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Compliance and Risk Management

Approximately 29 percent of the questions on the HRCI California specific exam are selected from the “Compliance and Risk Management” body of knowledge. The responsibilities and knowledge areas are listed below. 

Note: HRCI publishes descriptions of functional area responsibilities but does not provide a list of specific knowledge areas/topics for the exam. The knowledge topics below are only suggested topics to study based on the HRCI exam outline and HRCI’s description of the functional area responsibilities.

Click on a knowledge topic to go to the relevant area in the HR Library.

Overview

  1. Role and responsibilities of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE)
  2. State law requirements for timekeeping
  3. Wage and Hour Legal requirements for individual notices and documentation on pay stubs
  4. Wage and Hour Legal requirements for postings and notices
  5. Wage and Hour documentation and records retention requirements
  6. Pre-employment and hiring procedures (for example: postings and individual notices
  7. Requirements related to privacy and security (for example: permissible employment application procedures and protection of personal data)
  8. Non-compete, non-disclosure, invention assignment agreements and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
  9. Individual employee rights (for example: California's Private Attorneys General Act, language translation requirements and literacy assistance)
  10. Required new hire and termination notices
  11. Employer Relations and FEHA Legal requirements for postings and notices
  12. Employer Relations and FEHA documentation and records retention requirements
  13. Other protected time off as required by the California Labor Code (for example: school leave, crime victims' leave, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking victims' leave, organ and bone marrow donor leave, and military leave)
  14. Time off for voting
  15. Leaves of Absence (LOA) Legal requirements for postings and notices
  16. Leaves of Absence (LOA) documentation and record retention requirements
  17. Workers’ compensation notification and reporting requirements
  18. Cal/OSHA, Risk Management and WC legal requirements for postings and notices
  19. Cal/OSHA, Risk Management and WC records retention requirements
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