Ensuring compliance with employment laws is challenging, yet a necessity. Sandra Moran, Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer at WorkForce Software, advocates a focus on continuous learning and development to make it part of an organisation’s conscience in this article for People Management.
Moran emphasizes that effectively navigating the dynamic landscape of regulatory compliance requires organisations to focus on several pivotal lessons which she goes on to explain. First, it is imperative to discern which laws are applicable to specific employees and addressing the organisation’s unique compliance intricacies.
Achieving this entails close collaboration between compliance and HR teams as well as operational leaders to comprehensively evaluate their ramifications. Moran explains that modern cloud-based workforce management technologies can streamline compliance management, significantly mitigating the risk of human errors and that regular internal compliance audits establish well-documented tracks of adherence to employment laws and policies.
“Don’t think your company is alone in struggling with legal compliance – this remains an issue for all employers, regardless of company size or sector,” Moran says. “Looking ahead, the winners will be the organisations that offer continuous L&D opportunities around employment laws and policies applicable to employees, along with easily accessible employment policies and procedures that keep pace with business needs.”