Patent ID: 7330817

Claim:
A method of facilitating compliance with employment laws having varying requirements, and establishing such compliance, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving a request to interact from an agent of an employer, wherein the received interaction request comprises an action indicator corresponding to a selected employment action; b) providing access to process documentation related to a process associated with the selected employment action, wherein the process is designed to minimize potential for non-compliance with the employment laws, wherein the process documentation guides the agent through the process via interactions between the agent and the process documentation via the user input and output devices, wherein the accessed process documentation is provided and maintained by an employment law information source external to the employer; c) storing information related to agent interactions with the process documentation in a compliance data store; d) generating a compliance report based upon the stored interaction information; and e) sending the generated compliance report to one or more report agents of the employer via an output device associate with each; f) creating by the employment law information source a set of employment actions impacting compliance with the employment laws; g) creating by the employment law information source a process associated with each employment action in the set and documentation related to each such process supporting execution of the respective process; and h) storing the created set and the created process documentation in a presentation data store.