Compliance & Employment Law
At-will vs notice regimes, contractor classification, immigration basics, GDPR for HR, SOC 2 people controls — the legal floor every HR function operates above.
For: HR leaders, people ops, founders operating across jurisdictions
At-Will vs. Notice Regimes: The Two Worlds HR Operates Between
The single biggest legal cultural divide in global HR — at-will employment in the US versus notice-and-cause regimes elsewhere — and how HR leaders build…
Contractor Classification: The Test, the Risk, and the Annual Audit
How HR leaders evaluate whether a worker is genuinely a contractor or a misclassified employee — across IRS 20-factor, ABC, IR35, and EU integration tests…
Immigration & Visa Basics for HR: A Working Mental Model
The visa categories, sponsorship realities, and process timelines HR leaders need to know — not as immigration lawyers, but as the people who'll get asked…
GDPR for HR: The Data Discipline That Lives in Every People System
The principles, the legal bases for HR processing, the high-risk activities, and the discipline that keeps an HR function clean under GDPR, UK-GDPR, and the…
SOC 2 people controls: HR's part of the audit, in plain English
A deep, plain-English field guide to the SOC 2 controls HR owns — Trust Services Criteria mapping, exact evidence the auditor samples, joiner-mover-leaver…
Severance pay: legal minimums by country (2026 reference)
Statutory severance minimums in 18 countries — Nepal, India, US, UK, Germany, France, UAE, Singapore, and more. Notice periods, formulas, and the practical…
GDPR for HR: the 12 obligations that actually touch your week
Forget the 99 articles. There are 12 GDPR obligations that show up in normal HR work — DSARs, lawful basis, retention, transfers, breach reporting — and most…
Works councils and collective bargaining: what HR teams from non-union countries miss
Hire in Germany, France, Netherlands, or much of Latin America and the rules change. Here's the briefing — what a works council is, what collective bargaining…
Employment law 101: the seven things every people manager should know
You don't need to be a lawyer. You do need to know which moments require one. Here are the seven employment-law concepts that show up in normal manager and HR…
Employment contracts vs at-will: what changes when you cross a border
If you've only hired in one country, the rules feel like 'the rules'. Cross a border and they invert. Here's the friendly explainer — at-will, notice regimes…
Business ethics frameworks for HR — utilitarian, deontological, virtue, and the test that actually helps
Ethics in HR isn't a values-poster. It's a decision-making capability under uncertainty. Three classical frameworks — utilitarian (Mill), deontological…