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Register for this free webinar presented by Casey Kurtz and Mark T. Phillis of Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest labor and employment law firm in the world exclusively representing management, to get a comprehensive understanding of what these changes are and what the new regulations require of employees and employers. Messrs. Kurtz and Phillis are both “core” members of Littler’s Leaves of Absence and Disability Accommodation Practice Group. This presentation will provide concrete steps that HR professionals should take to ensure that their company remains in compliance with the FMLA and GINA.

Register today to help ensure your organization is compliant and receive 1 HRCI recertification credit.

LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Issues in the Workplace

Are you paying attention the emerging protection for LGBT employees in the workplace? Though the changes in protection may seem slow coming to some, it is gaining momentum. Moreover, a number of states prohibit sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination and some of those require employers to accommodate transgender employees even though the ADA may not.

This presentation will discuss the state of federal law and state concerning LGBT issues in the workplace and how employers can unintentionally get into trouble. Further, this presentation will discuss leave laws as they apply to same sex marriages and or domestic partners. Finally, this policy will address EEO and dress policies employers may want to amend and benefit issues they may want to address.

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.

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.

HR professionals should be aware of the plethora of pending regulatory and compliance changes taking place throughout the HR community. In the past two years Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has introduced many proposed policy changes.

This informative session will address these proposed changes and the significant impact they have on HR professionals and their day-to-day responsibilities. Participants will leave with a better understanding of the impact recent OFCCP changes and initiatives have on companies and HR professionals. Attendees of this session will be able to:

1. Obtain knowledge to better understand the proposed OFCCP changes and initiatives.
2. Identify the impact of proposed OFCCP compliance changes on HR professionals.
3. Learn strategies to implement these changes in their organizations to strengthen compliance efforts.

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.

This presentation provides an in-depth look at the issues employers face on a daily basis regarding the Internet, e-mail usage, and social networking tools. These issues include the different mediums of social media that now exist and the related legal problems, for example, in the hiring of employees, communication and crisis planning, employee discipline, social media policies, post-employment scenarios, and other legal issues associated with social media. The legal implications of social media law are both new and constantly evolving, and it is important for your organization to have an understanding of the impact they can have on your business, both for legal reasons and clear employee communications.

This webinar will focus on methodologies for HR professionals to prevent post-termination liability for employers in the form of litigation costs, settlements, verdicts, attorney’s fees and more importantly, the loss of valuable time and productivity. HR professionals have many tools at their disposal to forestall post-termination conflict, including candid and thorough performance evaluations, thoughtful termination processes that identify problematic employees while also maintaining a sense of fairness and compassion, and when conflict is unavoidable, measures and tactics available to HR to reduce exposures and/or increase the probability of success in alternative dispute resolution or litigation. These methods and best practices are one of the employers’ last defenses against costly, time-consuming and destructive employment litigation.