VirgilHR: Empowering HR Professionals with the Ultimate Compliance Solutions
HR departments must comply with countless laws and regulations surrounding workplace and employment practices. Noncompliance with these laws can cause serious reputational, financial, and legal damages. With so many employment and labor laws to track and serious complications attached to every case of non-compliance, how can HR teams ensure their companies remain compliant every single […]
The Tech Industry – 5 Toughest Compliance Challenges for Human Resources
There’s no doubt that tech plays a huge role in our economy. According to recent statistics, the tech industry contributes between 9 and 10% of the U.S. annual GDP. Companies vary in size from massive organizations, like Google, to tiny startups run by just a handful of people. However, each company faces its challenges, particularly […]
The Gig Economy: 6 Vital Challenges HR Faces
The nature of the workforce is changing globally, with the rise of the gig economy. 16.4% of the American workforce comprises gig workers, with 30% of young adults aged 18-29 making up the demographic. Gig workers differ from full-time employees since they typically work via short-term contracts with non-traditional employer-employee arrangements. This presents a new […]
COVID’s Profound Impact on Labor Law: Moving Ahead or Stuck in the Past?
On May 11, 2023, the CDC ended its federal public health emergency for COVID-19. After three years of tremendous upset among employers, workers, students, and children, the nation emerged from the disaster with a solid roadmap for handling future pandemics. Of the multiple areas that COVID-19 altered, one of the most significant was labor law. […]
5 Ways to Simplify Your HR Compliance
Regardless of where they are based, all institutions have a certain set of employment rules, laws, and regulations they must adhere to. HR Compliance is the businesses’ commitment to these very laws. They govern a company’s policies, systems, and documentation. The inability to abide by employment laws can lead companies to several legal quicksands – […]
How to Solve the Top 6 Employment and Labor Law Pain Points
The need to comply with thousands of ever-evolving federal, state, and local employment and labor laws brings several challenges to the company’s threshold. As a result, employers end up spending excessive time and money to track the current compliance requirements and (sometimes) get exposed to high levels of risk and liability – ultimately leading to […]
An HR Manager’s Guide to Navigate Employment & Labor Law
Governing work hours, benefits, compensation, time off, and other areas of employment laws at federal, state, and local levels demand in-depth knowledge of changes that affect these laws. When small differences emerging out of laws that change from year to year are neglected, that is when massive HR policy blunders take form. This, in turn, […]
3 Ways to Reduce Your Risk & Liability in HR
Simply put, the performance and skill of individuals can make or break a company’s success. This only means one thing – your HR department is one of the most risk-prone areas of your business. Employment laws witness constant changes and the pandemic has brought in brand new challenges for HR managers. As a result, managing […]
6 Ways HR Teams Can Better Manage Remote Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way we work and how HR teams manage workers. Ongoing lockdowns, school closures, and the risk of contracting the disease forced many businesses to close their office doors, requiring employees to handle their work duties from home. Though the CDC ended the COVID-19 public health emergency in May 2023, some […]
9 Common Misconceptions About FMLA
The Family and Medical Leave Act is an essential piece of legislation that all HR teams must be aware of and, more importantly, compliant. Research shows, the FMLA covers about 56% of the U.S. workforce. Despite the high number of eligible employees, several HR teams are still poorly informed about some critical aspects of the […]