- December
- 15: Implementing SECURE 2.0 — Helping Employees Work Toward Financial Wellness
- 14: Maximizing Your Team's Potential: The Performance Review Framework
- 13: Revise Your Job Descriptions: A Workshop for HR & Managers
- 8: Negativity Detox: A Workshop for Managers
- 6: Accommodate or Terminate? How to Legally Draw the Line
- 1: Successful 1099 Filing: How to Avoid Fines and Penalties and Comply with Tough New Regulations
- November
- 30: Employee Benefits Trends for 2024
- 29: Employee Handbook Checklist: Required Changes for 2024
- 17: Goal Setting: Preparing You and Your Team for 2024
- 16: Motivation-Based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best
- 15: Employment Law Master Class
- 14: Payroll Compliance: Preparing for Year-End and 2024
- 10: California HR Law: New Laws, New Rules for Employers
- 9: New Overtime Regulations: How to Implement the Rule Changes
- 8: Personnel Records: What to Create and Keep, What to Toss and When
- 2: The New Rules for Religious Accommodations
- 1: Complying with New Pregnancy and Postpartum Accommodation Rules
- October
- 31: The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction
- 27: New Managers: Master the Art of Leadership, Communication & Team Building
- 25-26: Payroll Compliance Workshop
- 24: New Overtime Regulations: How to Implement the Rule Changes
- 20: HR Best Practices: Align Your Efforts and Solve the Talent Shortage
- 19: HR Investigations Workshop: A Guide to Legal & Effective Inquiries
- 13: Workplace Detox: Strategies for Managing Malcontents and Toxic Employees
- 12: Step Up and Stop Under-Managing
- 11: FMLA Master Class
- 6: Advanced Interviewing Tactics: Leverage Résumé Analysis, Artful Questioning to Increase Quality of Hire
- 5: Artificial Intelligence: Avoiding Inherent Discrimination Risks
- 4: Legal Terminations: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes and Lawsuits
December
December 15, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
15: Implementing SECURE 2.0 — Helping Employees Work Toward Financial Wellness
Thanks to SECURE 2.0, HR teams can assist employees in saving for retirement. By proactively assisting employees in their retirement planning, you show that you care about their long-term financial well-being. This fosters a sense of belonging and commitment that leads to higher employee retention rates.
The legislation provides HR departments with a clear framework to ensure compliance with retirement savings regulations. Staying ahead of the curve not only mitigates legal risks but also positions your organization as a forward-thinking employer, making you more attractive to top talent.
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December 14, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
14: Maximizing Your Team’s Potential: The Performance Review Framework
You may think of job descriptions as a recruiting tool, but they are legal documents. Outdated, inaccurate, or non-existing job descriptions will spark trouble. Without one, good luck persuading the DOL that you’ve properly classified managers and supervisors as exempt from overtime. The same goes for proving what’s an essential function. If you don’t list it, it’s not essential.
he pandemic permanently changed the landscape of the American workplace. Telework, hybrid schedules, and Zoom meetings are here to stay. And with that, your employees have assumed new tech skills, new duties, and new responsibilities that must be reflected in their job descriptions.
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December 13, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
13: Revise Your Job Descriptions: A Workshop for HR & Managers
You may think of job descriptions as a recruiting tool, but they are legal documents. Outdated, inaccurate, or non-existing job descriptions will spark trouble. Without one, good luck persuading the DOL that you’ve properly classified managers and supervisors as exempt from overtime. The same goes for proving what’s an essential function. If you don’t list it, it’s not essential.
The pandemic permanently changed the landscape of the American workplace. Telework, hybrid schedules, and Zoom meetings are here to stay. And with that, your employees have assumed new tech skills, new duties, and new responsibilities that must be reflected in their job descriptions. Consider this: At what point does your teleworker lose her exempt status when she’s doing all her own administrative work — tasks once relegated to support staff? But what language should you delete from those old job descriptions — and what exactly replaces it?
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December 8, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
8: Negativity Detox: A Workshop for Managers
When confronted with employees who complain, criticize, or try to stir up trouble, managers often feel frustrated and helpless. They may quickly assume that there is no way to change these “personality problems,” so they do their best to contain the damage. However, tolerating such harmful behaviors is definitely NOT the smartest strategy. Chronic negativity frequently starts with only one or two employees, but it can quickly infect an entire department, ruin a culture — and impact the business. When this happens, the inevitable result is reduced productivity, damaged morale, and eventually increased turnover. Wise managers need to work to nip negativity in the bud.
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December 6, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
6: Accommodate or Terminate? How to Legally Draw the Line
It’s a question that troubles most employers when dealing with accommodations. At what point have you done enough to offer extra leave, revised job tasks, changes to workstations or modified schedules? When must you say “yes” to such accommodations, when can you say “no” and when is it legal to say goodbye? And what about employees who are hesitant to return to the post-pandemic workplace? (Terminating workers with medical or mental health issues is one of the riskiest legal moves.)
