When people go to work, there are rules. Lots of them. The government makes rules about how employers have to treat their employees, things like how much they get paid, what happens if someone is being mean to them at work, how much time off they get when they’re sick, and much more.
These rules are called employment laws. There are over 1.5 million of them across the country. Every state can have its own rules on top of the national ones, and those rules change all the time, more than 10,000 of them changed just in 2025.
A company’s job is to follow all the rules that apply to its employees. When they don’t, they can get in serious trouble, like having to pay big fines, going to court, or losing good employees who don’t feel treated fairly.
Most companies don’t break the rules on purpose. They just don’t have the right tools to keep up. This whitepaper discusses the most common mistakes companies make and how to fix them.
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