Employment Records: Best Practices for Creating, Retaining and Discarding
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Bob Gregg
Webinar Description
Human Resources, payroll, safety, and auditing professionals are often unsure about what employment records are required to be retained and for how long. This is vital information that could avoid legal liability. However, this is only part of the puzzle. Equally, perhaps even more important, is avoiding bad practices, and the troublesome, even illegal, recordkeeping-related errors which are often undetected.
HR is often unaware of major recordkeeping violations of law and the employer’s potential liability, which do not become apparent until there is an audit or a Federal lawsuit is brought against the employer. You should know the much broader scope of “records liability” and how to best comply with the rules, and avoid all too common, but needless, violations and attendant liability.
Employment lawyer Robert Gregg will provide critical information not just on what HR records your business should keep and for how long but also on the more important issues of what records are needed and what record retention practices can result in exposure to legal liability to employees and ex-employees.
Agenda
- Who has access to them?
- When should the records be discarded and why are you in trouble if you only follow the legal time requirements?
- Should you "archive" all personnel records?
- What creates employment "records"? It will surprise you!
- What factors create record retention problems you did not even know you had?
- What records should you NOT create? What should you do to avoid creation of problem records?
- The penalties for NOT preserving records
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Continuing HRCI Credit Information
This program has been pre-approved for 1.5 hours of General recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. Use of the seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
Continuing Legal Education Credit Information
This webinar has been approved in the following states for continuing legal education credit by The Marino Legal Academy:
California: 1.5 credit hours
The Marino Institute for Continuing Legal Education is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 credit hours of participatory CLE credit.
New Jersey: 1.5 credit hours
This webinar has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 CLE credit hours.
New York: 1.5 areas of professional practice credit hours
This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for veteran attorneys for 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.50 credit hours may be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice.
Pennsylvania: 1.5 credit hours
This Distance Learning program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.
To receive CLE credit for this webinar in those states, please request such credit by writing toinfo@parkavenuepresentations.com. Your request will be forwarded to The Marino Legal Academy for processing.
CLE credit for this webinar may also be awarded in a number of other jurisdictions. For more information, please contact a Marino Legal Academy legal education consultant at (212) 249-3779,x104.
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.