Upcoming Webcasts

Welcome to the Institute of Human Resources and the Legal and Compliance: Managing Employer Risk third virtual event! We are thrilled to welcome you onboard and hope that you have a great learning experience over the course of the next two days.

Legal and compliance topics in HR cover complex processes, legislation and issues facing corporations and legal departments. It is important to adopt and implement an integrated approach to ensure the governance of federal, state and provincial laws and practices to avoid legal action. This introductory conference session will welcome you to the second Legal and Compliance Event, give you an overview of the conference speaker line-up and introduce you to HR.com and The Institute of Human Resources (IHR). We will also share with you how to navigate around our virtual space and maximize your learning and networking opportunities during the event.

An overview of the IHR certification process will result in you leaving the session clear about how you can become recognized as having current and cutting edge expertise in HR related Legal and Compliance matters. The Institute for Human Resources (IHR), the certification and accreditation process arm of HR.com, has a program for you! Many HR professionals have a general HR degree or certification with a wide spectrum of HR functionalities. The IHR is the only institute that focuses on niche areas within Human Resources. A specialty certification increases your market value, adds value to your work experience, furthers your knowledge, and recognizes you as an industry leader and/or expert in the field.

Thanks for joining us and we look forward to your participation!

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a New two page Form I-9 on March 8, 2013. This Form can be used immediately, but will be mandatory as of May 7, 2013. DHS gave employers very little time to make this administrative change, which can be especially challenging for employers that have several people responsible for this function through many different field offices.

This session will review the new Form in detail, and will also review the most common errors based on the new form, including how to correct errors made on the Form.. The initiation of a new form is also an excellent time to review all I-9 policies, including whether to make copies of supporting documents, how to process remote hires and rehires, when to reverify in Section 3, and how long to retain I-9 Forms. The speaker will provide practical solutions, especially for those employers that continue to rely on paper I-9s.

This webcast will introduce the concept of the cognitive interview and show how it can be of benefit to HR professionals and other managers when conducting the more complex disciplinary and grievance investigations. It will be of particular interest in disciplinary and grievance cases with elements of bullying, harassment, discrimination, theft, assaults, drug dealing and serious health and safety violations plus any other serious issues of misconduct.

Cognitive interviewing has been shown to produce up to 40% more accurate evidence from eye witnesses, even when events occurred some time ago. It also reduces the need for costly re-interviewing and can result in a higher quality evidential base from which to make a disciplinary decision thus reducing the likelihood of appeals and even costly litigation

Laws keep changing, but most employers' employee handbooks are not keeping pace. Worse, many employers have employee handbooks that work against them and provide limited-to-no defenses against a variety of employment law claims.

We will discuss the benefits of employee handbooks, recent changes in the law that require updates to every employer's handbook, and the most common mistakes found in employee handbooks. Ample time will be set aside for questions from the audience.

This webinar is essential for any employer, company leader or HR professional whose company does not currently have a handbook, or who has a handbook that has not been reviewed or revisited in years.

Effective Assessment Strategies: What You Need to Know How can pre-hire assessments add value to your hiring process? Online assessments have proven their value as a predictive tool to support informed hiring decisions. Our webinar will help you: • Maximize your ROI. • Integrate assessments into your hiring process. • Increase efficiency. • Prepare for future developments. >> Register now! Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 | 1:00 p.m. (EST) | 10:00 a.m. (PST) Join eSkill’s webinar with Charles Handler, Ph.D., president and founder of Rocket-Hire consultants, whose extensive experience provides a wealth of knowledge about the impact of current and future hiring technologies. Learn how to apply assessments to your “job funnel,” to: • Screen out undesirable candidates • Screen in only the best, most suited applicants. Sign up today, to get a glimpse of the future of online assessment and recruiting! Eric Friedman, Chairman & CEO www.eskill.com 1-866-537-5455

GUNS AND THE WORKPLACE: WHO SPEAKS FOR THE EMPLOYER?

It’s hard to think of a more controversial, emotional and perhaps polarizing issue than the right in many states of an employee to lawfully carry a weapon for protection when traveling to and from work, and to safely store that weapon in his or her private vehicle while at work. Employers must respect this right, while also recognizing their responsibility to provide a safe and healthy workplace for not only employees, but also customers, vendors and members of the public. In addition, there is a movement to expand the right of all qualified citizens to carry a concealed weapon in all public areas, including restaurants, commercial facilities, places of entertainment, and even religious institutions and college and university campuses. There are vocal advocates on both sides of these issues, but who speaks for the Employer who may feel caught in the middle?

Presented by Jaffe Dickerson, shareholder at Littler Mendelson. Jaffe is a specialist in labor and employment law for over 30 years. He represents public and private sector employers in all aspects of labor and employment law before state and federal administrative agencies and courts. He will discuss:

1. GUNS IN THE PARKING LOT

2. VENDORS, CUSTOMERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

3. DUTY TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND HEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR EMPLOYEES; LIABILITY FOR INJURY TO THIRD PARTIES

4. TRAINING FOR MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS AND STAFF

5. DEALING WITH INCIDENTS

6. GUNS IN THE WORKPLACE: EMPLOYER POLICY GUIDELINES AND CONSIDERATIONS

7. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE EMPLOYER? CURRENT (AND POSSIBLE) LEGISLATION

This webinar will provide key insight from the July 2012 Bersin & Associates research, “Leadership Strategy, The Link between Business Goals and Leadership Development Solutions.” In addition each participant will receive a leadership development template that can be modified to fit the specific need of their organization. This leadership strategy template will outline a plan for finding leaders, aligning them with the business, training/developing them and rewarding them. This practical insight gained from this webinar is applicable to companies of all sizes. If your part of a team is responsible for creating a plan for a large corporation or if you, the single source, are charged with creating a plan for developing a single leadership team, this webinar is for you.

Welcome to the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Virtual Event for HR Information Systems: Audits, Compliance and Risk Management. The Institute provides an opportunity to bring together industry thought leaders in a year-long community that promotes best practices among vendors and HR Professionals with a series of research, webcasts, presentations, virtual events, awards and market research. This introductory session will give you an overview of the Institute for Human Resources - HRIS certification program, which launched in March 2011 with a two day virtual event. This will mark the seventh virtual event for this great community and to date over 3000 HR professionals have registered for our programs. The purpose of this session is to provide you with the webcast topics and speakers that will be presented over the next two days. All of these webcasts have been approved for HRCI recertification credits (the only exception being this introductory webcast).

If you have been tasked with a major HR transformation or talent management initiative and do not know where to start, then take a lesson from Denver Public Schools (DPS). Bryan Ferrer, HCM systems consultant for DPS, will demonstrate how to align employee attraction, retention, rewards and empowerment in a sector where having the right person in the right place at the right time is critical.

Attendees will gain an appreciation of the many ways that HCM applications can be used to help organizations innovate and come away with a model to build upon for building long-term strategic plans and capabilities.

Departing employees continue to walk away with sensitive employer information when they resign or are fired. Often times the employee uses a planned approach to take the information and uses it in a competing venture or new job. What can employers do to prevent this type of theft? This presentation will address the suggested policies and procedures employers should use from day one of the employment relationship through the departure. These range from confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements to non-compete/non-solicitation agreements. The presentation will also address practical solutions employers can use to protect proprietary information.

Though no policy or agreement is foolproof there are definite steps that should be considered to thwart the former employee and avoid having to go to the courthouse.