If you´ve looked through training programs that as intended to help you translate employment "Legal-ease" only to discover that the programs aren´t really that helpful, you may want to consider this alternative, the Leader´s Legal Resource Center (LLRC) developed in conjunction the AlignMark, LearnShare, and Thomson Corporation.
What is LLRC?
LLRC stands for Leader´s Legal Resource Center. This website is promoted as being the first Electronic Performance Support System that is to help managers and supervisors with their daily job decisions. More than this, LLRC covers three main areas:
1) Reference
2) Training
3) Knowledge Assessment
The LLRC was designed to provide self-paced learning in daily legal employment matters. This online training application was intended to help supervisors and managers keep up-to-date with all aspects of employment law.
Therefore, this system is more than a simple training tool, it provides comprehensive information that can be easily (1) Referenced from any employee´s computer over the Internet, it provides (2) Training modules to keep employees informed about new legal impacts that will affect your workforce, and it also employs an (3) Assessment module to ensure that your learners will maintain this training on an ongoing basis.
LLRC is geared towards larger companies. LLRC is a comprehensive and integrated training and reference system.
How do I access LLRC?
The LLRC is a paid service. Unlike some of the reviews we´ve recently posted, access to their resource center is not free. You must contact AlignMark and have them take you through a demonstration of their Learning Center.
What topics are covered under the LLRC?
The content available using LLRC is continuously being added to and updated. The topics that are presently available cover the following legal topics:
q Harassment in the Workplace
q Discrimination
q The Hiring Process
q Promotion, Discipline, and Terminations
q Accommodating Disabilities
q Determining Essential Functions
q The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
q Religious Accommodations
Each of these sections takes a look at the legal basics such as the legal definitions of certain terms, employers obligations regarding laws, the most common and cost-effective practices for certain accommodations, tips on what employers actions should avoid.
Where does the information come from?
The legal content of the site is from Thomson Corporation and was developed in conjunction with legal employment law experts, HR specialists, instructional designers and software developers.
Thomson Legal and Regulatory is one of the foremost providers of legal, regulatory, and tax e-information. Major businesses and products include West Group, Brooker''s, Carswell, Editorial Aranzadi, RIA, Sweet & Maxwell, and Thomson & Thomson.
AlignMark is a provider of Internet HR solutions to assist mainly Fortune 500 companies in improving productivity.
If you haven´t heard of LearnShare, it is a consortium of 14 top non-competing companies including 3M, Levis, Chevron, GM, John Deere, Pilkington, and Pfizer. These companies get together to share their best training developments and HR innovations in order to improve their own overall practices and processes.
The Legal Resource Center is a subscription-based system with individual ID´s being active for a 12-month period. Second year licenses are offered at a discounted price for existing users. The prices, on average, range from $25 to $150 per license depending on volume.
LLRC is organized to help managers and supervisors with ambiguous legal situations. The information that is provided does not simply reiterate and reword legal jargon into a more digestable format. The type of information that LLRC provides is key information on what specifically employers should know, their responsibilities and obligations, and how they can best solve or avoid workplace conflict. This type of presentation is considerably more useful to managers and more difficult for developers to amass.
Some of LLRC´s features include:
q The ability to be linked to your organization´s specific policies and practices
q Content is automatically updated. Therefore, you know you´re always accessing the most up-to-date information
q Example situations are provided throughout the material to help with understanding and applying the information.
q Users can perform keyword searches to find specific information
q Questions test specific, detailed knowledge
q Feedback is given detailing regarding each question answered correctly or incorrectly
q Measures and tests knowledge through comprehensive assessments.
q Randomly generates questions for distinct knowledge areas.
q Poses multiple choice questions.
q Provides users´ scores and material review recommendations.
q Reveals previous assessments for comparison and reference.
q Lets users stop and continue at any time
Due to the online nature of this product, automatic and up-to-date information is continuously being inputted into your reference material. In addition, LLRC´s connections with LearnShare, AlignMark, and Thomson ensure that you are getting value-added, top quality information and service.
However, this system is geared towards larger corporations. If your company does not require such a comprehensive and integrated system, there are affordable ways to get up-to-date legal employment information such as other training and reference programs on CD-ROM. You might want to take a look at
Vizia Enterprises, "How to Comply with Federal Employee Laws".
About the Companies
LLRC.com was developed by AlignMark in conjunction with LearnShare. Founded in 1996, LearnShare is a consortium of 14 non-competing major corporations representing some of the world´s leading learning organizations with nearly 400 billion in annual sales and nearly two million employees. Using a unique ideology of sharing resources across member-organizations, LearnShare´s goal is to enhance training and development through the integration of members´ best practices and innovations.
AlignMark provides solutions to addressing the sourcing and selection of employee, the training and development of these employees, the assessment and certification of employee skill and knowledge levels and, on-going performance management processes.
Company Contact Information
AlignMark
258 Southhall Lane
Suite 400
Maitland, Florida 32751
800-350-5419
FAX 407-659-3580
LearnShare
One Seagate
Suite 690
Toledo, Ohio 43604
Phone: (419) 327-4160
Fax: (419) 327-4169