Employee Benefits and Leave Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

In this training program, attendees will understand why background checks and due diligence have become mission critical for employers. This program will review the top ten trends and best practices for 2016 when it comes to background checks and safe hiring. Learn steps employers can take immediately to help ensure legal compliance and how to deal with Ban the Box rules concerning criminal records.

There exists a liberal federal policy favoring arbitration, but a particular provision in the Federal Arbitration Act- or the FAA - known as the savings clause - permits agreements to arbitrate to be invalidated. This training program will discuss how, although there is a general sentiment favoring arbitration on a federal level, in recent years California state courts have aggressively employed the FAA’s savings clause to invalidate arbitration contracts between employers and their employees. This course will help attendees determine whether the arbitration clause in their employment agreement passes muster.

Excellent customer service assists payroll in its daily operations within the department rather than for its outside customers. This training program will examine how a correctly implemented payroll department customer service policy will ensure that communications remain open and clear. By setting down in writing what the payroll department can and cannot do legally, or will or will not be able to do, right up front goes a long way towards preventing future misunderstandings, miscommunications and the resulting conflicts which cause the department to lose valuable time handling this conflict.

This webinar will discuss the impending new regulations from the Department of Labor (DOL) related to white collar salaried exemptions. Instructor will discuss the resultant re-classification of employees, reduction of employees’ hours and increase salary. Participants will also learn how to counter the financial impact of new regulations.

This training program will concentrate primarily on establishing a philosophy and program for salary administration that will be in alignment with your organization’s business strategy, be understandable to management and employees and compliant with applicable labor laws.

This training program will detail the Affordable Care Act law and its rulings. The session will also examine benefits administration and how to ensure compliance and the future of Obama Care.

This training program will offer best practices for staying in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act when the proposed regulations are released while exploring the critical nature of the right communications. It will be followed-up by a 60 minutes complimentary Q&A Session(Series2)on Monday, May 9th 2016.

This training program will help you determine if an employee newsletter is right for your company. Attendees will further learn best practices for newsletter content, design and distribution, and how to create and oversee the development and production of employee newsletters.

This webinar training course will assist California employers navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of successfully addressing and managing the issues afoot when an employee is expecting. The Instructor will share practical methods of evaluating pregnancy accommodation request, ensuring a pregnant employee receives entitled leave and tips for ensuring a smooth return-to-work.

This series of training programs on Family Care and Medical Leave in California will examine compensation while on leave, continuation of benefits while on leave, employer’s prohibited actions under the CFRA, employee’s return to work policies, and more.

Harassment and bullying have become common place in America’s workplaces and particularly in healthcare. As an employer/manager you have the responsibility to both prevent and intervene any abusive conduct and as health professionals to provide quality patient care. This webinar will discuss the two forms of misconduct, what to do when subjected to the harassment or a witness of abusive conduct and how to formulate and implement harassment policy to prevent misconduct.

Due to pressure from political influences, the need for increased tax revenues, and possibly due to concerns over illegal immigration, the U.S. Government has stepped up enforcement activities of various targeted industries, including the hotel and hospitality industry. The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor has the authority to conduct investigations in a particular industry or locality, especially when there are indications of widespread violations. The training program will focus on the importance of a wage and hour audit and discuss the framework for conducting an effective wage and hour audit.

This training program will clarify the circumstances under which illnesses expected to have relatively short durations – such as the flu – meet this definition of serous health condition and would therefore obligate employers to provide workers with Family Medical Leave (FML) time in a manner consistent with the law. Employers must know how “serious health condition” is defined under FMLA, and must provide FML accordingly in order to remain in compliance with FMLA.

Are you at risk for non-compliance? Is your company a lawsuit waiting to happen? This training program will focus on how much of what HR professionals do involves legal compliance, litigation avoidance and ensuring that employee rights are not violated. Yet, employment laws and regulations are not only confusing, they’re constantly changing. Still, ignorance is not a defense and it is important for everyone involved to have an understanding of these issues.

This training program will provide an overview of the key intent for establishing paid sick leave programs and policies. It will also discuss the finer points of California law and how that relates to trends spotted all across America.

This webinar will help managers establish best practices for managing their workforce using sound performance management techniques, especially documentation of poor job performance and code of conduct violations to best support terminations. Learn how HR can coach their executives and managers on how best to work through their performance management strategy.

This workshop will provide an overview of FMLA and its provisions, as well as guidelines for how to manage its use effectively. The number of women in the workforce is increasing at a faster rate than men; in fact, they will make up 48 percent of the workforce by 2010.

This HR compliance training will provide participants with and understanding of the law as it relates to Equal Employment Opportunity and things that can be done beyond compliance to promote diversity in their organizations.

This HR compliance will review the critical elements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, Workers Compensation as well as other relevant state leave laws and provide solutions to managing absenteeism fairly. There are few things as disruptive to operations as unexpected absences of employees. Many organizations have come to value dependability of attendance over other employee characteristics.

This webinar on employee overtime calculation will help you understand what is “time worked”, exempt versus non-exempt status and how to calculate your employees' overtime correctly so to avoid these costly suits.