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A: Accidents; ADA (Disabilities); Addresses and Contacts; Administrative Exemption; Advertising; Affirmative Action; Age Discrimination; AIDS and Disease; Alcohol and Drugs; Aliens and Immigration; Application Forms; Apprenticeship Training; Athletics; Attendance; Audits
B: Background Checks; Benefits; Bonus Payments; Bulletin Boards; Business/ Travel Expenses
C: Callback/Report-In Pay; Child Care/Daycare; Child Labor; Civil Rights; COBRA (Health Insurance Continuation); Communication; Commuting; Compensation Administration; Complaints and Investigations; Consumer Price Index; Contingent Workers; Counseling Services/ EAPs; Credit Unions
D: Death in Family; Death of Employee; Deductions from Pay; Designing Base Pay; Disabilities (ADA); Disability Insurance; Discipline; Disease; Diversity; Domestic Partner Benefits; Dress Codes
E: E-mail and Internet; Electronic Monitoring; Emergencies; Emergency Closings; Employee Associations; Employee Attitude; Employee Communications; Employee Handbooks; Employment Agencies; Employment Contracts; Employment Practices Liability Insurance; Equal Pay/Comparable Worth; Ergonomics; ERISA; Ethics; Executive Exemption; Exempt Personnel; Exit Interviews
F: Facilities; Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); Fire Drills; First Aid; Flexible Benefits/ Cafeteria Plans; FMLA (Leave of Absence)
G: Gambling; Garnishment; Government Contractors; Grievances; Group Leaders
H: Health Information Privacy (HIPAA); Health Insurance Continuation (COBRA); Healthcare Benefits; Healthcare Insurance; Hiring; Holidays; Homeworkers/ Telecommuting; Hours of Work; HR Audits; HR Metrics; HR Strategy; HRIS
I: Incentive Compensation; Independent Contractors; Internships; Interviewing (Pre-employment Inquiries)
J: Job Analysis; Job Descriptions; Job Evaluation; Job Posting; Job Pricing; Jury Duty/ Court Appearance

L: Laws & Regulations; Layoff; Leadership; Leave of Absence (FMLA); Lie Detector Tests; Life Insurance; Living Wage; Loans; Long-Term Care
M: Maternity and Pregnancy; Medical Treatment; Mentoring; Metrics; Mileage Allowance; Military Service (USERRA); Minimum Wage; Moonlighting; Motor Vehicles; Moving Expenses/ Relocation
N: National Origin Discrimination; NLRA; Notices (Posting)
O: Office Parties; Orientation; OSHA; Overtime
P: Part-Time Employees; Patent Agreements; Paychecks; Payroll; Performance Appraisal; Personal Leave; Personnel Manuals; Personnel/ HR Associations; Personnel/ HR Management; Physical Exams; Political Activity; Pre-Employment Inquiries (Interviewing); Prevailing Wages; Privacy; Probationary Periods; Professional Development; Professional Exemption
R: Racial Discrimination; Records; Recruiting; References; Relatives' Employment; Religious Discrimination; Rest Periods; Retaliation; Retention; Retirement; Retirement Savings/401(k); Right to Know/ Hazard Communication
S: Safety and Health; Salaried Employee; Sales Personnel Exemption; Security; Selection and Testing; Seniority; Severance Pay; Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Shift Operation; Sick Leave; Smoking; Social Security/Medicare; Solicitation; Statistics; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Succession Planning; Suggestion Systems
T: Team Building; Telephones; Termination (with Discharge); Time-Keeping; Training; Travel Time; Tuition Assistance; Turnover
U: Unemployment Compensation; Unions; USERRA (Military Service)
V: Vacations; Vietnam Vets/ Veterans; Violence in the Workplace; Visas
W: Wage and Hour Investigations; War and Terrorism; Website Help; Welfare and Pension Reports; Wellness; Withholding; Work/Life; Workers' Compensation

