HR Audit
An HR audit gives you a clear, prioritized view of where your HR practices stand and where they’re exposed.
An outdated employee handbook. An employee treated as an exempt, with administrative duties being micromanaged and working more than 40 hours a week. A termination process that varies by manager. A leave request handled differently depending on who’s in the room. Any one of these gaps can surface as a Department of Labor inquiry, an EEOC charge, or a wrongful termination claim, and by the time it does, you’re managing litigation instead of a policy update.
HR audits exist to catch exactly this kind of exposure while it’s still fixable. The upside: an HR audit gives you the chance to find these compliance gaps on your own terms. It tells you, plainly, whether your policies, documentation, and day-to-day practices hold up against current employment law.
The broader question of whether your HR function is strategically optimized falls under a wider HR Assessment effort. The audit provides a narrower, more focused question, and it’s one you can answer with confidence before a regulator or a plaintiff’s attorney answers it for you.
What Is an HR Audit?
An HR audit is a compliance-focused review of your organization’s HR policies, documentation, and practices against current federal, state, and local employment law. It asks one central question: Are you doing things correctly and legally, right now?
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What a BPM HR Audit Covers
Our audit gives you a clear view of where your HR practices stand and where they’re exposed. We examine:
- Policy and handbook review, confirming your employee handbook and written policies reflect current law and match how your organization operates
- Employee classification and wage and hour compliance, verifying workers are properly classified and compensated in line with federal and state requirements
- I-9 and recordkeeping practices, checking that employment eligibility documentation and employee files are complete, accurate, and properly retained
- Hiring, onboarding, and termination practices, reviewing whether these processes could create legal exposure or inconsistent treatment across the organization
- Leave administration and required postings, confirming compliance with state-specific leave laws, pay transparency requirements, and mandatory workplace notices
How BPM Approaches Your Audit
Our HR consultants bring deep experience across compliance, employment law, and HR operations, and we tailor the scope of the review to your organization’s size, footprint, and risk profile. Rather than handing you a list of what’s wrong, we deliver a clear, prioritized action plan, so you know exactly what to fix first and why it matters.
An HR audit isn’t about catching your team doing something wrong. It’s about giving you the confidence that your people practices can hold up to scrutiny, on your timeline, not a regulator’s.
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