Webinars

New Managers: Master the Art of Leadership, Communication & Team Building  • How to communicate clearly to boost performance and earn employees’ respect.
• Motivate those who report to you, not from a “management down” but from a “leadership up” perspective.
• Master remote leadership and establish an achievement mindset.
• Coach appropriately to address uncomfortable workplace situations in real time.
• Hold all team members to the highest performance and conduct standards.
• Create and sustain a culture based on trust, open communication and transparency.
• Ask the right questions that help you mentor any employee.
• How to administer progressive disciplinary action appropriately and, when necessary, structure terminations that will withstand legal scrutiny.
• Avoid rookie mistakes that can lead to hard feelings—or even legal trouble.  ...Read More

The Remote and Hybrid Workforce: Multi-State Employment Law Compliance  • Why you need to limit where remote work takes place, whether it happens regularly or occasionally.
• Learn why in most cases remote work isn’t a right, but sometimes is a required reasonable accommodation, including new rules for religious accommodations and for pregnant employees under the PWFA.
• Discover how to ascertain if one of your teleworkers is also working for another employer.
• Hybrid work doesn’t fix your remote-work legal problems–in fact, it could multiply them. Learn how to minimize the risk.
• Why you need harassment rules for telework NOW.
• Comply with laws that require you to pay remote and hybrid workers for the surprise expenses they incur on your behalf.
•Understand state and federal laws on timekeeping and breaks for remote staff.
• Learn how to properly classify remote workers as exempt vs. non-exempt, and employee vs. independent contractor.
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The Hiring Tree: Driving Applicant Flow in the Age of AI  • How to write job ads that will show up better on job boards.
• Mistakes to avoid—are these critical errors keeping your job ads from being found?
• Easy-to-implement optimizations to get your hiring ad in front of more candidates.
• How to use generative AI to your advantage, including sample prompts to optimize the hiring process.
• How to streamline your application process so that more applicants actually complete the form.
• The facts and figures around mobile applications (yes, applicants really are responding to job ads from their phones).
• Insider tips on how to make your Indeed job postings perform better with simple tweaks.  ...Read More

The FMLA Intermittent Leave Compliance Workshop  • Understand “real world” FMLA scenarios. We’ll explain how to manage the common FMLA problems you face daily and how to avoid potential legal pitfalls associated with overlapping state and federal leave laws.
• Use compliance tools correctly. Learn how to use the tools of compliance to address unscheduled and intermittent leaves (certifications, call-in rules, attendance procedures and more), and how to account for intermittent leave by the hour. It’s not as simple as you think.
• Proper certifications. Know what to do—and what not to do—when FMLA call-offs exceed the intermittent-leave certification you have on file (there’s new legal guidance).
• When to say no. Employees can use intermittent leave every day to change their schedule permanently. Know if and how you can say no to such demands.
• Know how to track time off. The FMLA and the PWFA allow pregnant workers short bursts of unscheduled leave. Learn how to track both concurrently.
• Learn all about the DOL’s latest opinion letters on intermittent FMLA leave and how to avoid the traps they identify. They lay out a path for the best (and worst) steps to complying with intermittent-leave laws.  ...Read More

Protect Your Business Against PWFA Lawsuits: Essential Steps for Employers  • Leave as an accommodation. Understand when leave may not qualify as a reasonable accommodation (rarely) and when it may be required for cases of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and more.
• Guaranteed accommodations. Walk away with a checklist of the accommodations the EEOC says you can’t question—no doctor’s note, no forms, no delay.
• Top practical accommodations. Easy-to-implement, detailed, practical accommodations that won’t unduly disrupt the workplace while complying with the law.
• Lessons from the courtroom. Now that lawsuits have gone to court or settled, embrace lessons learned the hard way so you won’t repeat them.
• Compliant break rooms no matter your industry. Walk away with instructions for creating compliant milk-expression rooms for any workplace.
• Postpartum accommodations. Understand the obligations you have postpartum, including how soon you may have to bring new mothers back, even if they still can’t perform every essential function.  ...Read More