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Fitzgerald and Law (F&L) provide proactive professional advice and services to overseas headquartered international companies seeking to globalise their businesses. Services include Accounting, Taxation, HR, Payroll, Benefits, Expatriate Tax, Legal and IT in the UK, the US and most of the world. With offices in Central London and San Francisco and affiliates around the globe, we work as one multidisciplinary team, providing tailored solutions to specific challenges and integrated service support packages to effectively outsource all aspects of the business process. The HR offering at F&L is designed to allow US and Canadian based payroll professionals to concentrate on their core areas of activity – covering all aspects of Benefits, Payroll, HR and Expatriate Management.

*NOTE: This webcast does not qualify for HRCI or IHR credits
Nearly every week there is news of Independent Contractor misclassification and other "gray area" errors that are resulting in companies primarily (for now) in the US to pay enormous fines and in some extreme cases even serve jail time. This session will review some of these cases and, more importantly, lay out strategy and specific things you should be doing now to prepare for the inevitable audit from the CRA and other government and regulatory bodies of Canada. Having seen links to US and Canada business and government actions in the past, we will also show why now is the time for companies here in Canada to be aware of these potential risks and exposures while proactively working to mitigate them.

With increasing connectivity, there is an advent of a truly global workforce, multinational operations and global trade has led to an exponential increase in the risks associated with candidate recruiting, contract, and or contingent workforce. Human capital is increasingly being acknowledged as the most important investment for any company. Finding the right talent in the right job at the right time is an enormous challenge that global HR teams are facing in today’s current hiring scenario. Join Aletheia Consulting Group for a one hour webinar where you’ll be provided with an overview of the legal, regulatory, and practical landscape associated with best practice international background screening.

Africa is the new kid on the “RPO” block when it comes to new locations from which service delivery can be located. Unlike India, China and the Philippines, a few African countries already have better infrastructure, language capability, and lower labor costs. Nineteen of the top 25 poorest countries in the world are located in the African continent. It was only a matter of time before the influence of globalization gave promise to developing countries. Now Africa is poised to turn the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry among others, upside down from the bottom up. The benefits to the industry and customers of RPO will enormous.

Do you know where 25% of your workforce is right now? The use of all types of non-employee workers (temps, consultants, service providers, etc.) is continually and rapidly increasing. These workers present unique compliance needs and risks and require a flexible system of record to track all types of non-employee workers, across global suppliers. Join this webinar to hear “real world” case studies of global 200 firms who have faced these challenges too – and found a quick, efficient and cost-effective solution. Find out how what happened when the CEO of a global financial services firm asked why, if they had 22,000 employees, the company had real estate with 40,000 work locations?

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are growing in popularity as an outsourced model that brings industry expertise and a consultative approach to help clients manage their contingent workforce. In saying that many companies with a solid internal talent acquisition organization have the ability to "insource" the process of hiring and administering their contract workforce. In this session Jeff Nugent, the founder and managing director of Contingent Workforce Solutions will discuss: •Industry leading program component utilization •The pros and cons of outsourcing a contract worker program to a 3rd party Managed Service Provider •The strategic benefits of keeping the management of contract worker programs inhouse