Hot HR Issues for 2015 – Information You Need to Know Now
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Max Muller
Webinar Description
In the new year, HR managers face many significant existing and emerging issues which run the gamut from recruiting talent from an age group that isn’t even out of high school yet (Generation Z – born between 1994 and 2010) and retaining senior workers to the risks and rewards of wearable technology in the workplace. The successful HR Department will want to learn about these concerns and how to best address them. Join noted HR consultant and attorney Max Muller for a fast-paced, information-rich webinar that will review the hot issues HR professionals will face in 2015.
Agenda
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Risks and rewards of wearable technology in the workplace – BYOD (bring your own device) to Google Glass
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Privacy
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Confidential information, e.g., trade secrets, personal medical data
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Productivity
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Whistleblowing
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Corporate policy considerations
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Skills Gap - Talent recruitment and retention
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Practical and legal issues of recruiting talent in the electronic age
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Cross-training – benefits and detriments
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Legal considerations in hiring the just retired as independent contractor consultants
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The continuing conflict between employers and federal/state taxing authorities over independent contractor versus employee status issues
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“Microsoft Inoculation Clauses” related to employee benefit plans if an independent contractor is deemed to really be an employee
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The continuing challenges of employee use of social media in light of Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
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“Magic words” with which to legally interface your discrimination and harassment policies with your internet usage policies
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Pregnancy, disability and the Supreme Court
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Consideration of pregnancy as a “disability” requiring special accommodations
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Managing requests for time off as an ADA accommodation beyond FMLA entitlements
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The critical time to request a fitness-for-duty release
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What to ask for in an ADA-related request for medical information
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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.
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