HR Compliance
Leading the Next Generation: Managing Generation Z in the Workplace
As managers and leaders, it's important for us to understand this generation and how to effectively work with them. By doing so, we can not only improve our own leadership skills but also create a more productive and positive work environment for everyone. So let's explore what makes Generation Z tick!We are going to deep dive into their generation. How and where they grew up. Normally using technology, com..
Legal and Ethical Challenges for Employers: An Increase In Burnout, Stress, and Mental Illness
Employers are seeing more mental health issues in their workforce than ever before. Long COVID has enhanced mental health concerns even more. Each year 1 in 5 adults is stricken with a mental illness (National Institute of Mental Health), making mental illness an everyday reality for many of your employees. Yet only 1 in 3 people seek help with their illness. The ADA, HIPPA, FMLA, and most states’ human/civ..
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..
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..
Mastering Unemployment Hearings: A Comprehensive Guide for HR Professionals
Unemployment hearings have emerged as a critical aspect of HR management, requiring a nuanced understanding of legal frameworks, documentation, and strategic communication. This session offers a deep dive into the complexities of unemployment hearings, addressing key topics such as legal considerations, documentation best practices, and effective communication strategies. Participants will gain ..
Mental Illness, ADAAA, and the Workplace: Taking Responsibility as an Employer
More and more people are complaining of feeling depressed, hopeless, and just plain out of sorts. Therapists indicate that more and more people are seeking therapy, especially since the 2016 election. Millennials, the largest workgroup in our workplaces, have an increase in depression. These are your employees—what are your responsibilities as a manager or HR professional in recognizing and helping them? Ho..
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 Employee Orientation and Onboarding for Retention and Success
Onboarding is a new approach to employee orientation that goes beyond just settling your employees in. It engages, integrates, and gets your new hires productive quicker — directly improving retention rates and the overall success of your organization. Research shows that a systematic comprehensive onboarding process is good business. In fact, formal onboarding increases the chance of keeping a new employee..
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 put into effect as of 1/1/2020, are you aware of the changes and are you in compliance with the new exempt requirements? In Aug of 2023, there was new proposed legislation that has not ..
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..