HR Audio Conferences

Smoking Discrimination in the Workplace: On and Off the Clock

Employers have multiple issues to address that concern or involve the health of their employees. Employees have privacy interests, in addition to their own interests in preserving and improving their health. All of these interests, and more, arise within the context of nonsmoking policies used within...

Conducting Successful HR Audits

Increasingly, human capital is an organization’s most important asset – it’s certainly one of its largest expenses. It also exposes organizations to material risks. Yet many of the management techniques and assessment tools used to manage and assess other assets and processes of the organization have...

Curbing FMLA Abuse: How to Manage Manipulative Employees

About 62% of workers nationally qualify to take leave under the FMLA, and over 50 million employees have taken advantage of leave under the Act. Managing FMLA leave can be extremely challenging for employers, especially in the face of rampant employee abuse. However, there are tools available to employers...

Noncompetition Agreements for HR and Business Leaders: Protecting the Company's Business Resources

Now more than ever, employers are seeing former employees trying to jump start their career moves – voluntarily or involuntarily – by cashing in on the employer’s investment in relationships and information. Quite simply, the most effective way to protect your company’s resources against the actions...

California's New Commission Pay Requirements

Effective January 1, 2013, if an employee is paid in commissions, California law now requires every employer to have a signed, written contract with the employee setting forth how commissions are to be computed and paid.

California rules for payment of commissions can be complex and confusing. In...

Workers' Compensation: Return to Work Issues

By attending this program you will learn the fundamentals of managing the employee returning to work from a compensable injury. In addition to an understanding of the interplay between federal laws prohibiting discrimination against health conditions and state workers’ compensation laws, you will learn...

Controlling Health Care Costs With Self-Funded Plan Options

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, known as the Affordable Care Act (PPACA), creates incentives for certain employers to self-insure health care coverage. For example, self-insured plans are not subject to the small-group...

Effective Employee Orientation: Establishing The Culture and Protecting the Organization

Now that the employee is hired – what do we do? The beginning of the employment relationship creates a perfect opportunity to ensure new hires are successfully integrated into your organization’s culture, while at the same time developing appropriate documentation in the event that issues develop with...

Workplace Bullying Issues

Bullying (or sometimes called mobbing) has been described as the silent epidemic in the workplace. Research shows that employees may react more adversely to emotional abuse (also called psychological violence) than to overt sexual or race harassment. In the usual sex harassment lawsuit, employers may...

Payroll Overpayment Challenges: Legal and Practical Implications

Errors happen, but when they happen in payroll and employees are overpaid it is a mine field to understand how much can be deducted from employees future pay. Federal and state laws need to be considered as well as the type of overpayment can determine how the money is paid back. This live audio conference...