HRANSWERSNOW^TM From CCH Provides Expert Solutions To Common HR Questions

(RIVERWOODS, ILL., March 21, 2002) – Now there’s a way for human resource professionals in small and medium-sized organizations to find the answers they need to do their jobs without incurring hefty bills for outside consultants or lawyers and without engaging in hours of tedious legal research. HRAnswersNow^TM from CCH INCORPORATED (CCH), a leading provider of human resources and employment law information and software, provides expert HR guidance in an easy-to-use format over the Internet.

HRAnswersNow is designed especially to help those with HR responsibility in small and medium-sized firms.

"This is where you often find one person charged with a wide range of HR tasks, from writing job descriptions to explaining the 401(k) plan," said Tanya Rose, marketing manager for CCH’s human resources group. "Someone in that situation can’t spend all day researching questions and can’t afford to pay outside experts for advice on every new issue that comes up," she added.

HRAnswersNow guides users to the solutions they seek in an easy to navigate, question-and-answer style. Someone who needs to know whether some garnishments have priority over others would simply click on "Payroll deductions, garnishment and child support" on the main topical menu. Up pops a series of questions, including "What if there are multiple garnishments or wage assignments against an employee’s wages?" Clicking on that selection brings up the easy-to-understand answer.

HRAnswersNow covers the issues that matter most to HR professionals in small and medium-sized organizations on a day-to-day basis – topics such as recordkeeping, staffing, compensation, benefits, employee development, employee relations, discrimination and workplace safety. From the requirements of COBRA to writing job descriptions to HR’s role in mergers and acquisitions, HRAnswersNow focuses on what the professional needs to know and do to comply with legal requirements and contribute to the effectiveness of the enterprise.

HR executives and generalists will both find that HRAnswersNow speeds their workflow, with dozens of forms, checklists and other tools ready to customize and use.

Addressing State Issues, Keeping Current

HRAnswersNow also contains direct links to HR Legistate^TM, a separate, web-based resource for authoritative, up-to-the-minute federal and state employment law summaries, information and analysis organized by jurisdiction and topic. This allows subscribers to make sure their policies and procedures meet the requirements of the states in which they operate. Users can subscribe to any three, or to all 50 jurisdictions covered by HR Legistate.

To keep current, subscribers to HRAnswersNow have access to a bimonthly electronic newsletter, News and Trends, that informs them of the latest developments in the HR field. Headlines from the newsletter are e-mailed directly to subscribers’ desktops, alerting them to new laws, rulings, surveys and trends.

For more information or to order HRAnswersNow, call 1-800-449-9525 or visit the CCH online store at hr.cch.com/onlinestore. Price for a single-user one-year subscription to HRAnswersNow is $399. HRAnswersNow and the three-state version of HR Legistate are $499 when purchased together. HRAnswersNow and HR Legistate, with all-state coverage, are $799 when purchased together.

Subscribers to HRAnswersNow can also save when they add Policies Now^TM to HRAnswersNow. Policies Now walks users through every step of creating an employee handbook and then publishing it – in print or online. Users are walked through a simple question-and-answer process to ensure that policies are both customized to their organizations and legally compliant.

Users save $79 off individual prices when they purchase HRAnswersNow and Policies Now together, $178 when they purchase Policies Now in conjunction with HRAnswersNow and HR Legistate.

CCH INCORPORATED, founded in 1913, has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The company produces approximately 700 print and electronic products for securities, tax, legal, banking, securities, human resources, health care and small business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer North America. The CCH web site can be accessed at cch.com. The CCH human resources web site can be accessed at hr.cch.com.

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