Comprehensive Training for HR Managers (2-Day)

The Law and Employment

• Surprising information about who's eligible for overtime pay
• How to calculate overtime now — it has changed, and it's not simple
• The employee who doesn't want the transfer — can your company legally enforce it?
• Military service and active duty — can they be considered family leave?
• Is it ever illegal for an employee to hold a second job while on leave from your company?
• The key to replacing the aging workforce without breaking the law
• Is your employee handbook consistent with the latest changes in employment law?

Discrimination and Compliance

• The latest on the ADA Amendments Act and how reforms impact your company
• Danger areas for age discrimination — how to be sure your company is legally safe
• Why your website should be in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act
• Visible vs. perceived disabilities — the differences may affect the way you treat applicants and employees
• What you must do to accommodate hearing-impaired applicants
• Genetic testing: a question of legality
• The real meaning of "reasonable accommodation"
• Strategies for coordinating short- and long-term disability with ADA, FMLA and workers' comp
• Reverse discrimination — could your organization be found guilty?

Recruiting, Interviewing and Hiring

• When you must require medical certification, make inquiries and document your findings
• Changes to ensure your job application forms are discrimination-proof
• How to test applicants legally
• Social media as a recruitment tool
• Define terms of use for social media
• Tips that turn a job description into your company's most powerful tool in the hiring process
• Dos and don'ts for the interview process — questions you must never ask
• Reference checking — how to legally get the information you want
• Two recruitment enticements you can add without cost
• The legal landmine of employee contractual commitments
• Why non-compete agreements aren't holding up in court
• Guidelines for walking the legal tightrope of managing contract labor

Benefits Administration and Management

• New privacy rules regarding health insurance
• Situations in which medical authorization forms are not required
• What you're responsible for if a former employee is late with COBRA payments
• When an accident should be considered a worker's comp claim
• Workers' Comp: what to do if an employee is injured at a company social function
• Health insurance your company is required by law to provide
• How to handle COBRA benefits when an employee divorces
• What you should know about disabled employees seeking early social security qualification
• Changes in how the IRS sees cafeteria benefit plans
• The latest on domestic partner qualification — how it affects benefits eligibility
• When — and how — your company should provide bereavement support

Best Practices in Human Resource Management

• The No. 1 communication skill you need in Human Resources
• Three things you can do to make your company one of the "top places to work"
• Human Resources functions you should consider outsourcing, and which ones absolutely must not be outsourced
• Workplace bullying and your organization's liability
• How your dress code may inadvertently discriminate
• Steps you can take to handle employee grief when coworkers are downsized

Handling Employment Hot Spots

• A closer look at companywide diversity training
• Proactive ways to protect your organization and employees from workplace violence
• Tips to reduce your company's liability in the event of workplace violence
• Depression in the workplace and how to deal with it
• OSHA and the General Duty clause — your company's responsibilities now
• When workplace violence is considered an OSHA violation
• Drug and alcohol testing — what's legal, what's not
• ADA protections of substance abusers and how not to put your company at risk
• Liability in drug testing — how to protect your company
• The best way to successfully and tactfully investigate sexual harassment claims
• How the EEOC defines a "hostile work environment" — it goes beyond sexual harassment
• Ways to limit your company's liability in the event customers or vendors harass your employees
• What the court says about victims of harassment and adverse employment actions

Discipline and Discharge

• The 360 degree feedback and performance appraisals — good or bad?
• The subtle way your organization might be guilty of discrimination in the disciplinary process
• How to document disciplinary actions to protect your company
• Termination guidelines that hold up in court

Observing the Letter of the Law

• The latest on arbitration agreements: how to avoid having a favorable decision thrown out
• Defamation of character — is your company liable for comments made by an employee?
• How the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) affects your organization's responsibilities if you downsize
• What documentation you must provide, what to keep, what to destroy
• And much, much more that will clear up the gray areas and make you more valuable on the job