Course Description
Our 2½ day "Certificate In Making Employment Workplace Decisions Workshop" is designed to improve on-the-job performance and decision-making for experienced HR professionals and employment law attorneys by utilizing an interactive learning approach to focus on actual situations that often confront human resource professionals.
You will learn to look at your day-to-day responsibilities in a completely different light by attacking rulings and workplace issues on topics that include:
- ADAA
- FMLA
- Wage and Hour
- Harassment
- Age Discrimination
- Hiring/Firing
- Succession Planning
Learning Objectives:
- Assessing risk
- Developing action plans
- Identifying legal factors
- Determining qualifications based upon facts
- Assessing timetables
- Reassigning your organization's strategies
- Knowing what "really is legal"
- Learn to analyze specific workplace situations
- Evaluate the potential legal risks
- Weigh those risks against the needs and philosophy of their organization
- Propose solutions to each identified
problem
- Improve decision-making relating to HR risk assessment and control issues
Who Should AttendThis course is intended for experienced HR/employment law professionals and attorneys. Participants will need to have an understanding of basic employment law and be at least somewhat involved with the management and administration of these laws in the workplace. Class time will not be spent explaining basic legal and HR concepts.
FacultyThis course is "team taught" by Gavin Appleby, Esq. of Littler Mendelson and Cindy Cook, HR Consultant.
Class HoursDay 1 & 2: 8:00am-4:00pm; Day 3: 8:00am-12:00pm.
Continuing Education CreditsThis workshop has been approved for 16.5 (General) re-certification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI), plus Continuing Legal Education in the states listed below.
How You Receive Your CertificateThe Certificate in Making Employment Workplace Decisions Workshop is awarded after a participant attends the full 2½ day workshop. No examinations are given. These handsome certificates are mailed two to four weeks after the end of the workshop.
Agenda
The case studies are changed for every workshop date. Each workshop will be taught using:
- Factual situations addressed by the class as a whole;
- Factual situations evaluated through small groups;
- Hypothetical role playing (using willing classroom volunteers);
- Limited lecture intended to analyze the hypothetical fact situations within the context of the law and;
- Class discussion.
While a number of factual situations and case studies will be utilized, one particular case study will be considered in several stages: investigation, analysis of the facts, application of the decision, and response to a legal challenge. This specific case study will culminate in the presentation of legal argument and trial testimony. Subjects will range across a variety of substantive areas and "real-HR-world" topics and decision-making issues including:
Analyzing hiring and discharge decisions in the context of potential discrimination, retaliation and wrongful discharge claims
- Evaluating ways to implement management changes without creating legal risk or substantial adverse employee response
- Dealing with FMLA, ADA and Workers' Comp situations
- Addressing behaviors at union and non-union locations that create the need for discipline
- Creating feasible performance feedback methods
- Managing employee/employer feedback and expectations resulting from surveys, compliance issues and audits
- Working to solve an array of employment-related issues
- "Hot topics of the day" for the HR professional