Licensing & reuse

The short version

Two data tables on this site are published under CC BY 4.0: take them, including for commercial work, as long as you credit us. Everything else — the state guides, the FAQ, this page — is ordinary copyright and is not licensed for republication. Quote a line or two with a link back and we are happy; take a whole guide and please ask first. Answers from the assistant are a separate case, at the bottom of this page.

Licensed under CC BY 4.0

• HR Compliance Thresholds by Employee Count — the employee counts that trigger an obligation, federal and in seven states.
• WARN Notice Requirements by State — layoff notice rules, side by side, for the same seven states.

How to attribute a row

Name HR World Today, link back to the table you took the row from, and say it is CC BY 4.0. If you changed the row — reworded it, merged it, updated a figure — say that too. Copy this, filling in the update date printed on the table:

The citation block on each table omits the license

Each table prints a citation block under the heading "Cite this table". It names us, the table and the update date, but not the license — so if you copy it from there, add the CC BY 4.0 line yourself. The license is also in each table's machine-readable Dataset markup, for anyone crawling the page rather than reading it.

Re-check the figure before you print it

Where a row cites a statute, open that statute and confirm the number still reads the way we transcribed it before you republish it. The update date on each table tells you when the table was last changed, not that nothing has moved since. If you find a row that has moved, email maggievinas@outlook.com.

The statutes themselves are not ours to license

The CC BY license covers our work: which rows we chose, how we worded them, how we arranged them. Statutory and regulatory language quoted inside a row belongs to the government that wrote it. We cannot grant you rights in it and we are not pretending to.

The guides are ordinary copyright

The state guides, the FAQ and the rest of the site's prose are © HR World Today and are not CC-licensed. Quoting a sentence or two with a link back is fine by us. Republishing a guide in full, or repackaging the set into something you distribute or sell, needs our permission — email and ask.

Answers the assistant gives you

Use an answer inside your own organization: paste it into a memo, a policy, a board pack. We ask for no credit. What you may not do is resell answers, republish them, present them as legal advice, or use them to build a competing corpus or train a model — those limits are on the terms page, and nothing here widens them. We store the question and the answer, and what happens to them is set out on the privacy page. An answer is general HR information, not legal advice.

Attribution is not endorsement

CC BY 4.0 lets you say where a row came from. It does not let you suggest we reviewed, approved or stand behind whatever you built around it — because we have not.