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A wide range of regulations apply to employment and the workplace. These regulations concern the following aspects of your business:

• Employee discipline and termination
• Hiring practices
• Sexual harassment, intimidation, or other offensive acts
• Discriminatory hiring or unfair employment practices
• Wages and hours
• Work environment
• Workplace safety
• Recruitment and retention of employees 

Governments — often state governments — require companies incorporated within a state to keep and provide records relating to the operation of business. Those requirements might apply to the following elements of a business:

• Information about annual directors’ meetings
• A company’s bylaws and updates of those bylaws
• A company’s provision of stock to shareholders
• All of a company’s stock transfers
• Company records on major business transactions
• Updates or important changes to the operations of a company

• NIST Standards: These standards were set up by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency, to guide compliance with some regulations.
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ISO 19600: The ISO is an international body that sets standards in a range of industrial, commercial, and other areas. Its ISO 19600 standard offers guidance on how organizations can set up and maintain a system of compliance management.
• ISO/IEC 27002: This is a standard that recommends best practices to ensure appropriate security for information technology systems.
• COBIT: This is a framework that recommends best practices for managing and governing information technology. The COBIT framework was created by an information technology professional association called the Information Systems Audit and Control Association — now known only by its acronym, ISACA. (Learn more about information security and enterprise security here.)