. Whether you’re looking for comprehensive employment law guides or quick policy information, the Reference Center has you covered. Therefore, it’s an essential tool for employers who want to stay ahead of the curve and ensure their HR practices are always aligned with current regulations.
The ComplianceHR Document Center
Helping You Generate Compliant Employee Documents
Proper documentation is a cornerstone of HR compliance. Whether it’s employee applications, leave documents and forms, or advice on how to implement the proper forms and documents, it is crucial the proper paperwork is in place.
Unfortunately, generating these documents can take time and effort. Especially when you consider the differences between federal and state employment law compliance. Not only does the ComplianceHR Document Center simplify this task, but also it offers a streamlined solution for creating compliant employee documents throughout the employee lifecycle.
With the Document Center, HR professionals can efficiently generate documents that meet all legal requirements. This both reduces the risk of errors and ensures that all paperwork is legally sound. Importantly, this tool helps organizations maintain best practices for HR documentation. Consequently, your HR department will have an easier time keeping up with reporting requirements and preparing for audits or legal inquiries.
Navigator Overtime
Ensuring You Accurately Classify Your Employees
Overtime compliance and employee overtime exemption are critical issues for many employers. Undeniably, employee misclassification can lead to costly fines and legal challenges. Navigator Overtime takes the guesswork out of this process. Simply, this HR compliance solution helps professionals make accurate classifications without spending significant time and money on the legal hours that this process typically requires. This solution uses legal information from Littler Mendelson to ensure employees are classified correctly.
With a simple questionnaire, Navigator Overtime provides an analysis of your employee position’s classification. Next, it determines the position is at risk of being misclassified by either federal or state law. Then, it will provide clear guidance on how to alleviate the risk. Whether you’re an HR professional trying to determine if a manager qualifies as exempt or you’re an attorney ensuring employer compliance for a client, Navigator Overtime offers the tools and information you need to get it right.
Navigator Independent Contractor
Giving You Confidence In Your Independent Contractor Classifications
The rise of the gig economy has made independent contractor classification a popular and rapidly changing employment law topic. Misclassifying workers can result in significant legal and financial consequences, and in some cases, it can even result in class action lawsuits. ComplianceHR’s Navigator Independent Contractor tool helps employers confidently navigate this complex area of employment law.
To begin, a quick questionnaire identifies your fact pattern for the contractor position. Next, Navigator Independent Contractor provides a thorough analysis of your IC positions. In minutes, you will receive clear, easy-to-follow guidelines for what changes you need to make to the contractor position to mitigate the risk of misclassification. Importantly, this solution considers both federal and state laws, while also factoring in the rulings of relevant court cases. Further, Navigator IC offers a comprehensive analysis to ensure that your classifications are accurate and compliant. This tool is essential for companies that rely on a flexible workforce but want to avoid the pitfalls of misclassification.
How HR Compliance Tools Can Help Your Organization
ComplianceHR’s tools are designed to address some of the most common and pressing challenges HR professionals face. Here’s how these HR compliance tools can benefit your organization:
- Streamline Compliance Processes: Automate and simplify compliance tasks, reducing the time and effort required to stay compliant.
- Centralized Compliance Management: Manage critical aspects of HR compliance from a single platform, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the board.
- Improved Accuracy and Consistency: Ensure that your documents and handbooks are always up-to-date and compliant. HR compliance solutions like PolicySmart and the Reference Center use the latest policies and information.
- Enhanced Risk Management: Reduce the risk of costly misclassifications and legal challenges with Navigator Overtime and Navigator Independent Contractor.
- Comprehensive Employment Law Information: Stay informed and prepared with labor resources for employers from the ComplianceHR Reference Center. This solution offers accurate and updated labor and employment law information.
- Regulatory Updates and Alerts: Stay abreast of changes that may impact your organization’s compliance strategy. ComplianceHR’s suite of solutions provides employers with real-time updates and alerts regarding changes in employment law.
- Improved Reporting and Transparency: Maintain clear, accurate employee handbooks, forms, and documents that can be easily accessed and reviewed.
- Cost Savings: Reduce the time and resources spent on compliance tasks significantly, while freeing up your HR team to focus on strategic initiatives.
- Support Ethical Practices: Ensure that your organization always complies with labor laws, fosters a positive work environment and protects its reputation.
Avoid Costly Compliance Mistakes with ComplianceHR
Navigating the complexities of employment law is challenging, especially when the regulatory landscape is constantly shifting. Unfortunately, as new laws are enacted and existing laws evolve, the risk associated with HR compliance only grows.
ComplianceHR provides robust, user-friendly technology solutions that ensure you comply with the latest employment laws. Equally important, the Navigator Suite solutions receive real-time updates. Not only does this give you confidence that the information and resources you’re using are current but also accurate.
Don’t let compliance challenges put your organization at risk. Contact ComplianceHR today to learn how we can transform your organization’s approach to compliance.
Disclaimer
This article should be a starting point for educating Human Resources and Legal professionals on certain aspects of employers’ legal obligations. It is not a comprehensive resource or a complete explanation of requirements. It offers practical information concerning the subject matter and is provided with the understanding that ComplianceHR is not rendering legal or tax advice, or other professional services. The contents are for general informational purposes only. We urge you to consult your attorney concerning any particular situation and any specific legal questions you may have.