Benefits & Leave: Benefits; Child Care/Daycare; COBRA (Health Insurance Continuation); Counseling Services/ EAPs; Credit Unions; Death in Family; Disability Insurance; Domestic Partner Benefits; ERISA; Flexible Benefits/ Cafeteria Plans; FMLA (Leave of Absence); Health Information Privacy (HIPAA); Health Insurance Continuation (COBRA); Healthcare Benefits; Healthcare Insurance; Holidays; Jury Duty/ Court Appearance; Leave of Absence (FMLA); Life Insurance; Loans; Long-Term Care; Military Service (USERRA); Personal Leave; Retirement; Retirement Savings/401(k); Sick Leave; Social Security/Medicare; Tuition Assistance; USERRA (Military Service); Vacations; Welfare and Pension Reports; Wellness; Work/Life
Compensation: Administrative Exemption; Bonus Payments; Business/ Travel Expenses; Callback/Report-In Pay; Child Labor; Compensation Administration; Consumer Price Index; Deductions from Pay; Designing Base Pay; Executive Exemption; Exempt Personnel; Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); Garnishment; Hours of Work; Incentive Compensation; Independent Contractors; Job Analysis; Job Descriptions; Job Evaluation; Job Pricing; Living Wage; Mileage Allowance; Minimum Wage; Overtime; Part-Time Employees; Paychecks; Payroll; Prevailing Wages; Professional Exemption; Rest Periods; Salaried Employee; Sales Personnel Exemption; Shift Operation; Time-Keeping; Travel Time; Wage and Hour Investigations; Withholding
Discrimination: ADA (Disabilities); Affirmative Action; Age Discrimination; AIDS and Disease; Civil Rights; Disabilities (ADA); Disease; Diversity; Equal Pay/Comparable Worth; Government Contractors; Maternity and Pregnancy; National Origin Discrimination; Pre-Employment Inquiries (Interviewing); Racial Discrimination; Religious Discrimination; Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Vietnam Vets/ Veterans; Website Help
Health & Safety: Accidents; Emergencies; Ergonomics; Fire Drills; First Aid; Medical Treatment; Motor Vehicles; OSHA

Right to Know/ Hazard Communication; Safety and Health; Violence in the Workplace; War and Terrorism
HR Administration: Addresses and Contacts; Athletics; Audits; Bulletin Boards; Communication; Commuting; Death of Employee; E-mail and Internet; Electronic Monitoring; Emergency Closings; Employee Attitude; Employee Communications; Employee Handbooks; Employment Practices Liability Insurance; Ethics; Facilities; HR Audits; HR Metrics; HR Strategy; HRIS; Interviewing (Pre-employment Inquiries); Laws & Regulations; Lie Detector Tests; Metrics; Moonlighting; Notices (Posting); Patent Agreements; Personnel Manuals; Personnel/ HR Associations; Personnel/ HR Management; Privacy; Records; Security; Seniority; Statistics; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Suggestion Systems; Telephones; Workers' Compensation
Performance & Termination: Alcohol and Drugs; Attendance; Complaints and Investigations; Discipline; Dress Codes; Exit Interviews; Gambling; Layoff; Office Parties; Performance Appraisal; Political Activity; Retaliation; Severance Pay; Smoking; Termination (with Discharge); Unemployment Compensation
Staffing & Training: Advertising; Aliens and Immigration; Application Forms; Apprenticeship Training; Background Checks; Contingent Workers; Employment Agencies; Employment Contracts; Group Leaders; Hiring; Homeworkers/ Telecommuting; Internships; Job Posting; Leadership; Mentoring; Moving Expenses/ Relocation; Orientation; Physical Exams; Probationary Periods; Professional Development; Recruiting; References; Relatives' Employment; Retention; Selection and Testing; Succession Planning; Team Building; Training; Turnover; Visas
Unions: Employee Associations; Grievances; NLRA; Solicitation; Unions

Topic analysis updated in the past 3 months

	Topic	State	Date
8	Affirmative Action	National	2/23/2012	155
9	Age Discrimination	National	4/05/2012	155
12	Aliens and Immigration	National	2/23/2012	155
13	Application Forms	National	5/04/2012	155
17	Background Checks	National	4/25/2012	155
24	Child Labor	National	2/23/2012	155
41	Disability Insurance	National	2/23/2012	155
43	Diversity	National	2/27/2012	155
44	Domestic Partner Benefits	National	3/06/2012	155
55	Employment Contracts	National	2/27/2012	155
63	Exempt Personnel	National	2/23/2012	155
67	Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)	National	2/23/2012	155
74	Government Contractors	National	2/23/2012	155
78	Health Information Privacy (HIPAA)	National	2/27/2012	155
79	Hiring	National	5/07/2012	155
92	Job Posting	National	2/27/2012	155
94	Jury Duty/ Court Appearance	National	2/23/2012	155
101	Life Insurance	National	2/23/2012	155
103	Loans	National	2/23/2012	155
104	Long-Term Care	National	2/27/2012	155
110	Military Service (USERRA)	National	2/23/2012	155
116	NLRA	National	4/18/2012	155
117	Notices (Posting)	National	3/05/2012	155
125	Payroll	National	2/23/2012	155
139	Records	National	2/27/2012	155
148	Safety and Health	National	2/27/2012	155
149	Salaried Employee	National	2/23/2012	155
151	Security	National	2/23/2012	155
155	Sex Discrimination	National	5/11/2012	155
156	Sexual Harassment	National	5/11/2012	155
171	Training	National	2/23/2012	155
176	Unions	National	5/15/2012	155
178	Vietnam Vets/ Veterans	National	2/23/2012	155
180	Visas	National	2/23/2012	155
189	Healthcare Benefits	National	2/23/2012	155
192	HR Strategy	National	2/23/2012	155

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