Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

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.

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.

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.

Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media are an inescapable part of modern life. Employers' attempts to control social media in the workplace have recently become a primary target of National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") charges for unfair labor practices. And, the majority of policies reviewed by the NLRB have been found to be overbroad. “Social Media Policies & The NLRB: Practical Guidance for Navigating the Latest Litigation Minefield” identifies the advantages and disadvantages of having a stand-alone social media policy, and walks through recent decisions and provides an analysis of NLRB guidance to discern the permissible limitations of policy language.

Many employers gave up hope on claims for FICA tax refunds related to supplemental unemployment benefits pay ("SUB pay") after CSX Corp. v. United States, which was decided in favor of the IRS. However, a recent appeals ruling on Quality Stores has restored life to those claims. This presentation explains the legal basis for FICA SUB Pay refund claims and how they are impacted by disputed issues in Quality Stores. Determine your potential benefit from FICA SUB Pay refund claims, and understand why it’s important to file a claim NOW (if eligible), as well as how to ensure a successful claim.

The reasons why employers implement an automated time and attendance solution are many and varied and the process of automating time and attendance can seem daunting. From choosing a vendor whose solution fits the current and future needs of the organization to getting that solution adopted by employees, employers face challenges that can potentially derail or seriously impede an effective implementation.

This webinar will identify the top challenges organizations need to consider to effectively automate their time and attendance and ensure the smooth and trouble free transition from their old manual time processes to their new automated time and attendance solution.