How to Navigate Through Multistate HR Compliance
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely was something of an anomaly. Few people had full-time remote positions. Fast forward to 2023, and 27% of new job postings are for remote workers. The rise of remote work introduces compliance challenges for human resources departments, particularly those hiring employees from across the country. States vary in their […]
Top Compliance Challenges & Best Practices to Overcome Them
Compliance in HR is non-negotiable. Your team risks paying hefty fines and suffering a bad reputation due to poor compliance management. Still, it’s a tricky area for HR teams to navigate. According to data, businesses have been heavily investing in HR platforms to handle the challenges facing their human resources departments. By 2022, 46% of […]
How HR Compliance Software Can Help Avoid Lawsuits
Employment lawsuits are legal disputes that arise from employment relationships between employers and employees. These lawsuits can be initiated by employees, former employees, or even job applicants who feel that their rights have been violated or that they have been subjected to unfair treatment or discrimination in the workplace. Employers are legally obligated to provide […]
Are You in Compliance with the New Employment & Labor Laws?
Employment & Labor laws and regulations have been evolving rapidly in recent years, with new legislation being introduced at the local, state, and federal levels. These new laws can significantly impact how companies manage their HR teams and pose new challenges and compliance requirements for employers. Whether you’re an HR professional or a business owner, […]
Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule About Independent Contractors
Approximately 59 million people are working in the freelance economy right now. That amounts to roughly 36 percent of all workers in the US. The Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed regulation on October 11, 2022, that would reintroduce the “economic reality” standard for deciding whether a worker is an independent contractor or an […]
How to Cultivate a Culture of Ethics and Compliance
From Uber’s privacy intrusions to Well’s Fargo’s fraudulent sales practices – misconducts seem to linger within every organization. Despite putting several policies and procedures in place, why do organizations continue to relapse into corporate wrongdoings? The answer lingers somewhere along the lines of having an almost non-existent or weak compliance culture. Sure, no company is […]
Technology is Failing HR Compliance
As an HR professional, I’ve worked for high growth tech companies most of my career. Of course, each had its own challenges – ranging from talent acquisition, to retention, to total reward – but one of the biggest challenges we faced as a multistate employer was complying with federal, state, and local employment and labor […]
5 Reasons Your HR Team is Burning Out
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), burnout emerges from “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” While the issue of HR employee burnout has been prevalent for a long time, it was the rise of the pandemic that brought it to the limelight. A lengthy list of factors come together to trigger […]
HR Professional’s Guide: Unconscious Bias Hasn’t Just “Gone Away” Since The Pandemic Started
For years, access to a professional setting has not been the only issue employees faced at work. Once in the workplace, employees have experienced unreceptive and alienating environments related to differences in age, gender, sexuality, appearance, nationality, socio-economic background, education, and other distinctions. Many of us in HR easily recall how hot a topic […]
An HR Professional’s Guide: COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions
After the latest OSHA news, many HR professionals are still left scratching their heads as they attempt to manage exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine. Some of these professionals are still required by their local jurisdiction to have such a policy, while others may work for organizations that have voluntarily adopted such a requirement for their […]