Margie Faulk
Margie Faulk is a senior level human resources professional with over 15 years of HR management and compliance experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC, Margie, has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduces potential workplace fines and penalties from violation of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.
Margie’s area of expertise includes Criminal Background Screening Policies and auditing, I-9 document correction and storage compliance, Immigration compliance, employee handbook development, policy development, sexual harassment investigations/certified training, SOX regulations, payroll compliance, compliance consulting, monitoring US-based federal, state and local regulations, employee relations issues, internal investigations, HR management, compliance consulting, internal/external audits, and performance management.
Margie is a speaker and accomplished trainer and has created and presented compliance seminars/webinars for over 16 US and International compliance institutes. Margie has testified as a compliance subject matter expert (SME) for several regulatory agencies and against regulatory agencies, thank goodness not on the same day. Margie offers compliance training to HR professionals, business owners, and leadership to ensure compliance with workplace and regulations.
Margie’s unique training philosophy includes providing free customized tools for all attendees. These tools are customized and have been proven to be part an effective risk management strategy. Some of the customized tools include the I-9 Self Audit. Correction and Storage program, Ban the Box Decision Matrix Policy that Employers can provide in a dispute for allegations, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Compliance Guide, Drug-Free Workplace Volatile Termination E-Book and other compliance program tools when attendees register and attend Margie’s trainings.
Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).
Live Webinars
By: Margie Faulk
Nov. 2, 2026
New Form I-9: Documents and Policies that Ensure ICE I-9 Compliance
USCIS updated Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, extending its expiration date to 05/31/2027, and employers had to move to this edition by July 31, 2026. Although the form looks simple…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
By: Margie Faulk
Sept. 23, 2026
Handbook Overhaul 2026: Compliance, OBBB Act & Beyond
Your employee handbook should keep up with a changing workplace. The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act, state-specific rules and shifting expectations around remote work, AI and inclusion make 202…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
By: Margie Faulk
May 1, 2026
H-1B Visa Registration 2026–27 for Employers - New Fees Compliance Responsibilities, and USCIS Selection Changes
The FY 2027 H-1B cap season brought a short registration window and higher costs for sponsoring employers. This 90-minute H-1B registration webinar explains the timeline, the $215 USCIS registrati…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Chronicles
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
DOL Reverses Course on Independent Contractor Rule for 2026! How Will Employers Adapt to the Change?
The Department of Labor (DOL) has changed its enforcement position on independent contractor classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is no longer…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
How to Manage the Legal Landmine of the FMLA, ADA and Workers Compensation in the Workplace!
Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act is hard enough on its own. When the Family and Medical Leave Act or workers' compensation also applies, it's easy to lose track of which law requ…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
2025 Top Employment Regulations That Will Impact Employers!
Employment regulations have changed quickly, and many employers missed deadlines while waiting to see how court challenges would play out. This 90-minute employment regulations update reviews the …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Employee Handbook Requirements for 2024. Includes Updated Federal, State and Local Regulations as well as Multi-State Regulations
An employee handbook is a key compliance tool and can help defend claims involving wage and hour violations, harassment, discrimination and leave disputes. Too often it is handed out at orientatio…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 75 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Employee or Independent Contractor – U.S DOL Announces 2024 Final Rule on How to Classify Staff under FLSA
Misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor can be a legal nightmare. This 90-minute webinar explains the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 final rule on employee vs independent contract…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Pay Equity Changes for 2024! What Employers Need to Know to Be Compliant!
Pay equity compliance has been changing at several levels at once. Under the Pay Equity Act, federally regulated employers with 10 or more employees must build a pay equity plan that identifies an…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Emotional Intelligence for Effective Working Relationships
Emotional intelligence (EI) covers how well you recognize and manage your own emotions, respond to other people's, and build working relationships. This introductory 60-minute emotional intelligen…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
I-9 Audits: Strengthening Your Immigration Compliance Strategies (2024 Updates)
Changes to Form I-9 have affected how employers complete and correct it, which makes now a good time for an I-9 audit. ICE enforces the duty to verify and re-verify work authorization through rand…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Fatal Errors Employers Make When Updating Employee Handbooks that Can Be a Legal Landmine! Learn What Policies are Mandated for 2024!
