HR Compliance
ADA Accommodation and Compliance: What should the Process between Employer and Employee should look like?
This webinar explores the issue of what should the process be between employer and employee when trying to accommodate individuals with disabilities while complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. All companies, employees, and applicants for employment that want to learn about who is covered under The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended (ADAAA) by should attend this webinar to o..
Advanced Decision Making
Decision-making is a critical business skill that requires knowledge of cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics, decision theory, and host of other disciplines. Most business people are never trained in the decision-making process. In this webinar, you will be introduced to advanced concepts of decision-making and learn some fundamental skills to help you lead your groups and organizations through a so..
Appraising Credibility, Reaching Conclusions & Writing the Investigative Report: Steps to Minimize Harassment Liability
Writing the investigative report actually begins from the very beginning of your investigation and continues throughout the process. This webinar will discuss the intricacies of writing the critical final report of your investigation that may be discoverable (all documents that must be provided to opposing counsel in case of a lawsuit) if an employee files a formal charge with the EEOC or your state’s human..
Are Your I-9's in Order?
To gain the Peace of Mind – knowing that all of your I-9’s are correct, you are using the most up to date form and no penalties will be issued in the event of an ICE audit. With over 17 years in business, the presenter has conducted hundreds of I-9 audits. Of those, one organization was 100% correct. That’s a very low percentage rate. Compliance is not difficult if you know what you are doing.Areas CoveredL..
Avoid Liabilities-Perfect Your Understanding of Payroll Tax Withholding
Paying employees is one of the biggest expenses for a company. Any company that has employees is required to withhold and pay payroll taxes. In addition to what you withhold from an employee, there are taxes that you as an employer must pay. The size of your business, where you are located, where your employees live and work; all of these things factor into what you must withhold from employee’s wages and w..
Avoiding The Misclassification Trap
The U.S. Department of Labor is actively clamping down on the improper use of exemptions that allow employers to avoid paying overtime to employees. They are scrutinizing employers’ use of the managerial, administrative, professional, sales, and computer professional exemptions. Mistakes in this area can cost employers thousands of dollars in back pay and fines and a permanent readjustment of how employees ..
Background Checks
This webinar is for employers who are contemplating whether to implement Background Checks and for those who are currently doing them but wish to learn more about their options. It is an introductory and general review of the subject as the laws and practices vary from state-to-state.Areas Covered Deciding whether to do background checks or notThe importance of written policyWho to check and what to check f..
Basic and Meaningful HR Metrics
This session will discuss the basic HR metrics that all HR departments should have. It will describe the links between HR and organizational performance. It will also discuss how to select and calculate appropriate measures, balancing costs vs. value creation and how to improve productivity.Learning ObjectivesDescribe the links between HR and organizational performanceSelect and calculate appropriate measur..
Basic Workers Compensation Claim Management Investigation and Reporting ‘Best Practices’
Workers Compensation insurance basically is set up to pay for an injured worker's medical treatment and lost wages. This sounds relatively simple, but the details can quickly become overwhelming to a person unfamiliar or new to the process. Unless you are prepared and know what to expect. The key players are identified in our discussion. Key activities and steps to have in place BEFORE a claim occurs are al..
Behavioral Interviews-500% More Effective Than Traditional Methods
Regardless of skill, hiring a person who is a bad fit is the wrong decision. In fact, traditional interviewing predicts future success by only 10%. With a bad fit, the employee is never going to reach optimum performance, be fully engaged, and they are likely to leave. The company is then left with another expensive recruitment along with the disruption of having talent walk out the door. (Recruiting expens..
Best Practices For How To Structure And Write A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Using a library of SOP’s to help organize and control your operations is just good business sense. This is particularly important in high-risk and critical operations, construction or industrial, where a mistake can be costly or result in catastrophic accidents or failures.One of the prime reasons to create an SOP is to predict and eliminate incidents, errors, accidents, failures, poor quality outcomes, etc..
Best Practices for HR Ensuring Confidentiality of Medical Records
Human resource professionals are entrusted with keeping employees medical records confidential. There are many related but different federal laws that have medical record confidentiality provisions. What is a medical record under one law that may not be a medical record under another law? To fully comply one needs to be not just familiar with but proficient with the various employment laws and the need for ..
Best Practices for NEW Managers
Unfortunately, being good at your job doesn’t guarantee that you will be a good leader or manager. Yes, you were good enough to get promoted but being a manager has challenges you never dealt with when you were an employee. The transition to management isn’t just a promotion and a pay raise—it’s a shift into a new type of role that requires new skill sets and you are bound to trip up along the way when you ..
Best Practices for Retaining Millennials and Other Employees
The Millennial generation is a force to be reckoned with. They are talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, and creative. They are also highly mobile and prone to job-hopping. Retaining top talent is a key business imperative and old strategies are no longer effective.More than 60% of Millennials leave their company in less than three years and their turnover is greater than any other generation. In addition,..
Best Practices in Hiring - This would include Sourcing, Screening, Selection and Onboarding
This webinar will highlight several best practices in the hiring lifecycle from finding great candidates to converting the best of them into new members of your team and getting them up to speed as quickly as possible.It will include proven approaches in the following areasWhere to find candidates, both through paid and free sources, how to screen candidatesHow to screen candidates, through their resumes, L..