150 Things HR Professionals Worry About
January 27th, 2020 | 1 min. read
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.
- Accidents and injuries
- Adverse impact
- Affirmative action
- Age discrimination
- Alcohol abuse
- Applicant references
- Applicant testing
- Arbitration agreements
- Attendance
- Audits
- Background checks
- Ban-the-Box
- Benefits procurement and
administration - Bonus payments
- Business/travel expenses
- Cafeteria plans
- Career planning
- Child labor
- COBRA
- Company culture
- Compensation
- Complaints and
investigations - Compliance review
- Compliance posters
- Contingent workers
- Credit reports
- Cybersecurity awareness/
training - Dating (inter-office)
- Disability insurance
- Discipline
- Discrimination
- Dress codes
- Drivers
- Drug-free workplace
- EEO-1 reporting
- Emergency response
preparation - Employee handbooks
- Employee engagement
- Employee loans
- Employee Retirement
Income Security Act
(ERISA) - Employee surveys
- Employment contracts
- Equal pay/comparable
worth - Ergonomics
- Exit interviews
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
(FCRA) - Fair employment practices
- Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA) - Family and Medical Leave
Act (FMLA) - Flexible hours
- Gender identity and
sexual orientation
discrimination - Government contractor
requirements - Grievances
- Health and safety
- Health Care Reform
(Affordable Care Act) - Health Insurance
Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) - Hiring
- Holidays
- Homeworkers/
telecommuters - Independent contractors
- Interns
- Interviews
- Investigations
- Job descriptions
- Layoffs
- Leaves of absence
- Litigation support
- Marital status
- Maternity and pregnancy
- Medical leave
- Mergers and acquisitions support
- Minimum wage
- Motivation
- National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
- National origin
discrimination - Nepotism
- New hire reporting
- Noncompetition
agreements - Office parties
- Orientation/onboarding
- Occupational Safety and
Health Act (OSH Act) - Outplacement
- Overtime
- Parental leave
- Part-time employees
- Payroll
- Pensions
- Performance
management - Personality assessments
- Personnel files
- Personnel policies/
manuals - Physical examinations
- Posting and
recordkeeping - Pre-employment medical
inquiries - Pregnancy discrimination
- Prevailing wage
- Privacy
- Quality improvement
- Racial discrimination
- Recruiters
- Religious discrimination
- Religious holidays
- Rest and meal periods
- Retaliation
- Retention of records
- Retirement
- Return to work
- Salary Inquiries and Salary
Reviews - Salary surveys
- Sales compensation
- Sales personnel
exemption - Searches
- Security
- Seniority
- Severance pay
- Sex discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Show-up pay
- Sick leave
- Social media use
- Solicitation
- Strategic HR
- Subpoenas
- Succession planning
- Suggestion systems
- Summary plan
descriptions - Surveillance
- Teamwork
- Termination
- Time keeping
- Tip credits
- Trade secrets
- Training
- Travel time
- Turnover
- Unemployment
compensation - Unions
- Vacations
- Violence
- Wage and hour
- WARN Act
- Wellness programs
- Whistleblowing
- White collar overtime
exemptions - Withholding, deductions,
and taxes - Workers’ compensation
- Workplace bullying
- Work for hire doctrine
- Wrongful termination
claims
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