Attorneys preparing to sue an employer often start with the employee handbook. This 90-minute employee handbook webinar covers the major errors employers make when updating handbooks and how to av…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
If It Isn't Written, It Didn't Happen! How Can Employers Create Litigation Proof Decisions!
If it isn't written, it didn't happen. Many HR professionals and supervisors find documenting poor performance and discipline uncomfortable, yet missing or incorrect documentation can lead to laws…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Fatal Errors Employers Make When Updating Employee Handbooks that Can Be a Legal Landmine! Learn What Policies are Mandated for 2023!
Your employee handbook is one of the first documents a plaintiff's attorney will review. Many employers are slow to add new regulations to the handbook or stand-alone policies, which leaves gaps i…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Employee Handbook Requirements for 2023. Includes Updated Federal, State and Local Regulations as well as Multi-State Regulations
The pandemic changed what workers expect, and handbook policies that ban now-normal flexibilities can feel out of date. Many organizations still put off updating their employee handbook. This 90-m…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Pay Equity Changes for 2023! What Employers Need to Know to be Compliant
Wage discrimination persists in every state and almost every occupation despite civil rights laws. Women working full time, year-round earn about 83 cents for every dollar earned by non-Hispanic w…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Here We Go Again! The DOL is increasing the Overtime Threshold in 2023. How Will this Impact Employers and Employees?
The overtime threshold is the salary level that helps decide which employees are owed overtime for working more than 40 hours in a workweek. This 90-minute webinar on the DOL overtime threshold ex…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Non-Compete Agreements in the Workplace Will Be banned in 2023!
Roughly one in five American workers, about 30 million people, are bound by a non-compete clause. This non-compete agreements webinar explains what these clauses are and why they have drawn regula…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
New Pregnancy Protections Regulations in the Workplace for 2023! How Should Employers Comply?
Two federal laws address pregnant and nursing employees: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act).
The PWFA r…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
New: I-9 Form to be Launched on August 1, 2023 New: E-Verify Offers Option For Remote Virtual Document Review
DHS changed how employers verify employment eligibility when it updated Form I-9 and created an alternative procedure for E-Verify employers. This 90-minute Form I-9 and E-Verify webinar explains …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
EEO-1 Reporting Deadline Established For 2023! Prepare for Compliance!
The EEO-1 filing window has shifted from year to year, so covered employers need clean data and a plan to upload it on time. This 90-minute EEO-1 reporting webinar explains how to prepare and file…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Finally! The New I-9 Form and The Extension of the DHS Remote Option Has Been Decided for 2023!
Preparing, correcting and auditing Form I-9 is still a headache for many employers. The form is two pages, but its instructions ran to 15 pages and the related manual to more than 70.
This 9…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Fearless Firing: Constructing a Strong Legal Defense for Your Termination Decisions
Employers often avoid terminations because they are hard to carry out and hard to defend. Wrongful termination cases have grown since the late 2000s, bringing litigation costs, fines, penalties an…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
FORM I-9 2022: ICE Announces New Extension Date and Requirements
Form I-9 is only two pages, yet it came with 15 pages of instructions and a manual of more than 70 pages. This 90-minute Form I-9 webinar reviews the redesign DHS proposed to make the form less cu…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Employee Handbook 2022 Update. Includes Updated Federal, State and Local Regulations as well as Multi-State Regulations
Keeping up with workplace laws is hard enough for a company with more than 20 employees in one state, and much harder with locations across several states or countries. This 90-minute multi-state …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
An EEOC Audit May Be Coming Soon! Are You Prepared?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) protects employees from workplace discrimination and has authority to investigate, bring charges, conduct workplace audits and impose penalties. …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
EEO-1 Reporting For 2022: What Are The New Changes
Businesses with 100 or more employees, and some federal contractors with at least 50, must file an annual EEO-1 report with prior-year counts of employees by job category, race, ethnicity and gend…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
2021-2022 Employee Handbook Updates! Includes Updated Federal, State and Local Regulations as well as Multi-State Regulations
An employee handbook can protect your company or expose it. Employment attorneys often ask for the handbook first when preparing workplace claims, so keeping it current with federal, state, local …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Employers Prepare for I-9 Audits by Using a New I-9 Correction and Storage Process That meets Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Requirements!
