FEBRUARY RELEASE ROUNDUP

Quickly Access Digital Posters From the GovDocs Postings Dashboard + Paid Leave Updates

By GovDocs Product Team | February 1, 2025

A February 2025 summary of GovDocs’ feature enhancements, technology innovations, and product releases designed to simplify daily, weekly, and monthly tasks for HR and compliance professionals, while minimizing noncompliance risks.

Paid Leave: Jurisdiction FAQ’s and/or Guidance

Access Agency Interpretations of Paid Leave Laws

HR and Compliance teams should not be burdened with searching for accurate government agency websites to understand and interpret paid leave laws. GovDocs Paid Leave solution has location-specific links to guidance, help, and FAQs published by a jurisdiction’s government authorities.

Helping HR teams:

Respond appropriately to employee situations around paid leave laws with direct understanding provided by the agency enforcing the laws.
Apply paid leave laws to their organization with location-specific guidance at their fingertips.

The jurisdiction FAQ’s and/or Guidance Help link directly to local or state level websites of agencies responsible for enforcing paid leave laws, and are vetted by the GovDocs Employment Law and Compliance Team to ensure accuracy. Organizations can be confident they are on the right website for the correct jurisdictional information.

Paid Leave: Employer Succession

Understand Requirements for Transfer of Paid Leave Balances

When an organization is acquired, regardless of being on the receiving end or selling end, HR and Compliance teams face challenges, including ensuring that all transfer of paid leave is accurately addressed based on the jurisdictional requirements. This includes impacts on labor law postings, benefits, compensation, and the risk of impacting employee morale paired with noncompliance. GovDocs Paid Leave solution provides jurisdiction-specific requirements for the transfer of sick leave balance to successor employer.

Helping HR teams:

Breakdown the requirements for transfer of earned but unused paid leave for employees who remain with a successor employer after a sale or transfer of a business.
Answer employee questions about accrued but unused paid sick leave after a new owner takes over.
Communicate to new and old employees in easy-to-understand terms the requirements moving forward.

Paid Leave: Coordinated Jurisdictions

Determine How to Coordinate Paid Leave Laws in a Jurisdiction

HR Teams face challenges in determining how to coordinate multiple paid sick leave laws in the same jurisdiction – such as when a state has a paid sick leave law but the city in that state in which the employee works also has a paid sick leave ordinance. Misalignment between these laws can lead to employee dissatisfaction paired with legal risks.

GovDocs paid leave product includes a summary section indicating how any local paid leave law coordinates with a county or state law where there are overlapping paid leave laws. HR teams can easily toggle between the two laws to review both and determine the appropriate leave requirements.

Helping HR teams:

Understand and apply appropriate benefits to employees based on coordination of multiple leave laws.
Answer employee questions with accurately as they apply to paid leave.
Confirm an employer’s paid leave policy is compliant with multiple laws applicable in a jurisdiction.

✨WHAT’S UPDATED✨

Digital Poster Program

Seamlessly Access Digital Posters with One-Click

If you have employees working remotely across the country, they still need access to updated labor law posters. With the shift to remote and hybrid work models, our digital solution, the Intranet Poster Program, helps you efficiently manage compliance for employees working outside the office.

GovDocs Intranet Poster Program gives organizations a unique URL that is quickly accessible directly from the GovDocs Labor Law Postings Dashboard. With access to this URL directly from the GovDocs platform, HR teams can:

Set it up on a company portal, digital workspace, or wherever employees go for information.
Gain peace of mind with the latest posters added whenever a change occurs.
Offer employees easy access to federal, state, county, and city postings.