ResearchAndMarkets.com has added the "Certificate in Employee Relations Law Seminar" to its offerings. The 4-day seminar is designed to provide participants with practical knowledge and understanding of various laws and regulations related to employment.
Enhance Your Knowledge and Understanding of Employee Relations and Labor Laws with ResearchAndMarkets.com's 4-Day Seminar
The seminar is geared toward human resource professionals, attorneys, and managers. The seminar is led by prominent employment law attorneys, who will provide attendees with insights and best practices for dealing with various employee relations and labor law issues.
The seminar also aims to help participants recognize and deal with problem situations, minimize exposure to litigation, and stay informed about current and future laws and regulations that impact the workplace.
Led by Prominent Employment Law Attorneys, the Seminar Offers Practical Insights and Best Practices for Human Resource Professionals, Attorneys, and Managers. Earn PDCs and HR Recertification Credit Hours.
The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) recognizes this 4-day program as a provider of Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP, with a total of 29.75 PDCs.
Additionally, this 4-day program has been approved by the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) for 29.75 HR recertification credit hours towards PHR and SPHR recertification.
Agenda:
Block 1 - Labor Law in the Union & Non-Union Workplace (Monday - Tuesday)
Overview of Laws Governing the Employer-Union Relationship
- Analysis of the provisions of the Labor Management Relations Act and other applicable laws.
- A practical guide to understanding and successfully dealing with the National Labor Relations Board.
- How to minimize legal risk through good hiring practices
- Identification of the most important employment policies
- How to use performance evaluations effectively
- The keys to avoiding an employment-related lawsuit
- How to conduct effective internal investigations
- Managing leaves of absence effectively
- Why employees unionize-recurring problems in the non-union workplace.
- Preventive measures to avoid union organizing efforts.
- Examination of election procedures-statutory provisions and NLRB processes.
- How to conduct a legal and effective campaign against unionization.
- What should management want in a collective bargaining agreement?
- How to get what you want out of the collective bargaining process.
- The extent of responsibility to bargain in good faith.
- The correlation between collective bargaining agreements and employee handbooks.
- Legal limits on strikes, picketing, and employer responses.
- Legal remedies and best strategies for dealing with actual or threatened strikes, picketing, and boycotts.
- Living with a collective bargaining agreement.
- Making effective use of the grievance procedure.
- Preparing for and winning arbitration cases.
- Buying a business whose employees are unionized.
- Understanding your rights and liabilities in mergers and acquisitions.
- The decertification process.
- Other non-election means through which to legally end the relationship.
A survey course that examines legal theories under Title VII and other Civil Rights Acts, including discrimination and harassment based on race, sex, religion, national origin, age, and disability.
- Analyzes race, color, and national origin discrimination claims under Title VII and the Post-Civil War Civil Rights Acts.
- Examines the various theories of sex discrimination, including such issues as pregnancy discrimination, employee benefits design, and equal pay.
- Discusses sexual and other types of harassment, investigations, and policies employers need to mitigate their risk of liability.
- Reviews trends in protecting the rights of persons based on sexual orientation.
- Updates religious discrimination issues, including employer obligations to accommodate employees’ religious practices.
- A thorough examination of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the effective handling of the disabled employee, including a discussion of the changed standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act.
- An analysis of current decisions interpreting an employer’s rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- An examination of the Family and Medical Leave Act, its regulations, and recent cases dealing with leave issues.
- An examination of developing legal issues, including disparate impact claims and defenses.
- A review of issues associated with employee benefits designs, especially severance benefits.
- Resolving complaints internally and encouraging employees to use your procedures.
- Avoiding litigation through binding arbitration.
- A discussion of recent court decisions concerning the enforceability of agreements to arbitrate employment claims and class claims.
- A review of the case handling process under EEOC regulations.
- How to win your case at the administrative level.
- An examination of effective litigation strategies.
- Avoidance of retaliation claims.
- Settlement strategies, including pre-charge settlements as well as settlements in conjunction with agencies.
- A detailed discussion of voluntary affirmative action trends.
- An examination of the requirements of Executive Order 11246 for government contractors.
- How to prepare affirmative action plans.
- Dealing with the OFCCP effectively.
- Update on judicial opinions regarding affirmative action and “reverse discrimination.”
This block will address specific employment law/labor law issues of interest to participants not covered in Blocks I and II plus up-to-the-minute laws, regulations, and court decisions. Topics may include:
Wage and Hour Issues
An examination of the Fair Labor Standards Act and regulations affecting the categorization of employees as exempt from minimum wage and/or overtime premium pay and calculating overtime premium pay under various pay arrangements.
Wrongful Discharge Litigation
An examination of the various theories of recovery arising from employee discipline and discharge. An examination of litigation prevention techniques including practical suggestions regarding employment policies, internal review procedures, and discipline/termination decision-making and implementation.
- Assessments of effective litigation strategies in response to these developments.
- A discussion of post-employment inquiries and the use of separation agreements as a litigation avoidance tool.
- Defamation claims arise from communications with employees, other employers, customers, and others.
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Intentional interference with contract or prospective business advantage.
- Fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation.
- Negligent hiring, supervision entrustment, and supervision.
- Pros and cons.
- Utilization of arbitration agreements.
- Features of an effective ADR System.
- Legal restrictions and considerations in developing and implementing effective policies and programs.
- Workplace searches and related issues.
- Employee monitoring and pending legislation.
- Emerging types of claims.
- What is protectable?
- How to protect it
REFERENCE:
4-Day United States Employee Relations Law Seminar (Orlando, United States - July 17-21, 2023) - ResearchAndMarkets.com
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