Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook

Is everyone on your payroll properly classified as exempt or non-exempt? Are you illegally restricting off-duty employee activity? Are your non-compete agreements worth the paper they’re printed on? Would your leave policies withstand an assault by a plaintiff’s attorney? Is your employment application a lawsuit waiting to happen? Will your monitoring of employee communications hold up to a jury’s scrutiny?

Don't wait for agency watchdogs or disgruntled employees to discover your policy flaws. Find and fix problems now with the Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook. This new reference takes the guesswork and risk out of:

• Assessing your policies and procedures
• Spotting potentially illegal activities
• Correcting workplace rules and regulations

Proactive HR professionals don't "assume" anything... they audit!

How it Works
The Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook asks questions about your current HR and other workplace practices. You simply answer each one and then compare your answers to the corresponding plain-English analysis.

No conflict? No problem. But if your current procedures contradict the Workbook’s advice, you’ve just red-flagged a potential trouble spot in time to correct it.

The Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook is perfect for uncovering and correcting potential problems with your:

• Employee handbook
• Written policies
• Job descriptions
• Personnel files
• Recordkeeping practices
• Hiring procedures
• Employee communications
• And much more!

Don’t assume… Audit your employment practices top to bottom with Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook, and target vulnerable policy areas for corrective action.

Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook Modules

The Employment Practices Self-Audit Workbook helps you find and correct policy and procedure problems in dozens of areas, so you rest easy knowing you've achieved compliance. It walks you though your audit of:

I. Recruitment

• Recruiting processes
• Off-site recruiting
• Selection

II. Hiring Practices

• Job descriptions
• Employment applications
• Uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures
• Application retention
• Application disclaimers
• Background checks
• EEO information
• Retaliation avoidance
• Interviewing procedures and documents
• Work status documentation
• Applicant testing
• Employment offer procedures
• Employment rejection procedures
• Hiring policies
• Orientation procedures
• Training procedures

III. Workplace Practices

• Employee handbooks
• Procedure manuals
• Training
• Conflict resolution
• Drug-free workplace policy
• DOT drug testing
• Surveillance
• Workplace violence

IV. Diversity/Affirmative Action

• Title VII applicability
• Exceptions to title VII
• Non-construction federal contractors
• Exempt from EEO-1 compliance
• Affirmative action
• Job group analysis
• Distribution of minorities and women
• Applicant pool
• Placement goals
• Identifying problem areas
• Action oriented programs
• Responsibility for the plan
• National origin
• I-9 form
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• Veteran status

V. Documentation

• Recordkeeping
• Maintenance of personnel/ADA files
• Performance evaluations
• Progressive discipline
• Record retention

VI. Payment Practices and Compensation

• Employee classification
• Child labor
• Hours worked
• Minimum, living, and prevailing wages
• Overtime exemptions
• Deductions from pay
• Miscellaneous overtime issues
• Preparedness for DOL audits
• State-specific wage and hour laws

VII. Benefits

• Health benefits
• Retirement plan/pension plans, including 401(k), 403(b), 457(b) and defined benefit plans
• Leave of absence
• COBRA

VIII. Termination and Post-Employment Practices

• Voluntary resignation
• Termination
• Downsizing
• Severance arrangements
• Waiver of liability and release of claims
• Outplacement services
• Providing references
• Unemployment compensation proceedings
• Exit interviews