ADA Accommodations
Workplace adjustments that may be required for qualified employees with disabilities. Employers should understand the interactive process and document accommodation decisions consistently.
HR Compliance Glossary
Workplace Compliance Terms Every Employer Should Know
Explore common HR, employment law, training, safety, leadership, and workplace compliance terms — with helpful links to fpSOLUTIONS products, training programs, and attorney-built resources.
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Affirmative Action Plan
A compliance program often required for certain federal contractors, including workforce analysis, placement goals, outreach efforts, and audit-readiness documentation.
AI Governance
Policies, controls, and training employers use to manage workplace artificial intelligence, including recruiting tools, productivity tools, privacy risks, and employee use of generative AI.
Arbitration Agreements
Contracts that may require workplace disputes to be resolved outside of court. Employers should monitor federal and state developments impacting enforceability.
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Blue Pencil Doctrine
A legal concept involving whether courts may modify or narrow restrictive covenant language rather than voiding an entire provision.
Break and Meal Period Compliance
Employer obligations involving rest periods, meal periods, waivers, premium pay, and recordkeeping requirements.
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California Harassment Prevention Training
Training that helps California employers educate employees and supervisors on harassment prevention, reporting, retaliation, and respectful workplace expectations.
Compliance Training
Employee and manager education focused on workplace rules, legal obligations, policies, and risk-reduction practices.
Conducting Workplace Investigations
A structured process for responding to complaints involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, misconduct, policy violations, or safety concerns.
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Deepfakes in the Workplace
AI-generated or manipulated audio, images, or video that may create workplace risks involving fraud, harassment, privacy, impersonation, and misinformation.
Documentation Best Practices
Practical standards for creating accurate, consistent, and defensible records related to performance, discipline, accommodations, leaves, complaints, and policy acknowledgments.
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Employee Handbook
A document that communicates company policies, workplace expectations, benefits information, and compliance obligations. Handbooks should be reviewed regularly and customized by state.
Employee Leave Compliance
Managing federal, state, and local leave obligations, including FMLA, paid sick leave, pregnancy leave, military leave, and other protected absences.
Ethics and Code of Conduct Training
Training that helps employees understand ethical decision-making, workplace expectations, reporting obligations, and standards of conduct.
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FERPA Training
Training that helps employees understand privacy obligations related to student education records and appropriate handling of protected information.
Forklift Safety Training
Training that helps employers educate operators and employees on powered industrial truck hazards, safe practices, and workplace safety expectations.
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GDPR Compliance
Privacy and data-handling obligations that may apply when organizations process personal data of individuals in the European Union.
Global Harassment Prevention Training
Training designed to communicate workplace conduct expectations across regions, cultures, and legal environments.
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Harassment Prevention Training
Training that teaches employees and supervisors how to recognize, prevent, report, and respond to inappropriate workplace conduct.
HIPAA Training
Training that helps employees understand healthcare privacy and security obligations, including proper handling of protected health information.
HR Compliance
The practice of aligning workplace policies, training, documentation, and employment decisions with applicable laws and regulations.
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Immigration Compliance
Employer obligations related to work authorization, Form I-9, audits, government inspections, and response planning.
Interactive Process
The employer-employee dialogue used to evaluate possible reasonable accommodations for disability, pregnancy, religion, or other protected needs.
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Leadership Development Training
Training that helps managers build skills in communication, coaching, accountability, trust-building, conflict management, and team performance.
LMS
A learning management system used to deliver, assign, track, and report on employee training completion.
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Managing with Compliance in Mind
Training supervisors to recognize workplace risk, document consistently, escalate concerns appropriately, and apply policies fairly.
Meal and Rest Break Compliance
Employer obligations related to break timing, duration, waiver, premium pay, and recordkeeping requirements.
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New York Harassment Prevention Training
Training that supports employer obligations under New York State and, where applicable, New York City workplace training requirements.
Non-Compete Agreements
Agreements that restrict certain post-employment competitive activity. These agreements are highly state-specific and continue to face legal and legislative scrutiny.
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OFCCP Compliance
Federal contractor obligations enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, including affirmative action and nondiscrimination requirements.
OSHA Compliance
Maintaining a safe workplace, training employees on hazards, documenting safety programs, and following applicable safety standards.
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PAGA
California’s Private Attorneys General Act, which allows employees to seek civil penalties for certain Labor Code violations.
Privacy and Data Protection Training
Training that helps employees understand how to collect, use, share, secure, and dispose of sensitive personal information appropriately.
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Reasonable Accommodation
A workplace modification or adjustment that enables an employee to perform essential job functions or access equal employment opportunities, unless it creates undue hardship.
Restrictive Covenants
Contract provisions such as non-competes, non-solicits, confidentiality clauses, and trade secret protections.
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Safety Training
Training that helps employees understand workplace hazards, safe work practices, reporting procedures, emergency response, and applicable safety requirements.
SCORM Training
eLearning content packaged to work within compatible learning management systems, allowing employers to track completion and learner progress.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Training on prohibited conduct, reporting options, bystander responsibilities, retaliation prevention, and respectful workplace expectations.
State-Specific Compliance
Adjusting workplace policies, training, and employment practices to reflect the laws of each state where employees work.
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Title VII Training
Training that helps employees and supervisors understand federal anti-discrimination protections involving race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
Training Compliance Tracking
Monitoring course assignments, completions, deadlines, certificates, and audit-ready training records.
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Wage and Hour Compliance
Compliance involving minimum wage, overtime, exempt classification, timekeeping, meal and rest breaks, final pay, scheduling rules, and wage statements.
Workplace Accommodations
Workplace adjustments involving schedule changes, equipment, leave, modified duties, or policy modifications.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Policies, training, reporting procedures, hazard assessments, and response planning designed to reduce workplace violence risks.
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