US Jurisdictions

New Hampshire

New and Updated

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    USERRA: New Hampshire

    This guide provides an overview of New Hampshire military leave law. It covers employer obligations and employee rights with respect to military leave, Veterans Day leave, and the importance of maintaining documentation regarding military leave.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Other Leaves: New Hampshire

    Updated to reflect retaliation protections for employees who are volunteer emergency responders and take leave to help with an emergency.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Unemployment Insurance Tax (FUTA/SUTA): New Hampshire

    This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the test for employee state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax coverage and what constitutes SUI taxable wages in New Hampshire. It covers topics such as the taxable wage base, contribution rates, experience rating methods, SUTA dumping prevention, voluntary contributions, joint or combined accounts, quarterly reporting requirements, penalties for late filing, multiple worksite reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Preemployment Screening and Testing: New Hampshire

    This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of New Hampshire laws related to background checks and other forms of preemployment screening and testing, including ban the box laws, fair chance laws, credit check laws, preemployment drug testing, physical fitness and medical testing.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Negligent Hiring: New Hampshire

    This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of New Hampshire law regarding employer liability for negligent hiring and negligent retention. It discusses how to minimize the risk of negligent hiring and retention claims through various forms of screening and covers legal limitations on these screening methods.

  • Type:
    Legal Timetable

    New Hampshire Employers Required to Provide Copies of Noncompete and Nonprivacy Agreements to Employees

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Health Care Continuation (COBRA): New Hampshire

    New Hampshire law requires covered employers to provide eligible employees and dependents the option of continuing health care coverage under certain circumstances. This guide helps HR professionals understand requirements related to continued health care coverage.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    The Unionization Process: New Hampshire

    This guide provides an overview of laws relevant to the unionization process in New Hampshire. It includes information on the state's right-to-work status, the requirement for employers to disclose ongoing labor disputes in job advertisements and the prohibition on hiring professional strikebreakers.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Taxation of Employee Benefits: New Hampshire

    This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the tax treatment in New Hampshire of salary deferrals to IRC § 125 cafeteria plans and § 401(k) plans.

  • Type:
    Employment Law Guide

    Overtime: New Hampshire

    New Hampshire's wage and hour law requires covered employers to pay nonexempt employees overtime for every hour worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. This guide provides an in-depth review of New Hampshire employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to this law.