CUPA-HR is pleased to be able to provide its members with complimentary access to BNA’s HR resources in the form of HR Essentials and HR Essential Tools.

Human resource, benefits, and payroll professionals routinely turn to BNA to get fast answers to the questions they face every day, taking advantage of BNA services to help create effective policies, design competitive compensation plans, research fair employment practices cases, keep up with EEO developments, comply with laws and regulations, and answer employee and management questions accurately.

HR Essentials

HR Essentials offers a Google-like search feature that will help you:

• Get the answers you need faster, with BNA's exclusive Fast Answers™, featuring thousands of succinct, plain-English, expert explanations of dozens of compliance and policy topics
• Read detailed discussions with expert analysis from BNA's lawyer/editors
• Quickly scan law summaries, in plain English, in 52 jurisdictions
• Access a broad collection of downloadable and printable model documents, such as sample policies, notices, forms, job applications, and more
• Keep tabs on news and trends with weekly updates on important HR events
• Choose the amount of information you receive from a topic list — from one topic, one state to all topics in 52 jurisdictions

Topics include:

• Benefits and compensation
• Compliance
• Performance and productivity
• Employee relations
• Recruiting, selecting, and staffing
• Risk management and safety

Experience the many ways HR Essentials can speed your research, relay the latest news and analysis, and help you meet your most significant HR needs.

HR Essential Tools

With HR Essential Tools, you'll get everything you need to develop sound policies, comply with legal guidelines, benchmark against others, and more.

HR Resources

Access Notices and Posters
A broad collection of printable images of federal and state workplace posters and notices.

Refer to the HR Policy Handbook
Create and implement effective HR policies, tailor-made for your company, with HR Policy Handbook explanations and guidance. You'll have comprehensive, plain-English coverage of virtually every issue HR departments must address, in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.

Use Sample Policies and Forms
Have the most organized, all-in-one HR information solution available, with more forms, documents, and templates than ever before. Focus areas include:

• Human resources department
• Hiring and employment
• Compensation and benefits
• Staffing and scheduling
• Training and development
• Transfer, promotion, layoff and separation
• Conduct and discipline
• Productivity
• Communications
• Working conditions, safety and security

Consult BNA Surveys & Reports
Learn from other companies' problems and solutions, and benchmark your achievements with authoritative BNA surveys.

HR Tools

Use Interactive Forms
Have an all-in-one, up-to-date selection of continuously updated interactive federal and state forms that you can complete on-screen, save and recall — plus downloadable state and federal posters.

Create Custom Job Descriptions
Write comprehensive job descriptions quickly and easily with JobDescriptions.com (included in your subscription), a software tool that enables you to create legally appropriate, customized job descriptions using a library of thousands of job descriptions and a powerful question-and-answer format that identifies specific job requirements.