Legal compliance spans the entire employment cycle from recruiting to separation, and it frequently changes at the federal, state and local levels.
To highlight key lessons for compliance professionals, Wendy Harkness, the Nashville, Tenn.-based chief compliance officer at Harri, a human capital management platform, broke the employment cycle into manageable segments at the SHRM Talent Conference & Expo 2023 in Orlando, Fla., on April 18.
She emphasized that it's important to "foster a very good compliance culture" in your organization and tackle compliance information and tasks in "bite-sized chunks," rather than exhaustive, lengthy quantities.
"If you make it super simple, you will have a much better execution," Harkness said.
Legal Concerns Regarding Training
For liability reasons, many employers require workers to participate in training sessions on safety, conflict resolution and/or preventing harassment.
Depending on the state, it may be illegal to record an employee training session, especially if you don't get the employee's consent first and you're in an all-party consent state. "Any time you do training, you need to be buttoned up about how you record it," Harkness said.
She also mentioned the high rate of mass shootings in recent years, including ones at workplaces. "Do yourself a favor. Do the active shooter training" because if a real incident happens, "not only do you open yourself up to your folks getting hurt and possibly killed in this day and age,...
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