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Guides, eBooks, checklists, and templates written by the certified HR practitioners who use them every day with employers across North Carolina and nationwide.
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Employee Handbook Compliance Guide
Compliance
The policies every handbook needs to satisfy federal and state employment law, plus the language that quietly creates risk.
Get the guideCompensation Benchmarking Starter Guide
Pay & Classification
How to pick survey sources, match jobs honestly, and build pay ranges you can defend to finance and to your employees.
Get the guideStrategic Compensation Planning Starts Now
Pay & Classification
Eight phases to review before you set next year’s pay, in a designed eBook you can save and share with your leadership team or board.
Get the eBookCompensation Planning Year-End Strategic Checklist
Pay & Classification
Eight phases from foundational data review through post-implementation, so a compensation cycle is defensible, on budget, and well communicated.
Get the checklistI-9 Compliance & Reverification Checklist
Compliance
Work through Section 1, Section 2, and reverification deadlines the way an auditor would, so a Form I-9 review does not turn into a fine.
Get the checklistNew Hire Onboarding Checklist
Hiring & Onboarding
Every task from offer acceptance through day 90, mapped to who owns it, so new hires are productive instead of waiting.
Get the checklistOSHA Workplace Safety Audit Checklist
Safety
Walk your facility against the standards OSHA actually cites, and fix the findings before an inspector writes them up.
Get the checklistFree HR templates
Hiring, performance, separation & leave
Seven ready-to-edit Word templates: offer letter, job description, performance review, PIP, exit interview, termination letter, and FMLA designation letter.
Get the templatesNew
HR templates, ready to edit
Seven Word templates for hiring, performance, separation, and leave: offer letter, job description, performance review, performance improvement plan, exit interview, termination letter, and FMLA designation letter.
Why these guides
Written by certified HR practitioners
Compliance-first
Every guide is reviewed against current federal and state employment law before it is published.
Built from real cases
The content comes from actual client situations, compliance audits, and workforce decisions, not generic textbooks.
Free to use
Guides and checklists open instantly. Templates and a few designed resources ask for a short form first.
A guide gets you started. An advisor gets you an answer.
When the guide does not cover your situation, Catapult members reach a certified HR advisor the same day by phone, chat, or email.