Our Upcoming Webinars

Managing Employees with Chronic Health Conditions While Meeting ADA and FMLA Requirements

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.

Employees with chronic health conditions --- such as heart disease, type-2 diabetes, and arthritis, to name but a few --- enjoy the same rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act as do all other persons with disabilities and illnesses. Finding the right balance between workplace efficiency and compassionate leadership, while walking the legal tightrope as well, requires knowledge and finesse.

AI in Talent Management: Navigating the Talent Crisis

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 2:30 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Sam Reeve

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Step into the future with our comprehensive course, "AI in Talent Management: Navigating the Talent Crisis". As the tide of global demographics threatens to capsize traditional approaches to workforce growth, we present a lifeline – Artificial Intelligence. This course will open your eyes to the power of AI in augmenting, not replacing, human talent. We delve into various aspects of people management, including talent acquisition, onboarding, teaming, employee rewards, and training and development, providing you with cutting-edge knowledge to use AI for enhancing job performance and evolving roles.

Acquire the knowledge and skillset to revolutionize your talent management using AI. Rather than being an impersonal replacement, learn how AI can be a valuable tool that enhances human roles, drives productivity, fuels innovation, and ensures company success. This course will equip you with strategies to implement AI in a people-centric way, ensuring your employees stay relevant in the fast-paced digital world.

Optimize Your Job Descriptions: Achieve Clarity and Legal Compliance

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 1:30 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Teri Morning

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Considering all the ways job descriptions are used in today’s workplace, it is critical that an employer describe a job accurately. It is imperative that a job description clearly explain what a person in a given position does, what are the functions to be performed, the performance expectations, expected responsibilities, and applicable working conditions. In this informative webinar, HR consultant Teri Morning will provide practical advice on how to write a useful and legally sound job description.

Rethinking the Performance Review

Monday, December 4, 2023 at 2:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Sam Reeve

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During this 90 minute information-rich webinar, HR consultant Sam Reeve will discuss crafting employee performance appraisals to fit your company’s culture and business strategy. You will learn the cutting-edge techniques that your competitors have implemented. Don’t go another year with a suboptimal program. Join this webinar to learn how to take your company’s performance management practice to a whole new level.

Excel for HR Managers

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 12:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Melissa Esquibel

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In HR, it is virtually impossible to do compensation, benefits, project management or any HR function without knowing some Excel, and it is impossible to be a true business partner without knowing Excel. Using Excel is not merely having the ability to enter names into lists. Excel saves you time while bringing understanding to piles of data. Before Excel, it could take weeks to organize, analyze and present data that can now be accomplished better in an afternoon.

The power of Excel is the ability to use the data entered into its spreadsheets to perform mathematical calculations as well as other financial functions. Excel’s functions can provide answers for simple to complex statistical and financial questions. Pivot tables allow you to slice and dice data to gather significance from data. Connections between data can be represented visually as charts, graphs, or histograms to provide better understanding.

Document Smarter, Not Harder

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 1:30 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq

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If you’ve been working in Human Resources for more than a minute, you know the mantra for HR is “document, document, document.” Whether its online or on paper, HR is required to document on….well, everything. If you feel like you’re spending most of your day documenting and losing your productivity, you are not alone. It’s time to cut down on the constant need to document everything, to stop reinventing the wheel, and to start documenting smarter, not harder. This program will look at what you actually need to document legally, and what can be discarded. We’ll discuss writing tricks such as the Funnel Method, CIRAC, and FORMation 101 to make your documentation the best it can be with the smallest amount of time investment and still maintain legal compliance.

Cannabis in the Workplace. What an Employer Can Do

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.

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Please join Dr. Jim Castagnera, an experienced employment law attorney, when he unravels the confusion surrounding the legalization of marijuana and its permitted uses in the workplace. He’ll discuss the findings of recent case law and offer employers guidance for how to maintain control of their workplaces while recognizing that the rights of employees to use marijuana both at work and after work are changing rapidly across the nation.

Quiet Quitting. Is it the New Employee Work-Life Balance or Active Disengagement

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 1:30 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq

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If you’ve heard the term “quiet quitting” but are not sure what it means to your workplace, this is the program you need to attend. “Quiet quitting,” from an employer’s perspective, is the new employee disengagement, that is, employees doing less while still being paid. From employee’s mentally “checking out” during the day, to refusing to work later hours, or simply saying no to their bosses, “quiet quitting” is a huge problem for employers.

ADA Accommodation: Compliance Update

Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.

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From the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which went into effect on June 27, 2023, to the EEOC’s updated guidance on applicants and employees with hearing disabilities, release on January 24, 2023, the agency is inaugurating new initiatives that employers need to know.

Fix the Problems with Your Bad Managers

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 1:30 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq

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We have to make our poor or disengaged managers great again, and there are ways to accomplish this. This program will discuss various tools, opportunities and protocols to improve the direction, quality and value of your management. We will discuss both the broad brush strokes on improving management generally and will examine one-on-one solutions for specific issues faced by individual managers.

Freedom of Speech and the Workplace: Balancing Employer and Employee Rights

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 1:00 pm ET

Duration: 90 minutes

Speaker: Dr. Jim Castagnera, Esq.