Get the legal details to navigate that dangerous legal line at Accommodate or Terminate. This 60-minute webinar (plus 15 minutes for Q&A time) covers all your compliance obligations under the ADA, FMLA and other related laws.
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December 1, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
1: Successful 1099 Filing: How to Avoid Fines and Penalties and Comply with Tough New Regulations
The IRS has rolled out extensive new e-filing requirements that change the way you count 1099s to determine whether you’re a mandatory e-filer. These requirements drop the mandatory e-filing threshold substantially, guaranteeing even the smallest employers will be snagged. Larger employers aren’t off the hook, either. Also, employers face intense new scrutiny of their 1099s from the IRS — and forms filed in the wrong medium (even correct forms!) can trigger millions of dollars in tax penalties.
There is also a new, simplified e-filing platform from the IRS. IRIS debuted for filing 2022 1099s, but it’s still a work in progress. The agency says IRIS is just like W-2 Online (it isn’t), but some features can make your tasks easier to complete.
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November
November 30, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
30: Employee Benefits Trends for 2024
50% of respondents to a recent HR survey said one of their biggest retention issues is competitive compensation and benefits, and that most companies don’t have a budget for higher wages. Employers must now offer comprehensive benefits that cover all areas (physical, mental, hybrid environment, health-care, financial, skills development, and more).
Learn how to create a program that will raise your retention rates without sinking the budget, all while healthcare and pharmaceutical costs continue to rise. Not all of these benefits come with a high price tag. Factor in a hybrid work schedule, financial counseling, mental health days, time off to volunteer and give back to the community, and more.
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November 29, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
29: Employee Handbook Checklist: Required Changes for 2024
Important rulings from the Supreme Court require you to rethink policies and practices on weapons, health care, religious expression, and religious accommodations. Plus, now is the time to start rethinking DEI policies in light of the court’s affirmative action rulings and recently filed lawsuits. Then there’s the NLRB — another federal agency that’s been declaring many common handbook policies illegal and anti-union.
Missing or poorly worded policies can quickly lead to an expensive lawsuit. Your C-suite expects you to keep every word in your handbook up-to-date. Every HR department should use this simple checklist of the crucial changes you need to make to your employee handbook.
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November 17, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
17: Goal Setting: Preparing You and Your Team for 2024
Do you envision goals for you and your team to achieve in 2024? As a manager, this is an integral part of your job, and it’s not as difficult as you may think.
Prepare for success in the new year now by setting goals for you and your team. This process leads to greater engagement, improves performance, and fosters a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, while benefiting individual employees and the organization.
When employees are involved in the goal-setting process, they feel a stronger sense of ownership and commitment to achieving those objectives.
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November 16, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
16: Motivation-Based Interviewing: A Revolutionary Approach to Hiring the Best
How many times have you hired someone who seemed like a dynamo in the interview but ended up to be apathetic, indifferent, or just plain lazy? In addition to skills and experience, a person’s attitude is the key predictor of successful job performance — and it may be the most important.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could ask specific interview questions to identify candidates with the right passion, attitude and self-motivation for the job? Well, now you can.
On November 16, discover the importance of breaking through all those canned answers to learn the art of motivation-based interviewing (MBI), a method to identify high achievers that’s fast replacing behavior-based interviews.
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November 15, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
15: Employment Law Master Class
The Supreme Court’s 2023 term has vastly altered the employment law landscape for human resource professionals. We’ve entered uncharted territory on affirmative action programs, religious accommodations, and worker freedom to exercise veto power over tasks assigned.
What’s more, we’re complying with sweeping changes at the federal level to overtime rules and exempt status, pregnancy accommodations, leave and nursing break laws, I-9 documentation, and unionization. These new regulations are causing you to have to take some action. We recognize this action and are here to support you.
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November 14, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
14: Payroll Compliance: Preparing for Year-End and 2024
You can’t afford to make payroll mistakes, and that’s especially true when it comes to year-end planning and reporting. This end-of-year season will be more difficult, as the IRS has dropped the mandatory e-filing threshold for information returns to an aggregate of 10 returns, from 250. The new aggregation rule requires you to add up all your information returns from all departments to see if the 10-form threshold is met. This means all departments with tax-filing obligations must be on the same page because the penalties for failing to e-file are also going up.
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November 10, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
10: California HR Law: New Laws, New Rules for Employers
Staying abreast of new employment law legislation for the upcoming year, as well as the prior year’s cases and administrative opinions impacting future workplace activity, is critical to protecting you — the employer.
