by the Brightmine Editorial Team
Summary
This guide helps Human Resources transition from a task-based role to one as an employer’s strategic business partner by highlighting best practices in developing work rules, maintaining employee records, conducting internal audits and understanding recordkeeping and posting requirements.
In this guide, learn about:
- Introduction
- Employee lifecycle management
- Workforce planning
- Recruitment
- Offers and onboarding
- Retention
- Training and development
- Separation
- HR as a strategic partner
- Developing work rules
- Developing legally required work rules
- Developing work rules as a means of reserving employer rights
- Developing other work rules as a matter of best practices
- Implementing and distributing work rules
- Wage and hour and internal HR audits
- DOL wage and hour audits
- Internal HR audits
- Employment practices liability insurance
- Maintaining employee personnel records
- Employee medical files
- Employee Form I‑9 records
- Investigation records and legal files
- Employee personnel file
- Granting access to employee personnel records
- Third‑party access to employees’ personnel records
- Employees’ access to their personnel record
- Record retention
- Required federal postings
- Future developments
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