Employment laws can be exceedingly difficult to administer — especially when they change approximately every 3.2 seconds as they have so far this year.

To help us ensure that we’re giving you the information you need, each quarter we ask you to identify the employment law area that is giving you the most trouble. This quarter, we asked an audience of 1,987 HR professionals and business owners the following question . . .

What employment law issue gives you the most headaches?

“Medical Issues” topped the list once again, with 29.5% of the votes. That’s not too surprising, given the new HITECH Act and all the changes to the ADA and FMLA in the past year. Rising up the charts to take the #2 spot was “Wage & Hour” with 13.9%, followed closely by “Terminations” with 13.7% and then “Technology” with 8.9%.

Here are the top vote-getters:

1.   Medical issues (ADA, FMLA, HIPAA, HITECH, WC, etc.): 29.5%
2.   Wage & Hour (overtime, exemptions, independent contractors, etc.): 13.9% 
3.   Terminations: 13.7%
4.   Technology (social networking, computer usage, texting, etc.): 8.9%
5.   Litigation (EEOC charges, lawsuits, arbitrations, etc.): 7.3%
6.   Hiring: 7.2%
7.   RIFs: 6.7%
8.   Investigations: 6.6%
9.   Immigration (I-9s, visas, etc.): 3.2%
10. Unions: 3.1%

We’ll use these results to guide the content we create here on the Blawg, as well as our upcoming webinars. Thanks for expressing yourselves!

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