What this service is:

Human Resources Library, the complete, must-have HR resource, provides regularly updated information on policies, laws, regulations, and cases, as well as expert analyses and guidance, for human resources professionals, employment attorneys, corporate legal departments, and anyone who writes or reviews employment policies.

What it helps you do:

• Get timesaving, one-stop access to a comprehensive collection of practical documents that can be adapted to your specific needs.
• Make decisions with confidence by having the information you need right at your fingertips. You'll have comprehensive, plain-English coverage of virtually every issue HR departments must address, in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.
• Know what the experts know with the newly-added Insight & Analysis, exclusive articles by HR and legal experts and practitioners on such topics as compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, nondiscrimination, litigation, technology, and the future of the workplace.
• Save time and solve problems quickly with Fast Answers™, a new Web-based interactive tool that provides fast and reliable answers to 2,400 questions on thousands of everyday HR topics, courtesy of a user-friendly, natural-language query engine. There's no special search syntax to learn to get the answers you need in 20 seconds, versus minutes or hours of research.
• Consult the full text of more than 10,000 pertinent legal decisions from federal and state courts and administrative bodies. Easy-to-use search options speed you between cases and where they're cited or discussed in the Library's extensive contents.
• Stay completely informed with hot-off-the-press news and information on legislative developments, court decisions, industry trends, and more, updated and distributed through newsletters, e-mails, and Websites.
• Maintain compliance with the law by easily accessing summaries of state and federal statutes, along with an introduction to global HR management.
• Write comprehensive job descriptions quickly and easily with Job Descriptions.com (included in your subscription), a software tool that enables you to create legally appropriate, customized job descriptions using a library of thousands of job descriptions and a powerful question-and-answer format that identifies specific job requirements.
• Learn from other companies' problems and solutions, and benchmark your achievements with authoritative Bloomberg BNA surveys.
• Plan strategically. Human Resources Library provides tools for companies of all sizes, as well as new companies needing all-in-one HR solutions.
• Simultaneously search up to 5 states for useful comparative information with the Library's Quick Search by state. You can also save your searches.
• Have the most organized, all-in-one HR information solution available, with more forms, documents, and templates than ever before:
• 10,000 pertinent federal and state cases
• 1,000 chapters of editorial analyses
• 600 interactive federal government forms and notices
• 50 states' forms for new hires and first reports of injury
• 100 state law comparison charts
• 400 chapters of state law summaries
• 450 sample policies
• 400 state and federal posters
• 325 model HR forms
• 190 checklists and policy pointers
• 100 chapters in the policy handbook
• Dozens of exclusive BNA surveys and special reports

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print notification Bulletin to Management is issued weekly and indexed quarterly, cumulating annually.

Web reference material Human Resources Library is updated regularly, includes notification and offers an e-mail update service.

• Absenteeism and turnover
• Affirmative action/diversity
• Age bias and compulsory retirement
• Benefit plans
• Communicating policy
• Compensation administration
• Contract negotiation and enforcement
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Employment-at-will
• Employment discrimination
• Employment testing
• Family and medical leave
• Fetal protection
• Flexible employment
• Handling grievances
• Health care cost management
• Hiring in unionized settings
• Hours of work
• Incentive systems
• Independent contractors
• Job evaluation
• Layoffs and shutdowns
• Minimum wage
• Overtime pay
• Pay equity
• Pay systems
• Payroll laws and taxes
• Pension law/ERISA
• Performance and productivity
• Persons with disabilities
• Personnel recordkeeping
• Recruitment and selection
• Retention
• Safety and health
• Sexual harassment
• Strikes and slowdowns
• Temporary and leased workers
• Termination and outplacement
• Training and employee education
• Union organizing
• Work and family
• Work rules and discipline
• Workers' compensation