Hiring, Performance Evaluation and Termination Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This training program will discuss why it is in your interest to conduct a criminal background check, the EEOC’s position on criminal background checks, Ban the Box laws, and how they impact the hiring process.

In this training program, participants will learn how to compute the correct or target annual withholding to avoid underwithheld tax penalties, understand how to test employer designed withholding methods for compliance with IRS requirements, and learn to compute withholding using the four alternative methods provided by the IRS.

This training program will offer an overview of anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action issued for federal contractors; illegal and ill-advised interview questions; pre-employment tests (skills, strength, medical tests) use of social media, criminal background checks; and more.

This training program will elucidate effective documentation techniques. It will discuss what documentation is needed to justify a termination decision and key record retention requirements. Attendees will learn how to fill out a performance appraisal and understand the essentials of a document retention program.

Maintaining order while managing long-distance teams and employees can often raise plenty of issues. This training program will help determine the fastest way to get a poorly performing location up to speed and offer attendees pointers on how to quickly and accurately check the quality of products or services at any location. It will also discuss ideal frequency for site visits, and best ways to approach a site problem without alienating anyone.

This webinar will highlight the importance of effectively handling severance pay and agreements. It will discuss several frequently asked questions on employee termination, severance pay, severance agreements, and ERISA laws.

This training program will cover the interviewing and hiring process in six steps: understanding the organization’s culture, conducting a job analysis, developing behavior-based interview questions, recruitment strategies, interviewing and selection, and HR onboarding.

This training program will describe the key components of a performance management system. It will also highlight key strategies for engaging employees in the success of the business and discuss developing measurable performance goals.

Employee engagement doesn’t have to be a hard to reach target. Essentially, there is a ton of research on how to increase employee engagement, and this webinar will sum it all up for you. The training session will also provide several vignettes along the way, to demonstrate how powerful the impact a focus on employee engagement can be.

This webinar discusses how and why the demographics of country are changing and the business impact of an inclusive business environment. The instructor will explain the federal and state laws and policy that provide for equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in employment. Participants will learn how to develop a fair and equitable Affirmative Action Plan that can withstand scrutiny.

Hiring the wrong individual can be costly in so many ways. You will be eventually looking at terminating him/her, and terminations always run the risk of a lawsuit. Hiring someone with a violent or criminal background can lead to a negligent hiring claim should the individual inflict harm on others while working for your organization. Yet, there are so many laws that say what you can or can’t do when screening your applicants. This webinar will guide participants through the legal pitfalls that come from screening applicants and how to avoid them.

This training program is designed to actively engage the mid-level manager in formulating a conceptual understanding of the need and uses of the performance appraisal process. Attendees will learn a variety of performance appraisal models that cover self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.

This webinar training discusses the success factors for implementing effective job design. The instructor helps in identifying the readiness of employee, the orientation needs and suitability. Participants will learn about the appropriate circumstances and best methods to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of job enhancement, job enrichment or job enlargement.

This webinar will decrypt the complexity of FMLA, ADA, workers comp & state employee leave laws. Participants will learn the critical components, difference and laws governing them in order to craft effective leave policies and manage leave abuse.

This training program will analyze these three seemingly different bodies of law that often overlap leading to ambiguity and confusion. What are the eligibility/coverage criteria under the FMLA and the ADA/ADAAA and workers comp? When might an extended leave be a reasonable accommodation? When might it be an undue hardship? Undue hardship can mean different things to different employers. If you are in healthcare, pharma, banking and finance, to name a few examples, accommodations of leave requests that may be feasible for many other employers, might, for you, be an undue hardship. If it’s not deemed an undue hardship are there steps you can take to mitigate the burden? What are the notice requirements? In this webinar, participants will get answers to these and many other questions.

This webinar training outlines the best practices of conducting performance appraisals. The instructor will explain how and why to monitor, measure and empower your team’s development and the best tools and scripts to motivate and coach your team. Participants will learn how to negotiate through resistance, build trust, manage team diversity and implement proactive plans during appraisal process.

The proposed changes to the salary level to qualify for an exemption will have a huge effect on traditional pay practices of most organizations. This training program will explore how the potential cost of not complying will also rise substantially. Business managers and HR professionals have to know what the new regulations are, how they will affect their business model, if the changes will increase the cost of labor and how to communicate the changes to affected employees.

This webinar training will explain the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and how it affects the pre-screening and investigation process of current employees. It will discuss the regulations and law that employers should comply with while hiring new employees to avoid getting into legal issues in future. Participants will learn about the best practices and regulatory requirements regarding background checks, pre-screening and investigation for safe hiring.

In this training program, participants will understand the fundamental concepts of creating a compensation system. They will receive information on the concepts of: compensation policy, internal and external equity, ranges, grades, position analysis, job evaluation systems, point factor systems, benchmark positions, using market analysis to establish pay ranges and midpoints, options for movement through salary ranges, and calculating compa-ratios. Sample pay grade with variable ranges will also be discussed in the session.

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.