Canal HR

Canal HR is a licensed professional employer organisation serving employers in the New Orleans area and across Louisiana. When a business outsources to it, Canal HR effectively acts as that business's personnel department.

What Canal HR offers

• Payroll services: preparing payroll, paying employment taxes and filing quarterly and year-end returns including W-2 forms.
• Workers' compensation: coverage backed by a safety and risk management team that includes a company nurse.
• Claims management and safety programmes: active handling of claims and help with workplace safety.
• Employee benefits: major medical, life, dental, disability and cancer cover.
• HR support: keeping clients informed on changes in employment law.

Customers and markets

The firm targets employers who lack time to follow Louisiana payroll tax rules. It says its large pool of insured employees allows group discounts on workers' compensation.

Key facts

• Based in: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
• Status: licensed PEO