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Employees at both private companies and public organizations enjoy free-speech rights from a wide range of other sources, some of which are likely to be as surprising to you as their job rescission was to those Harvard students. For example, the National Labor Relations Board interprets section 7 of the national labor law as protecting social-media posts by employees, when these workers are acting in concert for their mutual aid and protection. Other employee-speech protections include a multitude of federal and state whistleblower laws, as well as so-called “Legal Activity” laws insulating off-duty speech from retaliation.

With a contentious national-election year looming, employers’ patience and self-restraint are bound to be sorely tested by activist employees. While you have every right to restrain workplace speech in the name of safety and efficiency, knowing where that right ends and your employees’ rights begin is essential to avoiding lawsuits, agency actions, and worker agitation.

How to Document Disciplinary Actions as an Employer

November 8, June 6, January 12, 2023

Our Upcoming Webinars

Managing Employees with Chronic Health Conditions While Meeting ADA and FMLA Requirements

AI in Talent Management: Navigating the Talent Crisis

Optimize Your Job Descriptions: Achieve Clarity and Legal Compliance

Rethinking the Performance Review

Excel for HR Managers

Document Smarter, Not Harder

Cannabis in the Workplace. What an Employer Can Do

Quiet Quitting. Is it the New Employee Work-Life Balance or Active Disengagement

ADA Accommodation: Compliance Update

Fix the Problems with Your Bad Managers

Freedom of Speech and the Workplace: Balancing Employer and Employee Rights

How to Document Disciplinary Actions as an Employer

The Employee ER Room Solving Employee Drama, Pettiness, Workstyles and Personality Complaints

Coping with Employees' Mental Disabilities in the Workplace

Essential HR Documentation: Critical Guidelines and Best Practices

Rewarding Excellence: Effective Pay and Benefit Strategies

Internal Investigations: The Crucial Components of Workplace Compliance

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: LGBTQIA Issues in the Workplace 2023

Employer Surveillance of Employees Who Work from Home: Legal Do’s and Don’ts

Employee Handbooks - 2022 Update

Mastering Employee Fulfillment: Balance, Growth, and Success

Detecting and Preventing Workplace Violence

Excel for HR Management Professionals

ADA Accommodation Compliance Requirements Caused by COVID-19

Cannabis in the Workplace: What Can an Employer Do?

Rethinking the Performance Review in a Post-COVID World

The Secret to Paying Your Employees Fairly

Quiet Quitting Is it the New Employee Work-Life Balance or Active Disengagement

Fix the Problems with Your Bad Managers

FMLA, ADA, USERRA, Workers Compensation, and HIPAA: Learn How These Laws Work Together

Streamline HR Work Using ChatGPT: A Demonstration of How AI Can Save Time and Effort of HR Professionals

Employee Dress Codes: The Changing Landscape of Employee Tattoos, Clothing and Hair Color in the Workplace

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: 2023 Update on Perennial Workplace Problems

Creating an Inclusive Workplace - Critical Diversity and Inclusion Programs

PTO: Is It “Paid Time Off” or “Problem Time Options”? – Working through the Pros and Cons

Writing Job Descriptions: Easy Steps to Writing Accurate and Defensible Job Descriptions

Managing Employees with Chronic Health Conditions while Meeting ADA and FMLA Requirements

How to Successfully Hire Employees Using a Smart Interviewing Process

HR Documentation Retention Policies and Practices: What to Keep and What to Toss

The NLRB’s 2023 Severance Agreement Ruling: Learn How Employers are Affected

Terminating Employees for Misconduct Outside of Work (Updated for COVID-19)

Noncompete Agreements: What's Legal, What's Not. Recent Developments

Learn the Critical Issues in 2023 Regarding Unemployment Insurance

HR Metrics: Measuring and Communicating the Strategic Value of Human Resources

How to Successfully Onboard New Employees

How to Correctly Classify Your Employees and Independent Contractors: Latest Legal Update

Improve Employee Productivity and Engagement

Internal Investigations of Employee Complaints and Job Misconduct - A Risky Business?

Know Your Safety Obligations Under OSHA For HR Professionals

Effective Behavioral-Based Interviewing – Hire the Right Person the First Time

How to Handle Witness Interviews in Workplace Investigations

How to Persuade Employees to Return to the Workplace in 2022

Sexual Harassment Claims in the 2021 Workplace

Service and Emotional Support Animals in the Workplace: The Law and Best Practices

Onboarding - A Good Start Results in Good Retention

COVID-19 Discrimination Claims

2022 HR Law Update

Handling Rogue Managers – Ineffective Leaders and Unimpressive Managers

Requiring Employees to Get Vaccinated

How to Pay the Hybrid Workforce

How to Create Psychological Safety at Work - The Foundation of High Performing Workgroups

Identifying and Combating Bullying and Abusive Behaviors - Establishing a Respectful Workplace

Wage and Hour Issues for Banks during the Biden Administration

How to Avoid the Top 10 Employee Handbook Mistakes

Employee Background Checks for Financial Institutions

Surviving an EEOC Investigation

How President Biden’s Immigration Plans Will Affect Employers

The New Tangle of Employee Leave Laws: ARPA and the COVID-19 Laws

Employee Privacy Rights

The COVID-19 Vaccines are Here! As an Employer, What Do You Do Now?

2021 HR Law Update

Fair Labor Standards Act - Beyond the Basics

COVID-19 Legal Claims: Document Those Claims like a Legal Expert

The Effects of Marijuana Legalization on the Workplace in 2021

Affirmative Action for Banks

Understanding Contracts: What Every CFO Needs to Know About Contract Law