State Law Chart Builder

Available through HR Hero!

HR professionals, legal counselors, and multi-state businesses can easily navigate complex laws with BLR’s State Law Chart Builder. Easily navigate complex laws in easy-to-understand language, with current, accurate, and reliable information. Make informed decisions, reduce risks, and ensure compliance while also keeping outside legal costs low.

Simplifying Complex Laws

• Ensure legal compliance
• Effectively share insights with stakeholders
• Inform your decision-making
• Keep outside legal costs low
• Provide transparency and security for employees
• Easy access to previously created charts
  
  

Compare and Contrast State Requirements

• Information repository
• Provides concise summaries of compliance requirements
• Due diligence and candidate comparison
• High-level multi-state topic comparison – great if you have employees in various states
• Save and export with automatic updates
• User-friendly interface with sorting and search
  
  

What sets us apart?

BLR's State Law Chart Builder simplifies legal compliance with clear, updated information, enabling cost-effective and informed decision-making for HR and legal professionals. Our intuitive platform offers comprehensive multi-state law comparisons, enhancing transparency and employee satisfaction.

Also available as part of an HR Hero subscription!

State Law Chart Builder

Get state-specific employment law answers in just a couple of easy steps.

State Law Chart Builder explains HR’s state law rights and obligations in over 100 areas of employee management, and in all 50 states and Canada, with just a few mouse clicks. It’s HR’s online tool for maintaining legally safe and effective employment practices wherever you have a workforce.

From pre-employment arrest and conviction inquiries to final paychecks, there’s a different state law or regulation for almost every aspect of the employer-employee relationship.

Step 1: For answers to how a state law or regulation affects your policies and procedures, just log on to State Law Chart Builder and choose from a menu of over 100 challenging areas:

Step 2: Then, select the states in which you operate.

Step 3: State Law Chart Builder instantly provides a side-by-side fast-read of exactly what’s required of HR under state law, what you can demand of employees and applicants, and what’s strictly forbidden. All of this is available at your fingertips so you can avoid workplace conflict, expensive fines and penalties, or even lawsuits. 

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State Law Chart Builder

State Law Chart Builder compares laws and regulations in every state under 75 of the most complicated and legally treacherous areas of employee management. Then, it presents simple, easy-reading summaries of what employers can and cannot do, so you can make better and more confident policy and practice decisions.

• Affirmative Action
• Arrests and Convictions
• Background Checks
• Benefits for Unmarried Partners
• Breaks/Meal Periods
• Cell Phone Use/Distracted Driving
• Child Labor
• Consumer Credit Reports and Driving Records
• Deductions from Pay/Garnishment
• Direct Deposit
• Discrimination and Harassment
• Drug and Alcohol Testing
• Employee Records
• Employee Training
• Employment at Will
• Family and Medical Leave
• Final Paycheck
• Identity Theft
• Independent Contractors/Employee Classification
• Immigration
• Jury Duty/Witness Service Leave
• Labor Organizing
• Medical and Genetic Testing and Discrimination
• Medical Marijuana
• Medical Maternity: Discrimination, Leave, Benefits
• Military Leave
• Minimum Wage
• New-Hire Reporting
• Noncompete Agreements
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Off-Duty Conduct
• Overtime
• Payment of Commissions
• Payout of Vacation/Sick Pay
• Polygraph Testing
• Posters/Notices
• Pre-employment Inquiries
• Privacy
• Reductions in Force and WARN
• References
• Sick Leave and Other Paid Time Off
• Small Necessities Leave
• Smoking/Tobacco
• Title VII Equivalents
• Voting
• Wage Payment
• Weapons
• Whistleblowing
• Workers’ Compensation

Bonus state law resources:

• State/Local Equal Employment Opportunity
• Fair Employment Laws
• Workers’ Compensation
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Health Insurance Continuation
• Group Life Insurance
• State Taxation of Benefits
• Disability Insurance
• Unemployment Comp Coverage, Exclusions, Tax Rates  & Benefits