Crosswalk pair
ESG Essentials and US Employment Law - Federal Baseline, control by control
5 canonical controls in Keel’s library satisfy clauses of both ESG Essentials and US Employment Law - Federal Baseline. Implement each once, attach the evidence once, and it counts toward each standard. The overlap is the work you don’t repeat.
The overlap
What the two libraries have in common
Every figure here counts canonical controls in Keel’s library, not clauses of either standard. Each standard’s own authored count is on its framework page.
5
Controls that satisfy both
Canonical controls that crosswalk to at least one clause of each.
36
In Keel’s library for ESG Essentials
14% of them also map to US Employment Law - Federal Baseline.
11
In Keel’s library for US Employment Law - Federal Baseline
45% of them also map to ESG Essentials.
9
Evidence artifacts expected
Across the shared controls, from Keel’s evidence guidance. Gathered once.
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ESG Essentials 14%
5 controls of 36 in Keel’s library for ESG Essentials also map to US Employment Law - Federal Baseline.
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US Employment Law - Federal Baseline 45%
5 controls of 11 in Keel’s library for US Employment Law - Federal Baseline also map to ESG Essentials.
The mapping
Controls that satisfy both
Each row is one control in Keel’s library and the clauses it answers on each side. Do the work once; both columns are then evidenced by the same artifacts.
| Canonical control | ESG Essentials clauses | US Employment Law - Federal Baseline clauses |
|---|---|---|
| People & Culture | ||
| Anti-discrimination & accommodation program A published anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy with reporting routes, a documented investigation procedure, and a consistent process for handling accommodation requests. | S.3 | us.antidiscrim.title-vii, us.antidiscrim.ada, us.antidiscrim.adea, us.antidiscrim.gina, us.antidiscrim.pregnancy, us.antidiscrim.pwfa |
| Fair labor practices Compliance with wage, hour, and anti-discrimination obligations for all workers. | S.3, S.13 | us.wage-hour.minimum-wage, us.wage-hour.overtime, us.wage-hour.child-labor, us.pay-equity.equal-pay-act, us.pay-equity.title-vii-compensation |
| Health & safety program A safe working environment with incident recording, review, and corrective action. Recording is not the end of it where the law says otherwise: the incidents that meet a statutory reporting threshold - a death at work, and the serious outcomes the regime names, such as an admission to hospital, an amputation or the loss of an eye - are reported to the regulator within the window that regime sets, counted from when the organization learned of the event, and someone is accountable for making that call quickly enough that the window can still be met. | S.1 | us.health-safety.general-duty, us.health-safety.injury-recordkeeping, us.health-safety.severe-incident-reporting |
| Protected activity & labor relations Policies, handbooks, and manager practice are reviewed so they do not restrain employees acting together on terms and conditions of employment. | S.14 | us.labor.nlra-protected-activity |
| Worker classification review Exempt/non-exempt and employee/contractor determinations are documented against the governing tests and re-reviewed when a role or engagement changes. | S.12 | us.classification.exempt, us.classification.independent-contractor |
Beyond the pair
Where else this work counts
A framework is lit when a shared control above also maps to it. Unlit means none of them do — an absence, not a judgment about that standard.
Also reached by these 5 controls
- AI Governance Essentials
- Amazon Appstore Child-Directed Apps
- Apple App Store Kids Category
- CIS Critical Security Controls
- COPPA
- EU AI Act
- GDPR
- Google Play Families
- HIPAA
- ISO 9001
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO/IEC 42001
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST SP 800-171
- NIST SP 800-53
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404
Nearby pairs
The thesis
Why this is one project, not two
On a crosswalk-native model, US Employment Law - Federal Baseline mostly lights up controls you already built for ESG Essentials. You’re not re-uploading the same screenshot for a second audit. You apply the framework and see the genuine delta worth working. That’s the whole idea behind collect once, comply everywhere.
Next step
Add US Employment Law - Federal Baseline to the work you already did
Apply both frameworks in one workspace and see the overlap measured against the controls you already hold.