On November 10, this must-attend webinar will teach you how to survive and thrive in the Golden State’s uniquely punishing legal environment. Receive a comprehensive update on the latest employment laws and regulations in California, discover how to stay in compliance for 2024 and learn what to expect for the rest of the year.
Employment law attorney Jonathan Fraser Light will present the 2024 employment law update, which includes the top ten employment law changes to affect employers.
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November 9, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
9: New Overtime Regulations: How to Implement the Rule Changes
Right before the Labor Day holiday, the DOL proposed expensive new overtime regulations that are expected to raise the salary level for exempt employees high enough to blow any labor budget. In addition, the proposed regs call for an automatic increase in the salary level for exempt administrative, executive, professional and highly compensated employees every three years. Those increases would not require the DOL to draft and issue proposed regulations for comment before implementation.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has been around for nearly a century. It provides for a federal minimum wage plus sets rules for which workers are entitled to overtime, among other rules.
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November 8, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
8: Personnel Records: What to Create and Keep, What to Toss and When
Maintaining personnel records used to be a lot simpler. Any HR department that wanted to be “safe” relied on a “keep everything” policy. Today that approach could violate the rules on the “reasonable disposal of sensitive documents.” But if the wrong document is destroyed, it could result in big fines and penalties. It could even mean willful destruction of evidence and a lost lawsuit. Then there’s not creating records in the first place. Many laws require creating records. And sometimes it’s just good policy to document everything from job applications to interview notes and disciplinary records – just in case – and then know when to toss them.
On November 8, discover how to toss all that HR paperwork clutter but keep lawsuit-proof “armor” when it comes to personnel records.
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November 2, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
2: The New Rules for Religious Accommodations
Two recent Supreme Court decisions have completely upended how employers have to accommodate workers’ religious beliefs and practices. First, employers must show significant economic costs impacting business before turning down a request for time off to practice one’s religion. This means an explosion of requests for reasonable accommodations, growing co-worker resentment and massive management headaches for employers. Second, the Supreme Court recognized a new religious free speech right that may mean workers can refuse to perform job tasks they deem contrary to their sincerely held beliefs. Turning down those requests will also require employers to show substantial economic impact.
EEOC complaints alleging religious discrimination, harassment and denial of reasonable accommodations for religious needs have skyrocketed almost 700% from 2,111 cases in 2021 to 13,814 cases in 2022!
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November 1, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
1: Complying with New Pregnancy and Postpartum Accommodation Rules
Employers have brand-new legal obligations to reasonably accommodate workers expanding their families. The EEOC just announced expansive new proposed regulations that may require leave for everything pregnancy-related. Think infertility, stillbirth, abortion, menstruation, and maybe menopause leave. Plus, there’s a requirement that your pregnant employees be provided with reasonable accommodations that allow them to continue working up to giving birth. These reasonable accommodations can be something as simple as allowing late arrival for scheduled shifts due to morning sickness or providing unpaid leave after giving birth even if no paid leave is available or the employee isn’t eligible for unpaid FMLA leave.
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October
October 31, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
31: The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction
The biggest mistake 80% of employers make is the use of a job description as their job ad. New job board rules are being enforced due to search engine optimization practices (SEO), artificial intelligence technology, and an influx of scam artists during the pandemic, forcing many employers to make changes they are not familiar with.
In this session we will cover the analogy of the Hiring Tree and discuss specific branches of the hiring process that will provide immediate results to attracting top talent, regardless of a looming recession.
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October 27, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
27: New Managers: Master the Art of Leadership, Communication & Team Building
Getting promoted into a first-time supervisory role is exciting and scary. That’s because new managers rarely get the training they need to be successful.
Success takes more than technical know-how or good luck. It’s about wisdom, motivational abilities and helping employees hold themselves accountable to reach new heights. It’s about knowing what to say and how to say it.
On October 27, join best-selling author and employee-relations guru Paul Falcone for an advice-packed training session that will help new managers successfully navigate their new leadership roles.
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October 25-26, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
25-26: Payroll Compliance Workshop
Payroll administration has grown more complicated in recent years. You now have to navigate a flood of new concerns — more out-of-state employees than ever before, ongoing remote and travel reimbursement questions, and even another change to overtime pay. And that’s on top of the everyday challenges — irregular payroll requests, vendor communications, and audit prevention measures — you tackle.
Find out exactly what your payroll department must do (and not do) as you prepare for year-end and 2024 compliance.
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October 24, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
24: New Overtime Regulations: How to Implement the Rule Changes
Right before the Labor Day holiday, the DOL proposed expensive new overtime regulations that are expected to raise the salary level for exempt employees high enough to blow any labor budget. In addition, the proposed regs call for an automatic increase in the salary level for exempt administrative, executive, professional and highly compensated employees every three years. Those increases would not require the DOL to draft and issue proposed regulations for comment before implementation.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has been around for nearly a century. It provides for a federal minimum wage plus sets rules for which workers are entitled to overtime, among other rules. The law and its regulations are an established part of the HR landscape.
