The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Our mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most current and comprehensive resources, and to advance the profession by promoting HR’s essential, strategic role. Founded in 1948, SHRM represents more than 225,000 individual members in over 125 countries, and has a network of more than 575 affiliated chapters in the United States, as well as offices in China and India. For more info, visit: www.shrm.org

HR.com is a free website that is in business to help build great companies by connecting them to the knowledge and resources they need to effectively manage the people side of business. As the largest social network and online community of HR executives, we provide thousands of worldwide members with easy access to shared knowledge on best practices, trends and industry news in order to help them develop their most important asset – their people. For more info, visit: http://www.hr.com

WorldatWork is the world’s leading not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in total rewards, compensation, benefits, and work-life. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork focuses on human resources disciplines associated with attracting, motivating and retaining employees. Besides serving as the membership association of the professions, the WorldatWork family of organizations provides education, certification, publications, knowledge resources, surveys, conferences, research and networking. For more info, visit: http://www.worldatwork.org

Human Resource Executive Online® is an interactive resource designed specifically for directors and vice presidents of HR. Human Resource Executive Online® represents a wide variety of offerings that utilize the inherent strengths of interactive technologies such as timely information delivery, interactive opportunities and database capabilities to deliver users breaking news, unique insights and extensive reference materials. The full-time editorial staff works with exclusive partners such as Cornell University to ensure the editorial product is insightful, strategic and timely. For more info, visit: http://www.hreonline.com

EEOC enforces all of the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination listed below. EEOC also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies. For more info, visit: http://www.eeoc.gov/

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces all of the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination listed below. EEOC also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies. For more info, visit: http://www.osha.gov

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Administered by the Wage and Hour Division, the law requires employers of 50 or more employees to give up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for the birth or adoption of a child or for the serious illness of the employee or a spouse, child or parent. For more info, visit: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/statutes/fmla.htm

COBRA gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102 percent of the cost to the plan. For more info, visit: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_cobra.html

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes. For more info, visit: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/