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Local group
formed
to help
businesses
By George Rowann
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Let’s suppose you want to open a new business. You find a place, hire staff, get some loans and you’re in business.
Then let’s say that your business is a success. You expand, and hire more people and, almost before you know it, you have a problem you don’t know how to handle. There are federal laws and regulations regarding employees and their benefits, and you have neither time nor patience to get up to speed on all of them — you’re too busy running a business.
Unfortunately, the feds have time to find you. And that’s when your problems really start.
According to Caren Taylor Pressley, a lot of local companies are out of compliance with federal regulations through no fault of their own, “and the way you find you’re out of compliance is you get sued,” she said.
Pressley is one of four associates who have decided to address this issue by starting a local chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management, an organization devoted to keeping its members ahead of the curve in compliance issues.
The other three associates, — all located in Warrenton — are Audrey Allen, president of Allen Resources Company; Becky Fitzwater, financial services representative for Met Life Financial Services; and Nicole Western, benefits manager for Command Technologies.
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