Legal

Mitigate risk with one dashboard

Employee separations require significant legal involvement to ensure compliance with corporate policy and employment law. Onwards HR simplifies the legal process by providing built-in compliance tools. Plus, the entire employee separation process is thoroughly documented in one centralized location.

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Maintain confidentiality

When offboarding employees, efficiency is key.

  • Shorten the exit timeline, providing quicker, more cost-effective employee offboarding

  • Manage changes easily and swiftly, allowing for separations to stay on schedule

  • Leverage automated signatures for improved speed and recordkeeping

Learn more about Onwards HR’s Workflow Management tools.

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Centralize employee records

Aggregate employee documentation for increased transparency.

  • View all offboarding communication in a single, centralized location

  • Provide your legal team with the comprehensive employee case file developed during the Case Management process

  • Gain peace of mind knowing there’s a full audit trail of each action taken

Explore other Reporting and Analytics features.

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Analyze for adverse impact

Evaluate separation events for bias and discrimination.

  • Support your company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives when offboarding employees

  • Easily analyze RIF data for disparate impact (or adverse impact)

  • Leverage several statistical models, including the 4/5ths Rule, Fisher Exact, Chi Square, and Standard Deviation

Discover Onwards HR’s Compliance capabilities.

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Assess for events that trigger the WARN Act

Separation technology make it much easier to comply with the employment laws like the WARN Act and state mini-WARNs.

  • Use automation to generate legally-mandated notices when a reduction in force (RIF) qualifies for the WARN Act

  • Avoid costly penalties like 60 days of back pay and benefits to each employee, plus attorneys’ fees

  • Leverage the platform’s reporting features to analyze for WARN Act compliance across enterprise-wide or rolling RIFs using 90-day review periods that can look at the past and future

Learn about our State Separation Notice Automation product.