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What this site is not
- Not a law firm, an accounting firm or an HR consultancy. employment.biz is published by Webhaus LLC, a publisher. Nobody on the team is licensed to practice law, is a certified public accountant or holds an HR credential.
- Not advice. The pages describe forms, deadlines, rules and agency procedures in general terms. They cannot tell you what to do in your situation, and the right course in a particular case can depend on facts no general page can know: your state, your employer’s size, your contract, your immigration status, your tax situation.
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- Not a referral service and not a job board. The site does not recommend, rank, endorse or match readers with attorneys, accountants, HR consultants, recruiters or employers, and it lists no jobs. Where it names ways to get help, it names official channels: the agency’s own page, its phone line or its complaint process, and the state bar’s certified referral services.
- Not the agency and not your employer. The site has no connection to the Department of Labor, the IRS, USCIS, the EEOC, the EDD, the Labor Commissioner or any employer. It cannot file a claim, check a case, verify anyone’s employment or answer a question about your account. The agencies’ own pages, linked from each article, can.
Information changes
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Deadlines
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