HR Compliance Consulting

Find the gaps before someone else does.

Most small businesses are out of compliance somewhere and don't know it. Usually it stays quiet until a complaint, an audit, or a departing employee brings it into the open.

What We Review

Where the problems usually are.

In twenty years of doing this, the same handful of issues come up again and again at small companies.

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Employee handbook

Missing entirely, or written years ago and never updated. Either way it isn't doing the job it exists to do.

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Employee classification

Exempt versus non-exempt, and employee versus contractor. Getting these wrong is one of the more expensive mistakes available.

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Documentation practices

Performance issues that live in someone's memory instead of a file. That gap shows up at the worst possible moment.

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Leave administration

FMLA, ADA accommodations, and state leave requirements. The interaction between them trips up experienced HR people, let alone owners handling it themselves.

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Multi-state exposure

Hiring one remote employee in a new state brings that state's wage, leave, and notice rules with it.

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Records and postings

I-9s, personnel file practices, retention schedules, and the required postings almost nobody has current.

A note on scope: HR Success Partners provides HR consulting, not legal advice, and this page is general information rather than guidance for your specific situation. For matters that need a legal opinion, I work alongside your employment counsel or can refer you to someone.
How A Compliance Review Works

Four steps, usually two to three weeks.

1

We gather what exists

Handbook, offer letters, job descriptions, policies, personnel file practices. Whatever you have, in whatever shape it's in.

2

I review it against current law

Federal requirements, Michigan requirements, and any other state where you have employees.

3

You get a prioritized findings report

Not a hundred-page document nobody reads. A clear list sorted by actual risk, so you know what to fix this month versus this year.

4

We fix what needs fixing

I can hand you the report and step back, or stay on and do the remediation work. Your call.

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Common Findings
Handbook
The single most common gap. Either missing, or old enough that its policies no longer match current law.
Classification
Salaried does not automatically mean exempt. This one surfaces constantly and carries real back-pay exposure.
Documentation
Termination decisions that were probably correct but have nothing in writing to support them.
Start With The Free Version

See where you stand in two minutes.

The self-audit walks you through the same categories a full review covers. It won't catch everything, but it will tell you whether you need to worry.