HR Policies & Compliance

Leang Chung is the Founder & CEO of Pelora Stack, a career coaching and people ops consulting company. Previously she served as Talent and HR leader at Getty Images, Xaxis, Havaianas, and L’Oreal USA. In this guide, she explains how to build a people function at a startup, including fundamentals like how recruiting and onboarding processes should function and what kinds of early benefits to offer.

Allison Whalen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Parentaly, helping companies improve the experience of parental leave from policy, to pre-leave planning, to return-to-work re-onboarding. In this guide, Allison walks through creating a leave programming including creating a policy and supporting employees pre- and post-leave.

Sophie Alcorn is the Founding Partner at Alcorn Immigration Law and is a Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. In this guide she lays out different employment-based visa and green card options available to companies seeking to hire international talent, and when to use them. Please keep in mind that this article is educational only and does not replace individual legal advice. Sophie recommends that you speak with an expert attorney for any legal advice to assess your options if you think you’re ready to move forward. Immigration is not a one-size-fits-all process, and putting your best foot forward requires individualized attention!

Linda Fang is the Principal Attorney at Banyan Legal Counsel, a law firm that supports businesses with employment law and business startup and expansion. In this guide she lays out what policies you should have in place for your employees in general, and how to to think about your processes around hiring, onboarding and offboarding employees, managing remote workers, protecting your company’s intellectual property, and more.