Employment Compliance and Policies

Employment law touches every business that has employees. The requirements are detailed, they change, and the cost of getting them wrong, an EEOC charge, a wage and hour claim, a wrongful termination suit, is almost always higher than the cost of getting them right.

Most employment compliance problems for businesses don’t start with bad intent. They start with a policy that wasn’t updated, a job classification that hasn’t been reviewed since the company was smaller, a manager who made a real-time decision without guidance, or an employee handbook that no longer reflects how the business actually operates. By the time the problem is visible, the decisions that created it were made months or years ago.

Victoria helps Georgia businesses build and maintain the employment compliance infrastructure that protects them: employee handbooks and policies that are current, accurate, and legally sound; job classification reviews that ensure exempt and non-exempt status hold up under federal and state law; offer letters and employment agreements that create the right framework at hiring; non-compete and non-solicitation agreements that are enforceable under Georgia law; and manager training so the people making real-time decisions aren’t inadvertently creating real-time problems.

This work lives in both corporate compliance and employment law at once, and it’s an area where Victoria’s in-house experience is directly relevant. As General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, she built and maintained employment compliance programs for large, multi-state companies. She understands both the legal requirements and the operational reality of actually implementing them.

*Note: For active employment disputes, EEOC charges, discrimination claims, harassment investigations, severance negotiations, see the Employment Counsel practice area.*