Workplace Discrimination Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This program examines the concept of communication and the challenge of communicating with people who have different cultural backgrounds and experiences. We look at communication in relation to gender as well as culture and explore how various communication issues can affect productivity in the workplace.

This webinar will focus on what supervisory and HR professionals at all levels need to know about EEO regulations and requirements, including protected characteristics, workplace harassment, retaliation and more.

Educational organizations will benefit from increased knowledge about workplace harassment laws, and prevention and intervention strategies to diminish harassment on their campus. This webinar will outline a list of prevention and intervention strategies, distinguish between psychological harassment and illegal harassment, and detail the results of EEOC study on harassment and what it means for all workplaces.

This webinar on workplace retaliation will help you understand the nature of retaliation in the workplace, the EEO laws on retaliation and related conduct. You'll learn how to design effective and consistent policies and procedures that can help prevent and avoid retaliation claims.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs are stepping up their game and focusing on pay disparities as a form of employment discrimination. This training program will offer attendees an understanding of Title VII, sex discrimination and pay equity to help employers get ahead of the EEOC/OFCCP’s new priority and avert pay discrimination claims.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin, age and disability. It builds on longstanding and familiar federal civil rights laws but is the first law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex (which includes gender, gender identity and sex stereotyping) in covered health programs and activities. Sex discrimination also includes discriminatory treatment on the basis of pregnancy, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, recovering from pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, and gender identity.

A common workplace discussion often centers around diversity and inclusion and why it should be celebrated. This training program will discuss creating a strategic plan for diversity and inclusion. It will detail building an audit plan and auditing your HR department in order to determine opportunities for improvement.

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights issued the new regulations for Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. This act deals with nondiscrimination in healthcare and provides important new protections for patients including broad rules dealing with sex discrimination.This webinar will guide how to implement the new law to certify decreased risk of liability, ensure quality and equitable care and insurance coverage of all patients thereby enhancing quality care of patients.

This 3-hr training will show how you can deal with an employee who suffers from an on the job injury and his/her leave requirements trigger rights under the FMLA and the newly amended ADAAA. You will learn when you can terminate this individual, if ever and make sure you are complying with all legal requirements when it appears that compliance with one law may mean violating the other.

This training program is designed to heighten participant’s knowledge of the working definition of sexual harassment. It will also focus on other employment laws, and discuss state and federal laws on sexual harassment.

This webinar on Limiting Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment in the California Workplace is a practical approach to preventing sexual harassment from happening in the first place - and to fixing it right away if it does happen.

This webinar on Workplace Dress Codes will discuss your reasons and rights as an employer to establish a dress code in your workplace and how to develop and adopt one that complements your business.

A Harvard research study suggested that wellness programs may provide up to a 6:1 dollar return on investment! Organizations with wellness programs report a 15% slower rise in healthcare costs. This training will help participants in creating a comprehensive wellness and disease prevention program to improve employee health while decreasing the employer’s healthcare costs. The participants will understand challenges: employee discrimination based on disability, race, or gender, and how to incorporate non-discriminatory options in their wellness strategy.

The proposed changes to the salary level to qualify for an exemption will have a huge effect on traditional pay practices of most organizations. This training program will explore how the potential cost of not complying will also rise substantially. Business managers and HR professionals have to know what the new regulations are, how they will affect their business model, if the changes will increase the cost of labor and how to communicate the changes to affected employees.

This webinar training will explain the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and how it affects the pre-screening and investigation process of current employees. It will discuss the regulations and law that employers should comply with while hiring new employees to avoid getting into legal issues in future. Participants will learn about the best practices and regulatory requirements regarding background checks, pre-screening and investigation for safe hiring.

This training program will discuss the California Fair Employment and Housing Act under which an employer has an obligation to take all reasonable steps necessary to prevent discrimination and harassment from occurring in the workplace. The affirmative and mandatory duty requires the employer to conduct a prompt investigation in the event of a discrimination claim.

In this training program, attendees will understand why background checks and due diligence have become mission critical for employers. This program will review the top ten trends and best practices for 2016 when it comes to background checks and safe hiring. Learn steps employers can take immediately to help ensure legal compliance and how to deal with Ban the Box rules concerning criminal records.

There exists a liberal federal policy favoring arbitration, but a particular provision in the Federal Arbitration Act- or the FAA - known as the savings clause - permits agreements to arbitrate to be invalidated. This training program will discuss how, although there is a general sentiment favoring arbitration on a federal level, in recent years California state courts have aggressively employed the FAA’s savings clause to invalidate arbitration contracts between employers and their employees. This course will help attendees determine whether the arbitration clause in their employment agreement passes muster.

Excellent customer service assists payroll in its daily operations within the department rather than for its outside customers. This training program will examine how a correctly implemented payroll department customer service policy will ensure that communications remain open and clear. By setting down in writing what the payroll department can and cannot do legally, or will or will not be able to do, right up front goes a long way towards preventing future misunderstandings, miscommunications and the resulting conflicts which cause the department to lose valuable time handling this conflict.

This webinar will discuss the impending new regulations from the Department of Labor (DOL) related to white collar salaried exemptions. Instructor will discuss the resultant re-classification of employees, reduction of employees’ hours and increase salary. Participants will also learn how to counter the financial impact of new regulations.