HR Seminar List
ADA: Responding to Accommodation Requests
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- ADA Basics
- Reasonable Accommodations
- Recognizing Requests for Accommodations
- Religious Accommodations
- When Leave Laws Intersect
- ADA Best Practices
Conducting Workplace Investigations
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Investigations 101
- Investigation Roadmap
- Conducting the Interviews
- Concluding the Investigation
Creating Job Descriptions
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Importance of Job Descriptions
- Job Descriptions & the ADA
- Position Titles
- Steps in Writing a Job Description
- When Leave Laws Intersect
- ADA Best Practices
Creating a Respectful & Inclusive Workplace
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Changing American Workforce
- Defining Diversity, Inclusion, & Respect
- Tips for Creating a Respectful Workplace
- Inclusive Language
Customer Service
Audience: All Employees
- What is Customer Service
- 9 Customer Service Skills that Matter
- Recognizing Requests for Accommodations
- Positivity – Power of Positive Language
- What is Active Listening?
- Becoming an Active Listener
- Dealing with Angry Customers
- Providing WOW Service
Effective Employee Discipline
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Progressive Discipline?
- Document, Document, Document!
- Performance Improvement Plans
- Employee-at-Will
- Legal Considerations
- Social Media Concerns
Employee or Independent Contractor?
Audience: Business Owners & Managers
- IRS Definitions
- IRS Common Law Rules
- FLSA Definitions
- Common Mistakes
- Economic Reality Factors
- Federal & State Initiatives
- Consequences of Misclassification
- Best Practices
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Audience: Business Owners & Managers
- What is the FLSA?
- Exempt or Non-Exempt?
- Minimum Wage
- Tip Credit
- Overtime Pay
- Hours Worked
- White Collar Exemptions
- Job Descriptions
- Record keeping
- Penalties
Form I-9: Employment Eligibility Verification
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- New Form I-9: What Has Changed?
- Section 1: Employee Information and Verification
- Section 2: Employer Review and Verification
- Section 3: Re-Verification, Rehires, & Name Changes
- Acceptable Documents
- General Tips for Completing I-9
- Retention and Storage
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Why Managers Avoid Feedback
- Defining Feedback
- Feedback Models
- Receiving Feedback
HR Risks Every Employer Should Know
Audience: Business Owners & Managers
- Understanding Employment Laws
- Importance of Job Descriptions
- Misclassifying Employees FLSA Overtime Violations
- Hiring Practices
- I-9 Employment Eligibility
- Employee Handbook
- Workplace and Sexual Harassment
Time Management
Audience: All Employees
- Defining Time and Task Management
- Avoiding Common Pitfalls
- Impact of Telecommuting
- Time Management Best Practices
- Make Planning a Habit
Improving Employee Morale & Engagement
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- The Statistics
- How Employee Mindsets Have Changed
- The 3 Things Employees Really Want
- Tips & Tricks for Being a Better Employer
Interviewing & Selection
Audience: Hiring Managers
- Benefits of an Effective Interviewing and Selection Process
- Plan, Prepare and Conduct Interview
- Behavioral Interviewing
- Interviewing & Selection Best Practices
- Discrimination Considerations
- Behavioral Interview Questions
Management 101
Audience: New Managers & Supervisors
- Succeeding as a New Manager
- Defining Your Role
- What is Your Management Style?
- 10 Common Mistakes
- Learning to Delegate
- Managing Former Peers
- Tips for First-Time Managers
Marijuana in the Workplace: Info for MA Employers
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- State Marijuana Laws
- MA Medical Marijuana
- MA Recreational Marijuana
- Workplace Policy & Practice
- Drug Testing
- Legal Challenges
MA Employment Law Review
Audience: Business Owners & Managers
- Independent Contractors
- Ban the Box
- Discrimination
- Reporting Pay
- Meal Breaks
- MA Blue Laws
- Equal Pay Act
- Sexual Harassment
- Minimum Wage
- Marijuana at Work
- Earned Sick Time (EST)
- Jury Duty
- Parental Leave
- Tipped Employees
- Payment of Wages
- Veterans Leave
- Small Necessities Leave
- Termination
Massachusetts Paid Family & Medical Leave
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- Overview & Timeline
- Who is Covered and Eligible?
- Provisions & Definitions
- Contribution Rate Split
- Posting & Notification Requirements
- Retaliation
Massachusetts Pay Equity Act: What Employers Need to Know & Prepare
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- The Wage Gap
- Key Provisions of the Act
- Pay Transparency Provisions
- Workplace Policy & Practice
- Next Steps for Employers
The Millennial Myth: Managing a Multigenerational Workplace
Audience: Managers & Supervisors
- The Millennial Myth
- Generational Stereotypes
- Managing Across Generations
- Overcoming Generational Labels
