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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers have legal obligations when handling reasonable accommodation requests from qualified individuals with disabilities. These requirements are designed to ensure fairness, confidentiality, and compliance while supporting employees' ability to perform their ...

HR Certifications:
Why Get An HR Certification3/12/2026

Why Get An HR Certification? The answer is simple: HR certification programs provide a simple way for HR professionals to increase their knowledge and forward their careers.

With an ever-growing list of demands, legal requirements, and technical expertise required of the typical HR manager, there has never been a greater need for Human Resources certification courses

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Investigations in workplaces are triggered by a complaint, allegation, a suspicion of misconduct, or any number of other reasons.  Some of the more common types of Workplace Investigations include:
  • Harassment
  • Discrimination
  • Safety
  • Theft, fraud, or misappropriation of resources
  • Misconduct
  • Regulatory agency inquiry
Harassment ...
PWFA:
What Is The PWFA?3/5/2026
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) requires that employers grant pregnant workers reasonable accommodations - temporary job changes needed to maintain a healthy pregnancy and, in some situations, to help an employee recover from or deal with post-pregnancy related medical conditions - unless doing so would ...
Under the ADA, employers can only require medical information that is job-related and consistent with business necessity.   This is true of prospective employees applying for a position, existing employees who may have an issue relating to their present ability to perform an essential function, or of employees returning from a leave. Handling these returns often requires expertise in ... More
Intermittent leave can be taken for any FMLA-qualifying reason, but some types require employer approval. For instance:
  • Employee's own serious health conditionFMLA Training & Certification Program
  • To care for a
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The FMLA provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12-month period for:
  • Birth of a child and bonding. For related prenatal or postpartum needs, employers should also refer to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
  • Placement of a child for adoption or foster care
  • Care for a spouse,
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Retirement Plans:
What Is A 401(k) Plan?3/5/2026

A 401(k) plan is a qualified retirement plan with a provision that allows plan participants to defer a portion of their salary into the plan on a tax-favored basis or on a designated Roth contribution basis.  ...

To qualify for the special tax treatment offered to qualified Retirement Plans by the Tax Code and IRS, a plan must meet certain qualification requirements, including:
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) allows workers and their families who lose their health benefits to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for a limited period under certain conditions such as:
  • Voluntary or involuntary job loss
  • Reduction in hours worked
  • Transition between jobs
  • Death in the family, divorce, and other life events
As employers, ...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) aims to provide equal opportunity to people with disabilities while preventing discrimination against them. It aims to protect people with disabilities from harassment while providing a level playing field for them in the professional world. Employers are required to make sure that people with disabilities:
  • Have equal opportunity to seek for and work in jobs for which they are
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According to ChatGPT, the most difficult area of HR administration often depends on the organization, industry, and HR team's experience — but broadly speaking, the most consistently challenging areas are Compliance and Employee Relations (Especially Investigations & Conflict Management). ChatGPT cites the reasons ...

The ADA protects a qualified individual with a disability, meaning:
  • They have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities,
  • Have a record of such an impairment, or
  • Are regarded as having such an impairment, and they can perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable
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Retirement Plans:
Record Retention For Retirement Plans3/4/2026

A Retirement Plan, by its very nature, requires large amounts of documentation, as well as the need to store and access certain information. 

Thus, a record-retention policy should be established that addresses both paper documents and electronic transactions. Plan documents and amendments should be kept for the life of the plan.  One never knows when the plan sponsor might get sued by a ...

Payroll:
Totalization Agreements3/3/2026

If a company has employees who are required to live and work in a country other than the United States, the taxation for social security changes. 

The employee may be covered by what is known as a totalization agreement or a binational social security agreement. The Payroll Department has to understand how these agreements came about, how they work and how to interpret the requirements in order to process the employee's taxation. 

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