HR decisions and benefits decisions are often treated separately—but they're deeply connected. Changing your staffing model affects eligibility thresholds. Restructuring departments can trigger COBRA obligations. Compensation changes influence contribution strategies.

HR decisions and benefits decisions don't exist in isolation. When they're made separately, employers often create compliance gaps, cost surprises, or employee issues months later. Our HR guidance is built with benefits, compliance, and workforce impact in mind—so decisions work together instead of colliding downstream.

When HR Consulting Makes Sense

Advisory guidance for decisions that affect your organization

Workforce Planning

Growing, downsizing, or restructuring? We help you think through how changes affect benefits eligibility, compliance thresholds (like ACA's 50-employee mark), and overall cost structure before you commit.

Compensation Strategy

Total compensation includes benefits. When you're evaluating salary structures, bonus programs, or equity arrangements, we help you understand how those decisions interact with your benefits investment.

Policy Development

Employment policies need to align with your benefits program and comply with New York requirements. We help you develop policies that work together—PTO, leave, remote work, and other workforce practices.

Compliance Coordination

New York employment law is complex—Paid Family Leave, Disability Benefits Law, wage and hour rules, and more. We help you understand how compliance obligations interact with your benefits and HR practices.

Separation Planning

When employees leave—voluntarily or not—there are benefits implications. COBRA timing, final pay requirements, benefit continuation. We help you handle separations properly and avoid common mistakes.

Onboarding Strategy

New hire onboarding sets the tone for the employment relationship. We help you design onboarding that effectively communicates benefits, meets compliance requirements, and reduces early turnover.

Consulting, Not Outsourcing

We're not an HR outsourcing firm. We don't take over your HR function or handle your day-to-day employee management. What we do is provide strategic guidance when you're facing decisions that matter.

  • Advisory support for specific situations and decisions
  • Guidance that considers benefits and compliance together
  • Connection to legal counsel when you need it
  • No long-term contracts or retainer requirements

When situations require legal advice, we can connect you with an ERISA attorney who understands employee benefits law.

Employers Facing Strategic Decisions

HR consulting makes sense for employers who are navigating significant workforce decisions—not for routine HR administration. If you're dealing with day-to-day HR questions, our HR Support service may be a better fit.

This service is most valuable when you're:

  • Growing and adding employees, with questions about how that affects benefits and compliance
  • Restructuring or reducing workforce, with concerns about doing it properly
  • Developing or revising policies that interact with your benefits program
  • Facing a complex situation where HR and benefits intersect

Professional services firms, medical practices, and other employers across Nassau and Suffolk often reach us at these inflection points—when they need guidance beyond what their internal resources can provide.

Other HR Support Options

Different needs, different solutions

Facing a Workforce Decision?

We're based in Melville and work with employers across Nassau and Suffolk. Let's discuss your situation and whether strategic HR consulting makes sense.

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