Employers need guidance and support to identify and manage the risks their businesses face. The Hotline provides:

• Unlimited phone and email access to our team of attorneys with employment law and risk management backgrounds.
• Advice based on applicable laws, HR best practices, what other employers are doing, and your specific risk tolerance.
• Recommendations, not just options.
• The ability to work with the same attorney until your issue or concern is resolved.
• A reduction in the amount of time you spend working with outside counsel.
• Hundreds of proprietary documents that address commonly occurring scenarios and, if we don’t have a template, suggested minor revisions to short documents or language that you send us for review.

Employee handbooks are an essential component of the employment process, which is why they must be consistent, compliant, and culturally appropriate. However, HR teams often don’t have the time or resources to maintain a handbook that stays current with legal development and best practices trends. Our Employer Solutions team works directly with you to understand your organization’s culture and needs in order to create a handbook uniquely tailored to your business. Additionally, if we draft your handbook, for a low annual fee we can keep it current and compliant long into the future.

Effective and targeted training can be one of the most impactful ways to improve performance, reinforce compliance, and increase confidence, but it can be difficult to find reliable resources. We work directly with you to create a unique live (in-person or virtual) training curriculum that is aligned with your culture and specific needs. Our Employer Solutions team has multiple training options designed to meet your needs, including but not limited to:

• Harassment and respectful workplace
• Fundamental leadership skills
• Building trust
• Coaching, conflict management, and difficult conversations
• Discipline and termination
• Effective employee evaluations
• Interviewing and hiring skills
• ADA, FMLA, work comp, and leave of absence issues
• Wage and hour issues
• Workplace violence
• Recordkeeping and reporting
• Contract review

If you work directly with a governmental entity or provide goods or services to other companies that work on governmental contracts, you will need to develop an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). Doing so requires many things, including a formal plan document along with several lengthy and complex statistical analyses. Making mistakes can jeopardize your revenue, which is why compliance is critical. Our Employer Solutions team works directly with you to help you meet your AAP needs, including basic AAP compliance, compensation equity analysis, and adverse selection analysis.

Leave management is top of mind and a challenge for many employers, especially those operating in multiple states. Our leave management service offering provides comprehensive, accessible, and understandable summaries of the operational and compliance components of every existing state, county, and city leave law. Additionally, subscribers will receive monthly updates containing full summaries of all leave law legislative activity across the country, including state, county, and municipal.

For those employers that have a need not identified through our other services, we offer custom consulting in areas such as wage and hour compliance audits, leave program design and compliance, I-9 audits, exempt/nonexempt determinations, and more.