Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

The California Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) recognizes the value employers provide to the child support program.

As a payroll or human resource professional it can get confusing keeping up with your roles and responsibilities as an employer.

Today’s webinar will provide you with the education you need regarding the child support process. Our focus is to provide employers with the latest changes, updates, laws and requirements as we work together to improve the lives of children. The law requires parents who owe child support to have it withheld from their pay. We hope you find this information helpful.

Cooperation between employers and the child support program is essential in supporting family self-sufficiency. We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to building a stronger partnership for the future.

This presentation will situate UI concerns for California employers in the context of national trends and conditions, and then focus on the state of UI in California. We will then move on to legal developments including UI integrity legislation and new state legislation targeting employee misclassification.

In California, cross-agency collaborations have resulted in increased numbers of audits aiming to recoup lost tax revenue for the state. We will look at data on payroll tax audits and enforcement within the state to see how this trend is affecting employers.

Finally, it’s important to offset your rising UI taxes by using employer credit programs. The CA EZ and WOTC credit programs have had significant developments so far in 2013 that employers should be aware of.

USCIS recently released a new Form I-9 that all US employers will be required to use for new hires, rehires, and reverification starting May 7, 2013. This webinar will address changes to the Form as well as address continued compliance concerns associated with I-9 and E-Verify policies and recordkeeping. In this regard, Office of Special Counsel and Immigration Customs and Enforcement actions will be reviewed to identify areas where employer representatives should focus and recommend corrective action. It will also assess recent cases and settlements to identify employer concerns and best business practices companies should put in place. The webinar will review proposed immigration reform and likely changes to E-Verify and the use of the I-9 Form in the future.

Every person recruited by a recruiter or staffing professional has the potentials to create a disaster if the candidate is hired and proves to be dangerous, unqualified, unfit or dishonest. A recruiter can choose to simply roll the dice and leave their fate and professional reputation to chance, or a recruiter can learn the basics of due diligence in order to legally recruited safe, qualified and honest workers. In this webinar, learn how to legally select honest and qualified people for your clients or organization by using best practices to avoid bad hires and the professional and legal fallout just one bad hiring decision can create. In addition, understand recruiters legal liabilities if a background check are not done right. The session will also cover the legal limits on recruiters using social media as well as the increased focus on practices that do not discriminate.

Social media is a double-edged sword. It offers a wealth of opportunities for greater connection and communication with your customers and among your employees. It can help you recruit and retain the best employees. It can be a source for new ideas and innovations that are the lifeblood of growth. But social media also poses unprecedented new risks and challenges for your business. It can expose you to legal liability. It can drain productivity. And it even allows a wayward employees to harm your reputation irreparably with the push of a button. If more than half of the country is interacting via this technology, how can you afford not to understand the risks and protect your business?

For employers with U.S.-based operations, there are a number of important credit opportunities that can be used to offset rising employer taxes. These credits are often missed or not pursued to their full potential; however, an optimized credits program can drive very material savings to your organization.

In this presentation, we will explore the use of best practices to derive maximum potential value from tax credit opportunities.

Credits include:

• FICA SUB Pay Protective Filings
• Post-M&A "Successor Employer" Credits
• General UI Account Review (Housecleaning)
• Hiring Incentive Programs such as WOTC and the HIRE Act

The approach of the presentation will be to help payroll professionals:

• assess the effectiveness of their current credit administration (if any);
• quantify the potential value of credits;
• do a rough diagnostic to identify which credits may be worth pursuing in terms of likely eligibility and ROI;
• identify common mistakes to avoid and best practices to help extract full value from their credit programs for maximum $avings.

Whistleblower claims brought under federal safety, health and environmental statutes can be costly and disruptive to your business, and claims may involve actions that an employer did not realize could be considered discriminatory. Find out how best to coordinate between safety and HR activities, to avoid prosecution under these statutes, and how to defend against claims when a complaint is filed.

This presentation will cover how to structure your incentive and disciplinary programs to avoid scrutiny by the government, how to document adverse actions properly, and how to address situations involving "bulletproof" employees in a legally sound manner.

The remedies available to whistleblowers and unique aspects of some laws - such as "temporary reinstatement" provisions that may require actual or economic reinstatement while a case is pending - will also be discussed.

Learn how the choices you make could affect your organization.
Now that the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, many employers are asking, "What do I have to do to avoid penalties and minimize costs?"

Register for this complimentary webinar featuring expert advice from Monique Warren, partner at Jackson Lewis LLP, to learn how you can avoid being blind-sided by unanticipated costs in 2014.

In this webinar you will learn how the penalties can be triggered in 2014, their potential financial impact, and how alternatives to avoid these penalties may affect your organization. Employers that have not already done so must put a strategy in place and develop tools and processes to comply before the 2014 deadline.

In this attorney approved / information packed seminar, participants will learn about Cost Containment Strategies, Best Practices, and tools used by companies to become more profitable in this new economy as it relates to best practices for Workers' Comp administration. If you are like most successful businesses, you need to cut your expenses and you want to be more profitable. This program was developed to help you attain these goals, in addition to reducing your business risk. Main Topics:

• Reducing Your Business Risk Understanding the Importance of "Total Cost of Risk"
• Training: Pre-Hire, Post-Hire, Pre-Claim, Post-Claim
• HR / OSHA compliance / Wellness / Safety Training
• Claims Management procedures, Best Practices, Case Studies

New advances in technology result in employees expecting more flexibility, information and empowerment. Is your organization ready to meet these demands? Will your Workforce Management solutions stand up to the challenges coming your way?

In this one-hour seminar, we'll analyze the issues that 'the wave of the future' causes. We'll help employers understand and evaluate the why. Why today's employees expect more flexibility. Why your organization should consider embracing technological advances as an advantageous method of progressing your company’s culture. Then, we'll analyze the how. How to manage your employees effectively while still entrusting them with ‘loose reigns.’ How to comply with the increasing, ever more burdensome, legal regulations imposed by the Department of Labor.