Finding Employees | Employment Taxes | Employment Law | Employee or Contractor | Employee Benefits

The laws and regulations governing employees in the workplace are grouped in four major areas:

• Wages, Earnings and Benefits
• Tax Withholding and Reporting
• Workplace Conditions
• Anti-discrimination

Business.gov, an online SBA sponsored resource guide designed to provide legal and regulatory information to America's small businesses, contains information on the laws and regulations that govern the hiring process. The following related topics are addressed under the section dedicated to managing employees:

• Hiring Employees FAQs
• Employee Background Checks
• Employment Law Basics
• Discrimination & Harassment
• Drug Free Workplace
• Employee Benefits
• Hiring & Managing Employees
• Posters
• Terminating Employees
• Unions
• Wage & Hour Laws
• Workers’ Compensation

For more information on this topic: US Department of Labor Employment Law Guide