Preparing for an I-9 audit starts with clean records. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforces employers' duty to verify and reverify work authorization, through random I-9 audits or inv…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Immigration Alert Prepare for I-9 Audits by Using a New I-9 Correction and Storage Process That is accepted by Department of Homeland Security (DHS)!
ICE has signaled that it wants employers to expect an I-9 audit, and it has sharply increased audit numbers and collected large fines and forfeitures, including a $95 million payment by a single e…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
New FMLA Forms with FFCRA Guidelines as Per DOL!
The Department of Labor issued revised FMLA forms after asking the public, through a Request for Information, how well the FMLA regulations were working. At the same time, the Families First Coron…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
What Laws, Regulations and Policies Must Be Part of Your Employee Handbook in 2020?
An employee handbook tells employees what the company expects of them and what they can expect in return. Employees read it when they join, when they consider leaving, and when they consider suing…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
New Department of Labor (DOL) Overtime Regulations
The Department of Labor overtime rule that took effect on January 1, 2020 was estimated to affect 1.3 million workers. It requires exempt salaried employees to earn at least $684 per week, or $35,…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
What Laws, Regulations and Policies Must Be Part of Your Employee Handbook in 2020?
Employees read the handbook when they join, when they think about leaving and when they consider suing. This 90-minute employee handbook webinar explains which laws, regulations and policies it sh…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
What Are The Changes To The New I-9 Form For 2020? Learn What The Changes Are And How Employers Can Prepare For Future Audits By Following This I-9 Internal Audit, Correction And Storage Program Accepted By The Department Of Homeland Security!
USCIS revised the Form I-9 instructions to clear up several points of confusion, yet the form still holds many traps, made worse by the number of I-9s employers complete each year. This 90-minute …
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Many employers are oblivious to the compounding risk as well as they are quite simply unaware of the I9 documents penalties and fines.
Many employers underestimate Form I-9 penalties and assume violations are low risk because no one will report them. In fact, anyone can file a complaint, true or not, and most complaints come from…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Are you prepared for the stringent H-1B Visa approval process in 2019-2020
The H-1B program lets US employers temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations that require highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor's degree or equivalent, in fields suc…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
How to Implement Criminal Background Checks without Violating Current Ban the Box Regulations
Close to 90% of employers run background checks on some applicants or employees, to keep the workplace safe, hire well and avoid negligent hiring claims. But "ban the box" rules have spread widely…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Multi-state Regulation Coordination! Learn How Employers Can Ensure Compliance with Current, New and Proposed State Specific Laws!
Multi-state employment law compliance is hard enough for a company in one state, and much harder with locations across several states or countries. Workplace laws reach staffing, hiring, pay, back…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 90 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
New Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Leave Notice Regulations! What Should Employers do to Ensure Compliance?
Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking affect the workplace more than most employers realize, driving absenteeism, turnover, higher health costs and lost productivity. Laws now protect emp…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 110 Minutes
By: Margie Faulk
Recorded Session
Due Diligence Steps For Form 1099
To avoid IRS penalties for Form 1099 errors, you need to show due diligence: a written plan, trained staff and monitoring to confirm they follow it. Because most 1099 errors the IRS finds start wi…
Industry: HR Compliance Duration: 60 Minutes