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Last week, we promised updated social media content and, this week, we delivered it. We also completed three new states and added three tasks to help employers prevent legal disputes and navigate through the internal investigation and arbitration/mediation process. For our union employers, we've included two important new policies.


New Last Week
See what was added to XpertHR last week...


XpertHR Wins "Award of Excellence"
XpertHR has been honored with its second product award in less than a week, this one by the Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) in the new website category.


Content Spotlight: Social Media

XpertHR thoroughly covers the recent and evolving area of social media and the workplace, particularly in our Employee Privacy content. For example, we provide information dealing with the recent push for legislation regarding password privacy protection on the federal and state level as well as the recent guidance from the National Labor Relations Board on whether employee use of social media may be protected by the National Labor Relations Act. Check out our full Employee Privacy section of the Employment Law Manual for in-depth analysis on this topic.



Beth P. Zoller

Beth Zoller, Esq., our Legal Editor for the Employee Privacy; EEO (Discrimination, Retaliation, Harassment and Affirmative Action); and Employee Handbooks - Work Rules - Employee Conduct sections of XpertHR, has more than ten years experience representing employers which she now brings enthusiastically to XpertHR to help you with your compliance challenges.


Coming Soon

New Liveflo, Worked Examples and More...
Check out what we'll be adding to XpertHR in the near future, including a Liveflo on Progressive Discipline, three more international guides, and several payroll-related worked examples.


State Content Growing Daily! Check Progress

XpertHR will provide subscribers with the most comprehensive coverage of federal, state and municipal law. This map details the status of our state content build - what has been completed and what will be completed in the coming weeks.


Contributor’s Spotlight

Michelle R. Barrett is a shareholder in the San Francisco office of Littler Mendelson, PC, a US-based law firm exclusively devoted to representing management in every aspect of labor and employment law. As co-chair of the firm's leave of absence and disability accommodation practice group, Ms. Barrett has extensive experience assisting clients with the design and administration of leave of absence and accommodation policies and procedures...
Read more...


State Highlights


XpertHR Adds 6 States to its Growing Coverage!
XpertHR is on track to offering all 50 states and Washington DC by the end of July. Our content is released on a rolling basis and we are now up to 37 states, with the completion of 3 full states in the past week. The quality of all XpertHR content is a testament to the expertise and dedication of our authors and editorial staff. Check out our coverage and authors for each state by clicking through to the state-specific articles below:


  • Maryland - completed July 6
  • Wisconsin - completed July 6
  • Oklahoma - completed July 6
  • Missouri - completed July 9
  • Florida - completed July 11
  • West Virginia - completed July 11

  • You can also keep track of our progress on our progress page.

    New Indiana Law Regarding Criminal Background Checks
    As of July 1, 2012, Indiana employers are now prohibited from conducting certain preemployment inquiries and are restricted in the types of information they can obtain from consumer reporting agencies and Indiana state courts with respect to background checks and criminal history, respectively.


    Federal Highlights


    Focus Is on Compliance After Supreme Court's Ruling on ACA
    Now that the ACA has been upheld, plan sponsors need to focus their efforts on implementing ACA requirements. Several tasks require immediate attention by plan sponsors.



    How should a job offer be withdrawn?


    A job offer should be withdrawn in writing. Even where an employer elects to verbally notify the prospective employee of the withdrawal, the employer should follow up the conversation with a written notification. Read more...
    Newly Added Policies and Documents

    Grievance Procedure for Collective Bargaining Agreement
    Employers may use this policy to communicate the grievance procedure for a collective bargaining agreement. If an employer has unionized employees, the grievance process will involve the employee, union representatives and management representatives.


    Management Rights Policy for Collective Bargaining Agreement
    Employers should use this policy to expressly reserve certain rights and responsibilities to management. A management rights policy should be communicated to employees when provided with the collective bargaining agreement.


    Email Policy for Collective Bargaining Agreement
    An employer may use this policy to set the parameters for use of communication resources, particularly electronic resources, such as email, internet services and social media.



    Did you know you can find all municipal employment law content by using our search bars?


    Municipal content, located within the Employment Law Manual's State Requirements section, can be accessed in two ways. To locate municipal content through the main search bar, enter the municipality as the query and filter the subsequent results by state or tool type to narrow down your results. Locate your municipality from directly within the Employment Law Manual by typing the municipality's name in the second, tool specific search bar, highlighted in pink.

    Editor’s Message

    Welcome to this, our third issue of Editor's Choice. We already have so much to share with you, two short weeks after our last issue!

    We continue to complete our states at a rather mind-boggling pace (at least, that's how it feels to our Legal Editors!) and are on track to have all 50 states and DC completed by the end of the month. That's over 2000 state articles, all written by the country's top employment law firms and attorneys, edited by our experienced staff of attorney editors, available only to our subscribers, and addressing a myriad of complex and challenging legal issues. The value of that expertise, all wrapped up in XpertHR, is really unmatched in the marketplace.

    Our last issue informed you of our FIRST product award - Gold for Best New Publication/Product in the Magnum Opus Awards. Now, I'm honored to say that we can already boast of a SECOND award - an Award for Publication Excellence (APEX) in the new website category of the APEX Awards program! We're excited to have this recognition of the outstanding caliber of our new product.

    This week we are also including a new feature to our Editor's Choice newsletter - Content Spotlight. In this regular feature, we will highlight topical areas of the site, and how our service helps you address your compliance challenges with these topics. We'll also introduce the Legal Editor responsible for that area of the site so you can get to know the committed and experienced individuals behind XpertHR - all part of the backbone of this impressive product.

    Last, but certainly not least, we've covered what you need to know about the flurry of state legislation regarding social media passwords. We've got you covered on this...enjoy!

    Peggy Carter-Ward
    Head of Content

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