Compliance Training Webinars for Regulated Industries

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.

Both clients and tax advisors should be aware of the IRS audit process. This webinar will introduce advisors and clients to factors the IRS considers in selecting an individual for audit, how the IRS obtains information during the audit, and provides you the tools needed to represent the client through IRS appeals.

This California leave of absence compliance training program will guide attendees with effective administration of leave of absence and help identify and prevent employee abuse of leave. Understand the essential elements and legal developments behind FMLA, pregnancy disability, and military leave laws.

This webinar will discuss the importance of developing a formalized first aid, CPR, and AED training plan. It will review OSHA standards for emergency response and offer guidelines for first aid, CPR and AED administration.

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including those with psychiatric impairments that substantially limit their major life activities. This webinar will discuss an employer’s responsibilities in the workplace and help you take your first steps toward preventing tragedy, ensuring a productive, engaged workforce and safe workplace, and that you are protected against legal liability.

This training program will clearly define all requirements of the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). It will discuss best practices for developing TSCA written plans and TSCA training plans, as well as breakdown all components of the TSCA.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs are stepping up their game and focusing on pay disparities as a form of employment discrimination. This training program will offer attendees an understanding of Title VII, sex discrimination and pay equity to help employers get ahead of the EEOC/OFCCP’s new priority and avert pay discrimination claims.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin, age and disability. It builds on longstanding and familiar federal civil rights laws but is the first law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex (which includes gender, gender identity and sex stereotyping) in covered health programs and activities. Sex discrimination also includes discriminatory treatment on the basis of pregnancy, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, recovering from pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, and gender identity.

This training program will illustrate five effective personal actions to enhance a safer workplace and describe the four different phases of the safety maturity curve. It will explain the four most common deflections of a safe workplace and how to minimize their impact.

This webinar will discuss 4 key payroll practices that will be crucial to the department in 2017. These practices will increase efficiency, cut costs, prevent fines and penalties for errors and help the department identify areas to focus on for improvement in 2017 and beyond. The training session will address other payroll essentials such as why it isn’t just Forms W-2 that are being scrutinized by the IRS - it is also fringe benefits and all tax practices.

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 define and discuss mediation, arbitration and fact-finding. It will enumerate best practices to prepare for the process, checklist of areas to remember, key considerations such as evidence and witnesses, and essential questions to ask.

This OSHA training program will discuss current OSHA standards, directives, emphasis programs and interpretative letters that could be revised under the new Trump administration. It will discuss possible changes in OSHA’s regulatory agenda for 2017 and illustrate the three options a new administration has to rescind regulations from the former administration. The webinar instructor will also offer insight into whether OSHA’s budget will remain the same, decrease or increase under the new administration.

The third webinar in the series, this training program will provide an in depth overview of the new/updated concept of ISO 45001 and compare OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001.

On November 17, 2016, OSHA published the Final Rule to Update General Industry Walking-Working Surfaces and Fall Protection Standards. This webinar will detail the new regulation and how this new ruling will impact your organization. It will also explain the compliance schedule along with the benefits to employers pertaining to the new regulation.

This training program will discuss what to do when you receive communications from the IRS and also what to do when doing business with other federal, state and local regulatory agencies and lawmaking bodies. It will also explain how to conduct internal audits of the payroll department to pre-emptively uncover issues of non-compliance that could be extremely costly if found by official audits from regulating agencies. Additionally, best practices in performing audits for fraud will also be covered.

This training program will help attendees comprehend revised rules regarding exempt vs nonexempt classifications starting December 1, 2016. Attendees will learn how the automatic updates starting in 2020 will affect companies. The webinar will also define primary duties, suffer or permit, working time and compensable hours and distinguish between discretionary payments and non-discretionary payments in calculating overtime.

The webinar will overview the injunction on the FLSA overtime rule. It will offer attendees an understanding of the effect it can have on their organization and discuss the implications of the change.

This second training program in the series will review the structure of ISO 45001. It will discuss the mitigation process for the standard, the terminology associated with it, and its key requirements.

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.