Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Having a formal and written IIPP is the foundation for a truly safe workplace. Every workplace has different hazards and the IIPP is an effective tool for protecting employees from those hazards, as the IIPP lays out the organization’s policies and procedures in regards to preventing injuries and illness.

Cal/OSHA requires that businesses with 10 or more employees have a written Injury and Illness Prevention Plan. This session will cover the specific components that your Injury and Illness Prevention Plan must contain. You will learn how, step-by-step, to build your own IIPP, as well as learn about the Cal/OSHA e-Tool for creating an Injury and Illness Prevention Plan.

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.

Temporary, freelance and project-based workers are fast becoming a staple of the U.S. workplace and research suggests that around a third of all jobs are now temporary in nature.

While utilizing temporary labor can provide significant cost savings over taking on internal, direct hire workers, engaging temporary staff of all kinds can expose your company to significant risks....especially in the great state of California!

Our virtual conference - led by Emergent President and California native, Bill Inman - will alert you to key CA compliance issues to watch out for and will show you how your company can mitigate these risks effectively.

So how much employment law trouble can personnel files, payroll records, pay stubs, and kirpans get you and your company in? Are you confident that your company's timekeeping records can survive a DOL or a DLSE audit? And once you give a pregnant employee all the number of days of leave the statute says she's entitled to - that's it, right?

Don't get too comfortable - the rogue wave that is California employment law is always a threat to California employers. And if that subject's on your beat, join us either to confirm you're state of the art in your knowledge of the pitfalls, or to gain reassurance that NOW you know the biggest threats -- and what's coming over the horizon.

Are healthcare costs going up? Do I have to offer health coverage? What is a Health Benefit Exchange?

Check out this free event to get all your pressing healthcare questions answered.

The new healthcare law is coming soon! Join us for an informative discussion on how the healthcare law impacts your small business and what steps you can take now to prepare. Topics include: small employer tax credits, employer responsibilities, reducing healthcare costs and Covered California, the new marketplace selling insurance to small businesses in 2014. HR.com and Small Business Majority are holding a free online workshop to help California small business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs learn what the new healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, means for small businesses. Topics include:

• Small business tax credits
• State Health Insurance Exchange
• Employer Responsibilities
• Cost Containment
• Small Employer Wellness Programs
• Tools and resources available for small businesses interested in learning more about the law

A question and answer period will follow.

This 15-minute webcast will provide information on the new Institute for Human Resources: HR in California certification program, which is launching with this premiere virtual event.

The purpose of this webcast is to introduce attendees to the virtual program and will review some background information on HR.com as well as the Institute for Human Resources, which has a total of 23 different certification programs.

All of the webcasts (with the exception of this introductory one) are approved for HRCI re certification credits - both as webcasts and as eLearning credits. These credits are tracked on the individual's HR.com membership profile and this will be reviewed as well.

The Institute for Human Resources: HR in California also has its own certification program. This session will provide an overview of the program, what features are included free of charge as well as what purchase options are available.

With new recreational marijuana laws in Washington and Colorado, medicinal marijuana legal in over a dozen states, and drug use on the rise, employers will continue to see an increase in drug-related workplace issues over the coming months and years. This training will cover the challenges employers face in tackling workplace drug use, and drug and alcohol abuse by employees. Primary among these issues is that of developing a drug and alcohol policy, and implementing workplace drug testing procedures. Other challenges presented by workplace drug use include: employee health, workforce development, workplace safety, and impact on the business operations. This webinar will also provide an overview of the key legal issues – on both a state and federal level – surrounding workplace drug use, using recent and relevant case law. Finally, the presentation will explore the components of a good substance abuse policy, and best practices for enforcing such a policy.

There is often a push and desire within organizations to hire someone as quickly as possible for an open position. While on the surface this seems fantastic, as the company has a need to fill and is looking to fill that need as quickly as possible. It is not always best to fill that role quickly if there is not a good candidate amongst the applicants. Think of hiring like dating it can be fun to date the person right now. But as we know it too often ends up leading to a short romance that can end in a nasty fashion. Because we know they are not the right person just the right now person. This webinar will help guide attendees in the process of learning how to determine who the right candidate is and not to hire the best candidate right now. This webinar will emphasize the importance of hiring process for each job opening. The emphasis will be on having a set process in order to ensure that you are able to detect the right person for the job and not someone who will cause more harm than good. The process will start with figuring out what you are looking for in a candidate, what are the must haves and what are the nice haves. Then talking about how to decide what questions to ask in an interview and what is an acceptable resume. Finally how the use of assessments can help streamline the process and ensure you get the right person for the job and not the person right now that you will think to yourself later why did we date- I mean hire that person.

The war for talent is on, and the traditional way to hire—fighting over local applicants for permanent (read: high-investment) roles—is quickly becoming unsustainable. To win the war for talent, you need to be innovative in your hiring approaches. Technological advances have expanded the talent pool, enabling companies to find and hire the best talent—on demand and irrespective of geography, via the Internet. And as these new staffing models such as online work, crowdsourcing, and distributed teams emerge, it is becoming increasingly clear that, in the words of Benchmark Capital General Partner Kevin Harvey, “if you have only local talent, you’re hamstrung.” In this session, oDesk VP of International & Enterprise Matt Cooper will discuss the key elements of these rapidly growing staffing models—including market landscape, industry players, use cases, and the emerging regulatory and compliance issues—as well as how best to leverage them.

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.