Conference Sessions By Track
Track: Employment Law & Regulations
Grow your expertise on workplace laws, legislation and HR policy to help protect your organization from liability.
Monday, June 27, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
The Interplay Between Reasonable Accommodations and Medical Leaves: Legal and Practical Implications This session will present an update on the legal framework and offer practical tools for the reasonable accommodations process under ADA and FMLA. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
The Top 10 Employment Cases of 2011 This session will cover the top 10 employment cases from the last year and how they alter or enhance what an you should do in the workplace going forward. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
This session will help you fine-tune your documentation and give you practical tips and tools for taking notes. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Employee Handbooks: Read 'Em and Weep?! This program will provide a checklist, practical tips and resources for enhancing employment policies (and practices). Monday, June 27, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Employment Law Highlights for the Hospitality Industry This session provides an overview of the legal pitfalls facing employers in the hospitality industry, and strategies for minimizing the risks they create. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Laugh, shake your head and be amazed as you analysis the headlines from this year's best EEOC cases and learn techniques for harmony, productivity and staying out of court. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
ERISA Fiduciary Obligations: How to Protect Yourself, Your Boss and the Company This session will educate you on ERISA fiduciary obligations and provide practical advice for avoiding liability. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | |
From the Files of the Bizarre: The Most Unusual Employment Law Cases This presentation will explore the most bizarre employment law decisions from the last several years and how youcan avoid becoming the defendant in one of these cases. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | |
MEGA SESSION: Hit Send! 50 E-mail Traps that Make the "E" Stand for Evidence This session immediately helps you to build the skills you need to create legally safe and effective business emails and strategic retention policies while avoiding individual and organization liability. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | |
Wage and Hour Compliance: Avoiding Lawsuits and Liability Monday, June 27, 2011 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | |
Privacy Issues in the Workplace After the session, you will have a better understanding of how privacy rights of employees affect the rights of an employer to regulate both business and non-business related activities. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
This session will help you address and minimize the risk and cost of EEOC claims. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
Same-Sex Marriage: We're Not in Iowa Anymore This session will provide you with tools and recommendations to prepare you for changing laws and regulations pertaining to LGBT workers. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
Secrets of a Plaintiffs' Attorney Gain insight into how an organizationﾒs practices, policies, training, and conduct (or lack thereof) can hurt or help in litigation of employment law disputes. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
This session helps youbridge the gap between technical understanding of the FMLA and its practical application in the workplace through use of a series of real-world scenarios. Monday, June 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
You will gain a clear understanding of your unique employer compliance obligations as federal and subcontractors. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
HR in California – Is It Really That Different From the Rest of the Country? Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
This session will give you the latest employment law developments and answers to tough employment law questions. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
Retaliation: Be Afraid - It's NOT Going Away Gain a better understanding of what retaliation is in order to best protect your business. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
Staying Afloat: What to do When the Audit Waves Come Crashing You will learn best practices in affirmative action plan preparation, and how to manage and survive an OFCCP audit. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
This session will help you understand the legal parameters of sexual and other unlawful harassment, how diversity affects perceptions on what is harassment, and the key steps you should take to prevent harassment without making everything harassment. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | |
2011 Employment Law Update: How to Protect Your Organization in a Time of Unprecedented Risk This session will help you comply with evolving employment laws by discussing current developments, trends, and how to build effective compliance programs. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
This session will give you the tools you need to comply with the many challenging workplace laws in California. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Managing Multiple Leave Entitlements Simultaneously: Leave Stacking This presentation will review differences between common leave entitlements, point out pitfalls to avoid to ensure compliance, and provide hints and tips on best practice strategies and tactics. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
This session equips you with practical tools for implementing worksite lactation support programs that meet federal requirements under the Health Care Reform Act. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Wage and Hour Compliance: Avoiding Lawsuits and Liability This session will help you critically evaluate your payroll practices to better ensure that you do not run afoul of the federal overtime compensation rules. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | |
Associational Discrimination The New Risk in Employment Litigation This presentation will review the impact of this extension of federal law on your ability to manage yourr workforce and will arm you with the tools to recognize and prevent associational discrimination in your workplaces. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
Employee Handbooks: Making Every Word Count This presentation will give exactly what you need to know to go back to the office and make the appropriate revisions to your employee handbook. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
Faster, Cheaper and Less Stressful: Making the Most of Alternative Dispute Resolution This session will provide you with information that will help you reduce the cost, time and stress spent resolving employment claims. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
Hot Topics and New Developments in HR: A Federal Public Policy Update This session will give you the latest information on pending information and anticipated future legislative, regulatory, and judicial activity that may affect your daily business. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
MEGA SESSION: The 2011 Ultimate HR Booster Shot: Cases. Trends. Impact. This highly engaging and interactive session will immediately enhance your 2011 decision-making skills by increasing your awareness of EEOC trends and cases. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
Zero Tolerance: Assessment and Prevention of Workplace Violence This session will provide the legal and practical tools you need to enhance your organization's ability to respond quickly, legally and safely to threats of workplace violence. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | |
The 17 Mistakes Made in Emergency Plans and How to Avoid & Correct Them This session will provide information on how you can protect your people and your posterior. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | |
Best HR Practices: Reviewing the Impact of Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. This session will provide insight into the Court's anticipated decision and guidance on how you can prepare now to address the implications of the Court's ruling in the landmark case of Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
ERISA and Other 'Myths': Debunking Benefit Plan Urban Legends This session will provide you with practical information for identifying and correcting common errors in employee benefit plan documentation, design, and administration to avoid penalties and protect against legal liability. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
Keeping The Heros and Losing The Zeros Hiring and Firing Laws and Flaws This session will help you understand your legal obligations under State and Federal laws, when making hiring and firing decisions, and to learn how to apply non-discriminatory interviewing strategies and protective termination practices. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
Living with Mental Health Parity: Controlling the Rising Costs of the Chronically Ill This session will assist you in developing strategies to control health costs for the chronically ill, leading to lower insurance premiums and reduced employee absenteeism. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
My Space or Your Space: Workplace Privacy in the Age of Electronic Communication This program analyzes the practical use and impact of social networking in the workplace highlighting both opportunities and challenges for employers. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
This session illustrates through real examples the best methods for evaluations and documentation and what happens in a trial when proper documentation has not been completed. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
A Best Company's Guide to Handling Harassment Allegations Truth is far stranger than fiction -- this session describes stunning and often hilarious stories from real harassment cases ... thus allowing you to assess best (and worst) practices for handling harassment claims! Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | |
Legal and Effective Reference Checking and Education Verification Learn how to navigate through legal and practical roadblocks when it comes to both obtaining and proving past employment information, as well as tool to spot phony credentials and fake degrees. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | |
SHRM Advocacy Team: Shaping HR Public Policy This presentation takes you through the basic steps of becoming involved in the public policy process to better prepare you to forge successful relationships with your elected officials to share the perspectives of HR professionals. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | |
You will learn how to best protect your organizations from Web 2.0 abuse or misuse through implementation of effective and defensible policies and best practices. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM |