The pandemic changed what workers expect, and handbook policies that ban now-normal flexibilities can feel out of date. Many organizations still put off updating their employee handbook. This 90-minute employee handbook compliance webinar explains why a refresh matters and what to include.
A handbook is an important compliance tool and can help you defend wage and hour, harassment, discrimination and leave claims. With hybrid work, it also needs to set clear expectations for communication and performance.
You'll review federal, state, local and multi-state rules, including background screening, overtime, salary history bans, paid leave, pay equity, worker classification, drug testing and marijuana, immigration, reporting and retaliation, and how to communicate policies to employees.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
An outdated handbook can become a liability, especially for multi-state employers with a dispersed workforce, who must track different employment laws and new developments in every state where they have employees. Keeping up can feel burdensome while you're also struggling to recruit and hire, but falling behind can be costly.
The session suits HR, compliance and payroll professionals, federal contractors, department heads, managers and supervisors, office managers with HR duties, and those responsible for AAP and EEO compliance.
AREA COVERED
Managing multi-state compliance
- Resources to help build strategies for multi-state challenges
- Identifying which state-specific regulations apply
- Multi-state regulations to know and the policies they require
- Which multi-state regulations affect employers most
- New laws that have changed the playing field and how to reduce risk
- Procedures to address new regulations
- Whether to write separate policies or an employee handbook for multi-state laws
- Communication strategies for telling employees about multi-state rules
- Tools and resources to help employers comply
Policy topics
- Criminal background screening regulations
- The DOL overtime rule
- Salary history questions prohibited in hiring
- Paid leave laws
- Pay equity
- Employee classification and independent contractors vs employees
- Drug testing guidelines and legalized marijuana in the workplace
- Immigration compliance
- Employee handbooks
- Reporting
- Retaliation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify the federal, state and local regulations your handbook must address
- Recognize the multi-state regulations that affect employers most
- Decide whether to use separate policies or a single employee handbook
- Design procedures that reduce risk under new laws
- Communicate multi-state policies effectively to employees
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- Federal Contractors
- Department Heads
- Human resources professionals
- Compliance professionals
- Payroll Professionals
- Managers/Supervisors & new and potential managers
- Office Managers responsible for HR responsibilities
- The person responsible for the Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
An outdated handbook can become a liability, especially for multi-state employers with a dispersed workforce, who must track different employment laws and new developments in every state where they have employees. Keeping up can feel burdensome while you're also struggling to recruit and hire, but falling behind can be costly.
The session suits HR, compliance and payroll professionals, federal contractors, department heads, managers and supervisors, office managers with HR duties, and those responsible for AAP and EEO compliance.
Managing multi-state compliance
- Resources to help build strategies for multi-state challenges
- Identifying which state-specific regulations apply
- Multi-state regulations to know and the policies they require
- Which multi-state regulations affect employers most
- New laws that have changed the playing field and how to reduce risk
- Procedures to address new regulations
- Whether to write separate policies or an employee handbook for multi-state laws
- Communication strategies for telling employees about multi-state rules
- Tools and resources to help employers comply
Policy topics
- Criminal background screening regulations
- The DOL overtime rule
- Salary history questions prohibited in hiring
- Paid leave laws
- Pay equity
- Employee classification and independent contractors vs employees
- Drug testing guidelines and legalized marijuana in the workplace
- Immigration compliance
- Employee handbooks
- Reporting
- Retaliation
- Identify the federal, state and local regulations your handbook must address
- Recognize the multi-state regulations that affect employers most
- Decide whether to use separate policies or a single employee handbook
- Design procedures that reduce risk under new laws
- Communicate multi-state policies effectively to employees
- Federal Contractors
- Department Heads
- Human resources professionals
- Compliance professionals
- Payroll Professionals
- Managers/Supervisors & new and potential managers
- Office Managers responsible for HR responsibilities
- The person responsible for the Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Speaker Profile
Margie Faulk
Margie Faulk is a senior level human resources professional with over 15 years of HR management and compliance experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC, Margie, has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduces potential workplace fines and penalties from violation of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.Margie’s area of expertise includes Criminal Background Screening Policies and auditing, I-9 document correction and storage compliance, …
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