CPE Courses
Legal Issues Regarding Service Animals in the Workplace
The public accommodation and the employment parts of the Americans with Disabilities Act have required public entities and employers to “think outside the box” when it comes to accommodating physical or mental impairments that may be considered a disability under the ADA. Does that include the family dog? In this webinar, you will be able to differentiate between a service animal and an animal that is..
Legal Obligations for Employer Recordkeeping
We live in an electronic world. Everyone wants to go green. While employers can keep records electronically, there are legal requirements as to go about keeping these records electronically. It might be tempting to just keep the records indefinitely. Keeping records indefinitely, however, is costly and could hurt you later in court. How do you maintain these records and destroy them properly when they are n..
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in HR
AI is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s a present-day reality reshaping HR practices. This webinar explores how AI can revolutionize key HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and performance management. Attendees will learn how AI-driven tools can automate routine tasks, provide data-driven insights, and enhance decision-making.The session will cover practical applications..
LGBTQIA+ in 2023: Compliance and Best Practices
This program will cover a variety of aspects of the LGBTQIA+ community and its relationship to the workplace. We will discuss the many definitions applying to the LGBTQIA+ community, trends in gender fluidity, the value of “HR as PR” in worker diversity, the antidiscrimination provisions of Title VII and other federal laws to the LGBTQIA+ workers, the application of wage and benefits laws to LGB..
Linking Pay To Performance: Increasing Employee Engagement and Organizational Performance
Organizations spend an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources each year to set their organizational goals. To attain those goals, a company relies on its greatest asset: its employees. Employees who feel recognized demonstrate a stronger desire to help the company grow and succeed. Therefore, having pay for performance system incorporated into your organizational structure could leverage employee en..
Managing Conflict For Productivity
Although conflict may never be comfortable, understanding its causes and learning strategies to address it can relieve much of the stress that it triggers. In this webinar, participants will better understand the nature of conflict, potential sources, and strategies to resolve and prevent it.This session covers how to address conflict in the workplace. The program will provide understanding of conflict as w..
Managing Stress as an Executive Assistant: Getting Out of Overwhelm
Workplace negativity and stress affect more people and organizations today than ever. The advent of the pandemic intensified the level of stress most organizations experienced, whether people were onsite or working from home. Managers and team members alike report being more stressed as they are being asked to do more with less. Learn strategies to reduce your personal stress and create a positive, more pro..
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..
New Form 1099 Reporting Requirements: 2024 Compliance Update
1099s report payments made to non-employee service providers, as well as payments to suppliers and other entities you do business with. Think of your own organization: Can you name all the types of service providers you use? Do you know which payments are reportable on 1099s, and the minimum amounts you must pay before they are reportable? There is a new 1099-k threshold for tax year 2023 that was slated fo..
New Overtime Regulations
Overtime and minimum wage have been a hot topic for the last several years, legislation almost went into in effect in 2017 but was stopped by several states coming forward with legal action. But new legislation was released on April 23, 2024, that have updates beginning as soon as July 1, 2024 to the salary thresholds put employers into the situation to make some key decisions on how to handle there exempt ..
New Pregnancy Protections Regulations in the Workplace for 2024! How Should Employers Comply?
The U.S. Senate passed two acts that help working moms who are pregnant or breastfeeding. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (known as the PUMP Act) were added to the 2023 omnibus spending bill, which now passed the Senate and is headed for a House vote.The PUMP Act: The PUMP Act for nursing mothers requires organizations to provide time a..
New Thinking on Employee Performance Management
Performance management systems, while intended to enhance employee performance and development, often face criticism due to various challenges and shortcomings. Some key complaints about performance management include:Subjectivity and Bias: Critics argue that performance evaluations can be subjective and prone to bias. Managers may exhibit favoritism, and personal relationships can influence ratings, leadin..
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..
Offboarding with Care: Conducting Legal and Ethical Employee Terminations
If an employer has exhausted all the necessary steps to help the employee improve his or her work performance and those steps are not working – it may be time to terminate the employee.Terminating an employee is not only stressful for the employee losing a job, but also for the employer. There are legal and ethical steps to take when you terminate an employee. The company must ensure its actions are above r..