CPE Courses

Managing Your Inevitable Workplace Conflicts
Functional organizational conflict: - Is constructive, healthy and cooperative - Is when the parties are talking and focused on achieving a mutually acceptable outcome - Generates new perspectives and ideas - Allows options to be debated - Enables Individuals and teams to grow - A component of high-performing teamsDuring functional conf..

Marijuana in the Workplace
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), studies suggest specific links between marijuana use and adverse consequences in the workplace, such as the increased risk of injury or accidents. One study among postal workers found that employees who tested positive for marijuana on a pre-employment urine drug test had 55 percent more industrial accidents, 85 percent more injuries, and 75 percent grea..

Multistate Handbooks in 2022: When Laws and Policies Collide
With the explosion in litigation in the past decade, employee handbooks have changed from employee benefit explanations to legal compliance manuals. These policy collections have grown even more complex when you are present in multiple states where different laws apply. So, what is an employer to do when they are present in states with different laws and requirements? New handbooks every time? Adding footno..

Non-Resident State Payroll Withholding Requirements
With the market shifts since the COVID-19 pandemic more and more employers are finding the need to hire remote staff which brings with it challenges for non-resident and resident tax withholding. This webinar will give the tools if what is the employers responsibility and what isn’t so employer's can be compliant.Areas CoveredMulti-State withholding rules - What is a residency and how to determine the ..

Now that I’ve Got Them, How Do I Keep Them?
Employee Turnover is an expensive problem. Coupled with the difficulty in hiring, turnover is putting additional pressure on existing employees and managers. It limits growth opportunities, causes stress, morale problems, customer dissatisfaction, and brand damage.Compensation challenges, the demand for job flexibility, an unwillingness to “come to work”, cost of living, and other factors are driving the tu..

Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
There are a couple of key techniques that are specific to remote management. Trust needs to be established quickly when working with remote team members, as well as communicating expectations to collaborate towards successful outcomes. You need tools that will help you to influence others to address differences and establish credibility while learning how to supervise across time zones and even cultures. In..

Payroll in Complicated states of CA, PA and NY
Understanding taxation in each state The significance of the Residency Certification FormReview of Challenges and how to overcome themDetails of NY wage and hour rulesConcerns regarding deductions of wages and over payment rulesUnderstanding state tax withholding requirements and reportingNY Local taxes, disability taxes and how to handleWage Payment and Pay card legislationTerminated employee concernsAreas..

Payroll Record Retention
This webinar will give you the tools to be able better understand the new technology that can be used to allow employees to use ESS (Employee Self Service Portals). Along with how as employers we can still stay compliant in a more paperless environment A detailed review of all kinds of payroll records what should be kept and what should be purged. Discussion on how to have a good record keeping policy for b..

Payroll Rules and Administration Simplified Including New DOL Overtime Rules Plus Inflation and Covid-19 Concerns and Challenges
This webinar covers the complete context of payroll rules and administration made simple. It starts with the basic classification of workers properly classified as Contractors or Workers. Rules for Payment and administration of Contractors outlined. Rules for workers classified as “Exempt” or “Non-Exempt” based on DOL/ FLSA .Rules for payments to exempt and non-exempt employees are examined. Overtime rules ..

Planning and Managing Organizational Change
Turn change into a positive force!Change is inevitable. But when changes are made, many employees lack the broader knowledge of why new systems and structures are necessary. As a result, frontline managers and human resources professionals must partner together and help organizations lead and manage change. This case-study-based seminar will prepare managers responsible for facilitating or implementing chan..

Preventing Sexual Orientation and Transgender ID Discrimination in Your Workplace
For most of us, work is stressful in and of itself. Imagine carrying the added emotional weight of having to deny or suppress one of the most fundamental aspects of who you are: your gender identity and sexual orientation because either one does not conform with society’s norms regarding gender expression.A historic Supreme Court ruling in 2020 outlawed workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation a..

Recruiting 101 and Recruiting 202
Talk to almost any Human Resources professional, staffing, or recruiting agency and they’ll tell you these are unprecedented times. Employers no longer have the upper hand in hiring: candidates do. With businesses at all levels struggling to fill vacancies, how can you compete, not break the budget, and still hire?For some, it might take a massive overhaul of your recruiting program, for others, it’s as sim..

Revolutionize Your HR Practices with Chat GPT: A Technical Webinar for HR Professionals
Are you an HR professional struggling to balance repetitive administrative tasks with strategic initiatives? Do you find it challenging to gather feedback from employees and measure their satisfaction levels? Are you looking for a tool to help identify skill gaps and create effective performance improvement plans?Look no further than Chat GPT - the cutting-edge language model designed by OpenAI that can rev..

Risk Management for Human Resources
HR can play a role in creating and reinforcing a corporate culture that reflects a proactive stance toward risk and risk management by including a risk management perspective in all HR activities: recruitment, onboarding, performance management and the rewards systems. HR can also include the risk management aspects in the leadership development programs and in the leadership pipeline.In today’s constantly ..

Salary History Bans: The Next Pay Equity Frontier in 2022
It’s the job interview question you’d love to dodge: What’s your current, or most recent, salary? A low Figure could limit your starting pay. I high number might make you seem too expensive. Now, several states and cities are banning the question as part of efforts to ensure pay equity for women and minorities, but some companies say the new laws represent yet another intrusion into their businesses.It is o..