About Human Solutions: Simplifying HR for People who Love HR
Welcome to Human Solutions, a show that simplifies HR for people who love HR. Each week, we’ll showcase a bite-sized conversation dedicated to helping you get your arms around an HR challenge. Who are we? From talent management, training, and compliance to compensation analysis and onsite services, AIM HR Solutions is committed to meeting you and your organizations where you are. The people on this show have decades of experience developing solutions for the issues you’re facing right now. This show is their chance to share.
Immigration 101 for Employers: with Shiva Karimi and Kallee McGraw
Immigration is moving fast enough right now that any specific rule could be stale by the time you hear it. So this month, Pete Wright sets the headlines aside and asks for something more durable: a framework. What really lands on an employer’s desk, where do the mistakes hide, and how do you keep up without guessing?
Shiva Karimi, Chair of the Immigration Practice Group at McLane Middleton, opens with her Immigration 101: three buckets that explain who can work in the United States and for how long. Kallee McGraw, Senior HR Services Coordinator at AIM HR Solutions, follows with the view from someone who has reviewed thousands of I-9s, and she’s candid about where they go wrong. From there the conversation turns to the change that matters most this year: ICE’s revised fact sheet, which moved a long list of errors from the correctable column to the fineable one with no notice and no rulemaking.
Along the way: how an audit actually unfolds, what counts toward the fine, why an internal audit has to look at everyone, what to do when an employee brings the wrong document, and the one golden opportunity an acquisition offers to start the I-9 file over from scratch. The episode closes on Massachusetts’s new PROTECT Act and its 48-hour employee notice requirement, plus three things to do Monday morning.
Links & Notes
AIM HR Solutions free I-9 Compliance Checklist: “Is Your I-9 Paperwork Audit-Ready?” (https://aimhrsolutions.com/is-your-i-9-paperwork-audit-ready/)
AIM HR Solutions I-9 Audit and Remediation Services (https://aimhrsolutions.com/services/compliance/i-9-audits/)
USCIS I-9 Central (current form, instructions, and guidance) (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central)
Massachusetts guidance for employers on the PROTECT Act I-9 notice requirement (https://www.mass.gov/doc/lwd-guidance-on-new-i-9-state-law-notice-requirement/download)
Shiva Karimi, McLane Middleton (https://www.mclane.com/staff/shiva-karimi)
AIM HR Helpline: 800-470-6277, helpline@aimnet.org (mailto:helpline@aimnet.org), Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET
AIM HR Solutions Training Catalog (https://aimhrsolutions.com/training/)
AIM members can reach the HR Helpline at 800-470-6277 or helpline@aimnet.org for inquiries Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST). Email requests will be responded to within 24 hours.
15 Sept 2026
10 HR Myths That Could Get Employers in Trouble
"We're in an at-will state." "She never said the words 'reasonable accommodation.'" Many of the most expensive HR mistakes begin with something that sounds like common sense. In this episode, Terry Cook and Tom Jones of AIM HR Solutions work through ten of the most common HR myths, covering terminations, resignations, harassment complaints, paid family and medical leave, accommodations, social media, and the surprisingly durable idea that the safest handbook is no handbook at all.
Pete plays the manager hunting for a loophole. Terry and Tom are the people who have taken that call on the AIM HR Helpline more times than they can count. What comes out of it is a practical map of where the law actually sits, and what to do instead when the easy answer turns out to be the expensive one.
Links & Notes
AIM HR Helpline (AIM members) (https://aimnet.org/hr-helpline/) — 800-470-6277 | Helpline@aimnet.org | Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET
AIM HR Roundtables, including the September 23 Western Mass sessions in Pittsfield and Palmer (https://my.aimnet.org/Register-for-an-Event-Class/HR-Roundtables)
AIM HR Solutions Employee Handbook Services (https://aimhrsolutions.com/services/compliance/employee-handbooks/)
AIM HR Solutions Training Catalog (https://aimhrsolutions.com/training/)
AIM members can reach the HR Helpline at 800-470-6277 or helpline@aimnet.org for inquiries Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST). Email requests will be responded to within 24 hours.
18 Aug 2026
Why Employees Ignore Their Benefits and How HR Can Help
Companies spend real money on benefits their employees might not understand. Mary McNally of AIM HR Solutions joins Pete Wright to talk about why that happens, and why the forty-page PDF sent once a year is doing almost none of the work employers think it's doing.
Mary makes the case that high enrollment and real understanding are two different measurements, and that most of the confusion is the employer's to fix. She walks through the checklist she uses with clients, the generational split in how information actually lands, what AI can do with a summary plan description and what it still can't, and how to talk with an employee who feels the company went back on a promise as costs climb.
Also in this one: the year-round cadence that takes about five minutes at a time, how to run a benefits focus group without turning it into a wish list, and the phone call every employee should make before a scheduled procedure.
AIM members can reach the HR Helpline at 800-470-6277 or helpline@aimnet.org for inquiries Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST). Email requests will be responded to within 24 hours.
AIM HR Solutions Training Catalog (https://aimhrsolutions.com/training/)
AIM members can reach the HR Helpline at 800-470-6277 or helpline@aimnet.org for inquiries Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST). Email requests will be responded to within 24 hours.
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