People Policy & Compliance Specialist (Temporary/Contract)

What You'll Do

• Build the policy inventory.
• Create and maintain a complete inventory of existing HR, handbook, and time-away policies across both legacy companies and flag the policies the combined company will need.
• Compare and reconcile legacy IGT and Everi HR policies, the employee handbook, and leave/time-off/attendance programs.
• Load existing IGT and Everi policies into AI tools to accelerate comparison and generate first-draft harmonized language.
• Draft the unified handbook.
• Reconcile PTO, holiday, leave-of-absence, and attendance policies.
• Partner with HR, Legal, and business leaders to socialize recommendations.
• Ensure every harmonized policy meets applicable federal, state, and local requirements.
• Build the manager guidance and employee communications needed to roll policies out.
• Lend your expertise to related compliance efforts across the integration.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in HR policy, employee relations, or HR generalist work, including hands-on policy writing and employee-handbook development.
• Demonstrated experience developing compliant policies at the state, federal, and global level.
• Comfortable working hands-on with AI.
• M&A or integration experience preferred.
• Deep working knowledge of U.S. employment and leave law (FMLA, ADA, state leave/PTO and pay-transparency rules).
• Exceptional plain-language writing skills.
• Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across HR, Legal, and the business.
• Highly organized and self-directed.

What's in It for You

• Own a highly visible, enterprise-wide deliverable that shapes the daily experience of 6,000+ employees.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior People & Culture and Legal leaders.
• A clearly scoped engagement with real authorship; the handbook and policies you write become the standard.