This page explains how articles on employment.biz are researched, written, checked and corrected. The site publishes general information about employment paperwork and process, not legal, tax or financial advice; the disclaimer explains the difference.
Sources
Every factual claim on the site is traceable to a source listed at the end of the article that makes it. Sources are ranked in this order of preference:
- Federal agencies, on their own sites: the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services.
- California agencies: the Employment Development Department, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Labor Commissioner, the Civil Rights Department, the Franchise Tax Board, Covered California. Other states’ labor and workforce agencies for their own rules.
- The statutes and regulations: the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the California Labor Code, Government Code, Civil Code and Unemployment Insurance Code, cited by section.
- The official forms and their instructions (Form I-9, Form W-4, Form W-2, the EDD and DIR notices).
- Published court opinions and agency guidance documents, where a rule turns on them.
- A vendor’s site, for its own products, plans and prices only. A survey publisher, for its own survey only.
- News reports, for events.
Wikipedia, forums, HR-software blogs and other sites’ summaries of the law are used to find leads, never as the cited source for a fact. Where a statute and a secondary source disagree, the statute wins and the article says so.
Dates that change
Tax rates and wage bases, minimum wages, benefit amounts, headcount thresholds, forms and deadlines change, usually on January 1. Articles state the tax year or the effective date of the figure, and phrase such figures so a reader knows to confirm them on the agency’s page. The site re-checks these details every six months and after each new year.
What the site does not do
- It does not tell readers what to do in their own situation. Articles describe what the form is, what the rule says and what the agency does.
- It does not publish first-person accounts or claim experience the team has not had.
- It does not invent statistics, rates, quotations or timelines. Where no agency publishes a figure, the page says so.
- It does not recommend, rank or match attorneys, accountants, HR consultants or recruiters, does not list jobs, and does not accept payment for coverage. Affiliate links are disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page and in the articles where they appear.
Use of software and AI tools
Articles carry the byline Rowan Hale, which is the editorial byline of the Employment Desk team at the publisher, Webhaus LLC, rather than one person’s legal name. Research, drafting and fact-checking are done with the help of AI writing and research tools under the direction of that team. Every article is built from the cited sources, reviewed for accuracy against them before publication and edited by a person. Webhaus LLC is responsible for everything published. No attorney, CPA or HR professional has reviewed the articles unless a page says so by name.
Corrections
Errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed, and the article’s “updated” date changes. To report one, use the contact page and include the article title and the source that contradicts it.