STAY PROACTIVE ABOUT COMPLIANCE

Plan, Prevent and Protect

This is name of the program the Department of Labor is now using to regulate employers compliance with federal laws with respect to wage and hour, anti-discrimination, and safety. But that’s not all it is. It’s an idea, a seed that should be planted in the heads of HR and payroll managers everywhere. Planning, preventing and protecting against these issues before they become a problem is a progressive way to handle your employee information and your employees.

Compliance is a hot topic nowadays. Millions of dollars worth of lawsuits are moving through the court systems just on the topic of compliance alone. And recent court decisions have proven that it isn’t necessary to be willfully negligent to be confronted with serious and very expensive problems. Many companies presume that they are adhering to strict regulation guidelines when in fact they’re at fault for violating a compliance specification located somewhere in the fine print.

An average of 450 employment lawsuits is filed in the U.S. each day, and 57% of companies have been named as defendants in at least one employment related lawsuit in the past five years. Lawsuits by disgruntled employees are one problem. But nowadays, a company can face suits from candidates who were never hired, as well as from former employees months after termination.

How Ascentis HR helps you manage compliance

Ascentis HR plays a key role in preventing violations by ensuring that requirements are automatically monitored and fulfilled, through compliance automation. The best defense against an alleged violation is an accurate reporting system and automatic documentation of everything related to a specific case. Ascentis HR can reduce the likelihood of error as well as reduce the workload for HR staff in collecting compliance information by providing compliance automation. The powerful report wizard can quickly generate reports such as EEO-1, VETS-100 and OSHA incidents reducing time spent on generating these reports as well as covering any liabilities in case of lawsuits.

Ascentis HR can be a repository of necessary information when compliance becomes an issue. Storing electronic records of disciplinary actions, copies of internal emails and records and more, keep you protected and keep the data safe from loss as well as prying eyes.

Additionally, federal laws require a number of compliance reports throughout the year. These can be time consuming to prepare manually. However, with Ascentis HR, these reports take just minutes. Ascentis HR alerts you, proactively, that all employee documentation during onboarding is completed. Additional alerts can be set as reminders, so that no HR compliance related process is forgotten.

Stay in compliance with federal and state laws with Ascentis HR. Learn more about Ascentis HR by filling out this short form (* fields required) or call us at 1.800.229.2713.