Avoiding Liability:
Employment Law Landmines for Supervisors and Managers

In an era when employees “express themselves” through litigation and government investigations, it’s critical that all supervisors and managers have a general understanding of employment law and how it impacts their everyday actions and decisions. Following an introduction to wage and hour concerns, discrimination/affirmative action and employee rights, participants will learn about the landmines that await even the best-intentioned supervisor who fails to train, document and keep evidence; who inflates performance evaluations; operates inconsistently; provides references; leaves smoking guns in e-mail or voice mail; and unknowingly creates dangerous precedents by failing to consult HR before taking action. This eye-opening program helps participants learn how to protect themselves and their company.

Who Should Attend: Exempt supervisors, managers, and executives.

Program Content:

• Introduction to wage and hour law
• Discrimination
• Introduction to affirmative action
• Recognizing FMLA
• Employee rights
• Common mistakes that supervisors make

Basics of Effective Wage and Salary Administration

With this program you understand the basic compensation programs, which answer the questions, "How much do I have to pay to have this work performed?" 

Program Content:

• Determining marketplace pay levels
• Distinguishing among different jobs
• Writing basic position descriptions
• Determining salary level system
• Designing system for pay rate changes

Managing Human Resource Records

All businesses, large and small, have obligations to accurately maintain employee records. You will learn what records should be kept, where they should be kept and for how long. Practical record keeping tips will be shared as you learn to streamline your procedures and keep your company in compliance with the laws.

Who Should Attend: Human resource administrators and key personnel responsible for maintaining human resource records.

Program Content:

• Dealing with troublesome record keeping issues
• Organizing HR records
• Federal and state retention requirements
• Documenting employee performance
• Access to personnel records
• Privacy issues
• Developing appropriate policies

Human Resource Management

This program is for the newly established HR function or for an HR function, which would like to upgrade its area. Includes a complete self-review of the HR function as it applies to your company: 

Program Content:

• Managing employment
• Policies, practices
• Managing compensation and employee benefits
• Managing payroll and HR information systems
• Serving HR's customers - employees and management

Performance Appraisals

Employee Performance Management helps you improve your company's program which directs employee performance. 

Program Content: 

• Ways to develop/improve your appraisal form
• Making your program an everyday process - not just once a year
• How to train your managers to do a better job of managing employee performance.