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Blue Pencil Box, brought to you by fpSOLUTIONS, combines knowledge with technology to produce powerful compliance tools in a difficult legal area.When used correctly, non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements help employers prevent unfair competition and trade secret theft. The laws regulating these contracts have become

fpSolutions  What do astronauts, surgeons and human resource managers have in common? They all use checklists. Medical professionals do so to save lives. According to the World Health Organization, post-surgery checklists reduce deaths by 22 percent. According to a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management

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The news that California regulators can immediately begin enforcing new data privacy regulations will have an outsized impact on the PEO community. A surprise February 9 decision from a state appeals court pressed fast-forward on California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance that most employers thought wouldn’t hit home until late March. As

Digital nomad programs are increasingly popular visa schemes that your company may want to explore as a perk for employees. These programs give employees the opportunity to legally live and work remotely in a country for a set period while remaining employed by a company that is based outside of the host country. More countries are offering thi

Brad Kelso / FPS Lead Privacy Expert and Consultant  To reduce costs, US companies commonly outsource data processing to third parties vendors (“TPV’s) with HR, finance, and marketing functions leading the way. This usually includes sharing the business’ personal data into SaaS applications and ongoing data exchanges (e.g. API’s) that are