San Jose Employment Practices Audit Attorney

Santa Clara County HR Audit Lawyer

Protecting your company from unwanted liability and legal complications begins with a thorough review of hiring practices and company employment policies.

At Phillip J. Griego & Associates, our San Jose employment law attorneys work closely with businesses to review employment policies, procedures, and practices in light of human resources compliance requirements. Whether you operate a start-up venture in Silicon Valley or have an established San Jose business, our employment practices audit can benefit your firm.

Contact an HR audit lawyer at Phillip J. Griego & Associates to schedule an appointment. We have worked with many Silicon Valley technology companies. Our HR lawyers can conduct an employment practices audit that is relevant to the unique nature of your business.

Avoiding Unwanted Liability for Your Company
The Employment Practices Audit

An employment practices audit will review:

• Employee classifications (exempt and non-exempt status, wage and hour issues)
• Employment documentation
• Hiring and training
• Employment policies and procedures

In each area, our attorneys work to limit your business’s exposure to charges of discrimination, wage violations, or unfair business practices. We can advise you on:

• The use of offer letters and employment agreements
• Processes for informing new hires of employee benefits
• Strategies for ensuring new hires are aware of company expectations, job duties and scope of work
• The use of an outside company to conduct background checks, and whether employees have been properly informed of their right to receive copies of background check results
• Ways to ensure employees are informed of key company policies
• Records management and steps you can take to limit access to potentially sensitive or private employee information

Review of Company Procedures

Our HR audit lawyers examine the frequency of updates to the company’s policies and procedures to ensure that you are in compliance with changes in California and federal employment law. We also review how the company communicates these changes throughout the organization. We examine how employee benefits and benefit changes are communicated to employees, as well as how the company measures and communicates employee performance objectives.

Documentation — What Should You Put in Writing?

Documentation ensures consistency in how a company operates and treats its employees. Document provides a history that allows a company to identify issues that require attention. Our documentation audit looks at:

• The extent to which company policies are in writing
• How policies are distributed to employees
• Employee performance records
• How other employee issues are documented

Wage and Hour Issues — Understanding Federal and California Labor Law

Each year the Department of Labor and California’s Department of Industrial Relations collect millions of dollars in back wages for employees who were not paid the wages owed to them. That figure continues to increase.

California’s “Sue Your Boss” law encourages employees, and their attorneys, to sue employers for violations of the Labor Code. Even honest mistakes can result in costly litigation. An employer can expect to spend over $100,000 in defense costs to win a wage and hour case at trial. If the employer loses at trial, the cost will increase dramatically.

An employment practices audit can help save your company from liability that could result in an expensive lawsuit, fines, and other legal complications.

To learn more about our employment practices audit, contact San Jose employment law attorneys at Phillip J. Griego & Associates today. Now available to see clients in Alameda County and the East Bay Area, call (925) 364-4655.