Note: This story has been updated.
In the high-stakes arena of labor and employment law, businesses have to keep up with ever-changing rules in order to stay within the bounds of the law. To help employers avoid rolling the dice on employment mishaps, the ACE Group has paired with management-side firm Littler Mendelson to create EPL Assist, an employment risk management tool.
EPL Assist is only available to a select group of ACE policyholders. The tool provides users with online access to state-specific legal content and analysis, as well as templates for employee handbooks and commonly used legal forms. EPL Assist users will also have live access to Littlers employment lawyers via a custom web portal or telephone hotline.
In a statement announcing the EPL tool, ACE Professional Risk VP Kenneth Latham said, Employers today face a dizzying array of employment laws and ongoing employment issues. Whether it involves discipline or termination, wage and hour, or even the new frontier of social media, the ever-changing legal requirements of these issues can have a devastating impact.
CorpCounsel.com reporter Shannon Green received answers to emailed questions from Jennifer Walker, assistant marketing VP at ACE, about the new product. An edited version of that exchange follows.
CorpCounsel.com: How can both large and small companies make use of EPL Assist?
