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Online HR Resources from Insight

Many HR firms and government agencies have made their resources available on the World Wide Web. We've found that many of these tools are very worthwhile resources for professionals in the HR, Payroll and Benefits fields.

Human Resources General
Benefits
Payroll
Laws & Regulations
Compensation Management
Recruitment & Career Planning
Training & Development
Employee Records & Job Descriptions


HUMAN RESOURCES GENERAL


http://www.shrm.org/

This is the official site of the Society for Human Resources Management. Here you can find everything from HR news, HR links to HR related up-to-date laws as well as a large number of interesting articles and publications.

http://www.hr-assistant.com

This site, set up in association with the Greater Cincinnati chamber of Commerce provides a large number of tools facilitating Hr processes, lists upcoming HR related seminars and offers members the opportunity to have general HR questions confidentially answered by volunteer HR professionals.

http://hr.cch.com/

Here viewers can find out everything about Employment law, HR management, Payroll, Pensions, Unemployment as well as Benefits through a range of laws, publications, articles, tools as well as e-learning.

http://www.hr-guide.com/

An excellent site for any HR professional covering every aspect of Human Resources such as Training and Development, Benefits, Personnel Selection, Legal and MUCH MORE. Each section contains multiple links to all the appropriate internet resources around a particular topic.

 

BENEFITS

http://www.ebri.org/

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)'s mission is to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs through research and education - this site's comprehensive benefit related sections cover Press releases, Library services, Benefit fundamentals, Surveys and Publications.

http://www.willyancey.com/emp_law.htm#benefits

This site is dedicated to Benefits law: the information includes individual laws as well as surveys, useful links, labor standards and employment law directories.

http://www.ifebp.org/

This site of International Foundation of Employee Benefit plans provides IFEBP news, industry related news and daily news. The section "Resources" contains an online employee benefits research database and the section "Hot topics" features a list of hot topics based on member requests for information.

 

PAYROLL


http://www.americanpayroll.org/

This is probably the most comprehensive website in regards to payroll. The American payroll Organization's website promotes the overall understanding of the payroll profession for both payroll professionals and employees and includes useful payroll tools such as forms, links, training seminars, publications and regulations.

http://www.payroll-taxes.com/

On this site you will find information on both state and federal forms and rates, links, payroll calculators to check the accuracy of a paycheck; you can read publications and articles or join the Payroll discussion list to chat with the pros!

Finally you can also download tax software demos.

http://www.taxsites.com/

This site features every possible link pointing to tax related information. Links include everything from federal tax law, to state and local tax, international tax, tax forms, tax software, tax guides etc.



 

LAWS AND REGULATIONS


http://www.dol.gov/

The Department of Labor site contains all the laws and regulations, statistics and data related to labor - a very comprehensive site.

http://www.law.com/

This site is allows visitors to search for any topic within Corporate, Employment and IP law and contains a further division according to the different states. Individual

Law Cases, a bookstore and resources such as law libraries are also present on this site.

http://www.ssa.gov/

Amongst other services, here are just some of the things you can do at the Social Security online page:

Request a Social Security Statement 2001, read about Cost of Living Information, or Benefit Information Publications - Inform yourself about Benefit, Tax and Wage-Indexed Changes for 2001, Compute your own benefits estimate or Search the Frequently asked Questions database.

http://www.irs.gov/

The Internal Revenue Service site provides tax information, tax statistics, tax information for businesses as well as forms and publications.


http://www.hg.org/employ.html

The Hieros Gamos Labor Law site is an employment law site covering the United States as well as other countries.

http://www.legalengine.com/

A great site covering state, federal, county & city, international law as well as case law and much more !

http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/index.html

This very comprehensive legal covers all legal areas including employment law, small business law, tax law, immigration law etc. You can also find example forms and buy books on this site called Nolo Legal Encyclopedia

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt

This site contains the Americans with Disabilities Act

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/

This site contains retirement & health benefits and wage & hour workplace standards advisors and you can also ask questions to a DOL expert.

http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/whd_org.htm

This site provides employers and employees the information they need to understand Federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and recordkeeping requirements.

http://www.eeoc.gov/

This site by the U.S.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offers employers and employees all the information they might want to have around this topic.

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm

This site contains advice, information and forms regarding immigration, including H1b visa and green card information for employers

http://www.adata.org/

This comprehensive called: “Americans with Disability Act Technical Assistance” provides information, publications and technical assistance all around this topic.

http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/fmla.htm

This site contains the FMLA act as well as forms, fact sheets and frequently asked questions.




COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT


http://www.compensationlink.com/

Compensation Linkis an on-line service that unites principal compensation Internet based resources from Human Resource professionals around the world providing information on pay program design and administration, product listings, articles, conferences, seminars, and workshops.

http://www.shrm.org/whitepapers/comp.htm

A very comprehensive compensation toolkit, containing not only basic information about compensation, equal pay and alternative compensation, but it also offers a summarized version of the FLSA act.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/workers_compensation.html

This site by the Legal Information Institute contains the most important Federal and State laws regarding workers compensation



RECRUITMENT AND CAREER PLANNING


http://www.hrtools.com/

Offers great tools helping with job descriptions, employee screening, posting ads etc.

http://users.erols.com/gk3c/cltitle5.html

Extensive lists of recruitment related articles as well as upcoming recruitment events and seminars.

http://www.asktheemployer.com/

This site offers recruitment advice for both employers and employees as well as career advice and job-hunting strategies

http://www.hrlive.com/

This site features all the important job fairs as well as layoff reports and information about the top recruiting markets





TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT


http://www.astd.org/

This page created by the American Society for Training and Development offers tips, guidelines and articles as well as news related to Employee Training and Education.

http://www.brint.com/OrgLrng.htm

This site focuses on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

http://www.shrm.org/peoplewise/0500goldman.htm

This article examines the ever-changing Training Laws.




EMPLOYEE RECORDS AND JOB DESCRIPTIONS


http://www.shrm.org/whitepapers/descriptions/index.html

This site offers hundreds of sample job descriptions

http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Title_29/Part_825/29CFR825.500.htm

This site illustrates what records an employer must keep to comply with the FMLA