Speaker Profile
MELVEEN STEVENSON
Melveen Stevenson is the CEO and founder of M.S.Elemental, a human resources advisory and training firm based in the Midwest. As a certified HR professional with a background in accounting and finance, she helps companies to navigate the human resources “jungle” of compliance, human capital, and leadership challenges. In doing so, she empowers companies to strengthen their infrastructure from the inside out, specifically through leadership development, operations, training, employee engagement, and executive coaching. She is also specialized in California employment HR practices and regulations. Melveen speaks on key topics to empower companies with the latest research and best practices for increasing engagement, enhancing leadership presence, and optimizing diverse workforce groups. Over the last 20 years, Melveen has held leadership positions in human resources operations, supply chain, and talent management at international companies in food manufacturing, medical devices, and consumer products. She is also a faculty member of California State University.
Melveen Stevenson
April 24 2024
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Get On Board Now: Trends in AI for Human Resources
You hear and read about the hype every day: AI! ChatGPT! Bing Chat! It’s easy! It’s going to eliminate jobs! It will make our lives easier!What’s fiction and what’s fact? While the current state of AI is trending toward more use cases and multiple implications, one thing is certain: AI is not going away any time soon. As with high-tech developments we’ve seen in recent years, the key is to jump in now to un..
Melveen Stevenson
March 27 2024
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Disability Rules Under the ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law just over thirty years ago. Intended to be a transformational law, today we see a huge shift in reaping benefits to workers and job applicants, including civil rights recognition by employers; ramps and other physical enhancements in work areas; and the integration of workers with visible and not-so-visible disabilities so that they can actively partic..
Melveen Stevenson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Basic Accounting and Finance for the Human Resources Professional
To strengthen the value of human resources in any company, HR professionals need to know the language of business, and that includes the financial components that have traditionally measured business progress and success. This course is designed to help you do just that. Even if you’ve never taken an accounting or finance course, this webinar will give you the foundational understanding you need to im..
Melveen Stevenson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
California Meal and Rest Breaks: What You Don’t Know Can Cost You
California statutes pertaining to meal and rest periods for non-exempt employees are one of the more confusing topics in today’s business environment. This course is designed to provide you with a practical foundation for understanding the law. It includes guidelines for how to properly create and administer your own meal and rest period policy. Or, if your company already has its own policy, then this info..
Melveen Stevenson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The New Overtime Rules: Get Yourself and Your Workforce Ready
Overtime rules are nothing new. We know that certain employees must be paid overtime rates when working more than forty hours per week. Other workers are not subject to overtime rules. What is very possibly changing, however, is the Department of Labor’s salary basis that contributes to the delineation between these groups. Currently, exemptions for workers of overtime rates under the Fair Labor Standards A..
HR Files Know-How: Keeping Your Employment Records (and You) Organized
Any HR professional knows that a major part of their responsibility is keeping the company’s personnel files organized – for many legal reasons, but also it helps to keep your operations go smoothly. Just as important, it helps keep you organized so you won’t derail or become distracted during your already busy day.This course will give you a framework for your recordkeeping and employee-related retention s..
Independent Contractors: Issues, Practices, and Steps to Successfully and Legally Staff Your Company
Companies meet their staffing needs by using a variety of arrangements. Besides the hiring of traditional employees, employers can use contingent employees such as temporary employees, seasonal employees, and leased workers hired through temporary staffing agencies. A growing number of companies are leveraging independent contractors, especially because a larger percentage of the workforce is preferencing "..
It Smells and It’s Making Me Sick: Employer Responsibility Around Fragrance and Odor Sensitivity and Workplace Accommodation
When the subject of workplace accommodations comes up, most managers and supervisors think about the more common situations such as an employee recovering after surgery. Or perhaps, they recall an employee who had an ongoing physical – and mostly visible - disability. These days, however, employees are approaching their employers with health problems triggered and perpetuated by odor and fragrance sensitivi..
Top Habits of Highly Successful HR Departments
Any HR professional knows that there is never a lack of work in their department. From replying to an employee’s question about benefits to following-up with a manager on how to best restructure her department, there seem to be fewer hours in the day to accomplish all the tasks that HR needs to do. And this is the perfect reason why it makes sense to stop, assess, and understand what highly successf..