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October 20, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
20: HR Best Practices: Align Your Efforts and Solve the Talent Shortage
Join us for a fast-paced program focused on reducing the turnover of key employees and improving productivity, by aligning HR’s efforts with other key departments. This discussion will reveal the synergies that emerge when operations, finance, and HR collaborate as a team. Positive outcomes include increasing efficiencies, more transparent communication, heightened employee engagement, optimal resource utilization, accelerated innovation, and increased profitability.
You’ll learn how strategic planning becomes more potent when HR aligns human capital strategies with business goals and then collaborates with operations and finance.
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October 19, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
19: HR Investigations Workshop: A Guide to Legal & Effective Inquiries
Conducting workplace investigations is one of the most challenging and most important duties that HR professionals must take on. How you respond to complaints about harassment or other misconduct can have huge legal and practical implications for your organization. This webinar is packed with tips and strategies to investigate any workplace problem quickly and legally.
On October 19, ask employment lawyer and trainer Kathy Perkins your specific employee investigation questions. Learn what to do and, as importantly, what to avoid when conducting effective investigations. Don’t risk the reputation of your company or your career.
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October 13, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
13: Workplace Detox: Strategies for Managing Malcontents and Toxic Employees
It only takes a few toxic employees to make a workplace challenging for others. What’s an employer to do to maintain a great workplace for all while dealing properly and effectively with difficult employees?
In today’s legal environment, employers can’t simply cast off every “difficult” employee or those who have personality clashes with co-workers. Such employees may still be adding great value to your organization.
But quietly tolerating toxic and malcontented employees is just begging for an employment lawsuit, and is guaranteed to lead to low morale and high turnover for your non-toxic workers. Stress to your HR team and managers that ignoring the problem is not a valid solution.
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October 12, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
12: Step Up and Stop Under-Managing
You may think it’s easier to under-manage your employees and ignore issues that need your attention than to step up and remedy the situation. But utilizing this management practice, or lack thereof, causes more harm than good.
Learn how to spot your management red flags, then ramp up your skills in the key areas of prioritization, collaboration, and alignment while also self-assessing where you may need to step up as a leader. After this session, you’ll be equipped to map a plan to improve your mindset as a leader while also gaining easy-to-use tools to implement immediately.
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October 11, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
11: FMLA Master Class
The Family and Medical Leave Act has been around for more than 25 years, but it’s still the most challenging and confusing part of an HR professional’s job.
The law includes so many little compliance steps, notification rules and paperwork traps. And mistakes are costly. Since 2012, employee lawsuits claiming FMLA violations have more than tripled. And many of those cases result in million-dollar verdicts or settlements—all because of a simple FMLA mistake at the HR or manager level. Plus, your employees have become experts at playing the FMLA game to their advantage. (It’s nicknamed the “Friday-Monday Leave Act” for a very good reason!)
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October 6, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
6: Advanced Interviewing Tactics: Leverage Résumé Analysis, Artful Questioning to Increase Quality of Hire
Interviewing takes skill. After all, research shows that one in three Americans admit to lying on their résumés. Eighty percent of those who lied were hired by the employers who interviewed them. Candidate selection now involves journalistic-style probing skills and being a savvy investigator to uncover candidate skills conducive to job excellence.
Learn how to examine résumé information gaps, how to stray from the interview script by asking behavioral questions aligned with the job’s critical success factors, and how to identify résumé anomalies that could lead to a mis-hire.
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October 5, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
5: Artificial Intelligence: Avoiding Inherent Discrimination Risks
While artificial intelligence provides numerous benefits, HR professionals must know the risks associated with the software. When software can monitor employee keystrokes, scan facial expressions during interviews to determine trustworthiness, and utilize chatbots to reject applicants who do not meet specific requirements, discrimination risks escalate. Learn from comparable situations and precedents to make smart decisions moving forward.
Learn what actions have been filed against employers who are alleged to have gone too far, resulting in claims of discrimination. In the first EEOC AI case, a company used AI to screen applicants, resulting in 200 older workers not making the cut. The company will now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle. More lawsuits are brewing.
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October 4, 2023 – 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 PM PT
4: Legal Terminations: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes and Lawsuits
Terminations of any kind are the biggest legal flash points for employee lawsuits. Just one mistake in the process — a discipline error, documentation slip-up or the wrong words in a termination meeting — can cost millions. Recent example: A jury awarded over $25 million to a regional manager who alleged she was wrongly fired and blamed for an incident involving the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks. And a black clerk at a Saks Fifth Avenue store claiming she was unfairly fired netted a jury award of $9.3 million.
Plus, you have to deal with the emotional fallout, risk of violence and co-worker morale.
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