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150 Things HR Professionals Worry About

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    So HR just hires people, right? If you work in an HR role, you’re shaking your head. ThinkHR compiled the following list of 150 topics that HR professionals handle. Whirks’ mission is to keep you out of the grind so you can focus on your company’s WHY – the passion behind your organization. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or unsure, you don’t have to go it alone – schedule an appointment with our HRO Manager to talk through the outsourcing options that make sense for your organization. 

    1. Accidents and injuries
    2. Adverse impact
    3. Affirmative action
    4. Age discrimination
    5. Alcohol abuse
    6. Applicant references
    7. Applicant testing
    8. Arbitration agreements
    9. Attendance
    10. Audits
    11. Background checks
    12. Ban-the-Box
    13. Benefits procurement and
      administration
    14. Bonus payments
    15. Business/travel expenses
    16. Cafeteria plans
    17. Career planning
    18. Child labor
    19. COBRA
    20. Company culture
    21. Compensation
    22. Complaints and
      investigations
    23. Compliance review
    24. Compliance posters
    25. Contingent workers
    26. Credit reports
    27. Cybersecurity awareness/
      training
    28. Dating (inter-office)
    29. Disability insurance
    30. Discipline
    31. Discrimination
    32. Dress codes
    33. Drivers
    34. Drug-free workplace
    35. EEO-1 reporting
    36. Email
    37. Emergency response
      preparation
    38. Employee handbooks
    39. Employee engagement
    40. Employee loans
    41. Employee Retirement
      Income Security Act
      (ERISA)
    42. Employee surveys
    43. Employment contracts
    44. Equal pay/comparable
      worth
    45. Ergonomics
    46. Exit interviews
    47. Fair Credit Reporting Act
      (FCRA)
    48. Fair employment practices
    49. Fair Labor Standards Act
      (FLSA)
    50. Family and Medical Leave
      Act (FMLA)
    51. Flexible hours
    52. Gender identity and
      sexual orientation
      discrimination
    53. Government contractor
      requirements
    54. Grievances
    55. Health and safety
    56. Health Care Reform
      (Affordable Care Act)
    57. Health Insurance
      Portability and
      Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    58. Hiring
    59. Holidays
    60. Homeworkers/
      telecommuters
    61. Independent contractors
    62. Interns
    63. Interviews
    64. Investigations
    65. Job descriptions
    66. Layoffs
    67. Leaves of absence
    68. Litigation support
    69. Marital status
    70. Maternity and pregnancy
    71. Medical leave
    72. Mergers and acquisitions support
    73. Minimum wage
    74. Motivation
    75. National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
    1. National origin
      discrimination
    2. Nepotism
    3. New hire reporting
    4. Noncompetition
      agreements
    5. Office parties
    6. Orientation/onboarding
    7. Occupational Safety and
      Health Act (OSH Act)
    8. Outplacement
    9. Overtime
    10. Parental leave
    11. Part-time employees
    12. Payroll
    13. Pensions
    14. Performance
      management
    15. Personality assessments
    16. Personnel files
    17. Personnel policies/
      manuals
    18. Physical examinations
    19. Posting and
      recordkeeping
    20. Pre-employment medical
      inquiries
    21. Pregnancy discrimination
    22. Prevailing wage
    23. Privacy
    24. Quality improvement
    25. Racial discrimination
    26. Recruiters
    27. Religious discrimination
    28. Religious holidays
    29. Rest and meal periods
    30. Retaliation
    31. Retention of records
    32. Retirement
    33. Return to work
    34. Salary Inquiries and Salary
      Reviews
    35. Salary surveys
    36. Sales compensation
    37. Sales personnel
      exemption
    38. Searches
    39. Security
    40. Seniority
    41. Severance pay
    42. Sex discrimination
    43. Sexual harassment
    44. Show-up pay
    45. Sick leave
    46. Social media use
    47. Solicitation
    48. Strategic HR
    49. Subpoenas
    50. Succession planning
    51. Suggestion systems
    52. Summary plan
      descriptions
    53. Surveillance
    54. Teamwork
    55. Termination
    56. Time keeping
    57. Tip credits
    58. Trade secrets
    59. Training
    60. Travel time
    61. Turnover
    62. Unemployment
      compensation
    63. Unions
    64. Vacations
    65. Violence
    66. Wage and hour
    67. WARN Act
    68. Wellness programs
    69. Whistleblowing
    70. White collar overtime
      exemptions
    71. Withholding, deductions,
      and taxes
    72. Workers’ compensation
    73. Workplace bullying
    74. Work for hire doctrine
    75. Wrongful termination
      claims
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