Workplace Health and Safety Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

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 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 training with explain how to create an effective worksite wellness policy. The Instructor will discuss an overview of HIPAA, ADA, ACA, GINA, ERISA and more. He will also cover the EEOC’s new rules and how to be compliant while implementing wellness program at your workplace.

This webinar will decrypt the complexity of FMLA, ADA, workers comp & state employee leave laws. Participants will learn the critical components, difference and laws governing them in order to craft effective leave policies and manage leave abuse.

This training program will analyze these three seemingly different bodies of law that often overlap leading to ambiguity and confusion. What are the eligibility/coverage criteria under the FMLA and the ADA/ADAAA and workers comp? When might an extended leave be a reasonable accommodation? When might it be an undue hardship? Undue hardship can mean different things to different employers. If you are in healthcare, pharma, banking and finance, to name a few examples, accommodations of leave requests that may be feasible for many other employers, might, for you, be an undue hardship. If it’s not deemed an undue hardship are there steps you can take to mitigate the burden? What are the notice requirements? In this webinar, participants will get answers to these and many other questions.

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.

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.

This training program will concentrate primarily on establishing a philosophy and program for salary administration that will be in alignment with your organization’s business strategy, be understandable to management and employees and compliant with applicable labor laws.

This training program will detail the Affordable Care Act law and its rulings. The session will also examine benefits administration and how to ensure compliance and the future of Obama Care.

This training program will offer best practices for staying in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act when the proposed regulations are released while exploring the critical nature of the right communications. It will be followed-up by a 60 minutes complimentary Q&A Session(Series2)on Monday, May 9th 2016.

This webinar training course will assist California employers navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of successfully addressing and managing the issues afoot when an employee is expecting. The Instructor will share practical methods of evaluating pregnancy accommodation request, ensuring a pregnant employee receives entitled leave and tips for ensuring a smooth return-to-work.

This series of training programs on Family Care and Medical Leave in California will examine compensation while on leave, continuation of benefits while on leave, employer’s prohibited actions under the CFRA, employee’s return to work policies, and more.

Harassment and bullying have become common place in America’s workplaces and particularly in healthcare. As an employer/manager you have the responsibility to both prevent and intervene any abusive conduct and as health professionals to provide quality patient care. This webinar will discuss the two forms of misconduct, what to do when subjected to the harassment or a witness of abusive conduct and how to formulate and implement harassment policy to prevent misconduct.

Due to pressure from political influences, the need for increased tax revenues, and possibly due to concerns over illegal immigration, the U.S. Government has stepped up enforcement activities of various targeted industries, including the hotel and hospitality industry. The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor has the authority to conduct investigations in a particular industry or locality, especially when there are indications of widespread violations. The training program will focus on the importance of a wage and hour audit and discuss the framework for conducting an effective wage and hour audit.

This training program will clarify the circumstances under which illnesses expected to have relatively short durations – such as the flu – meet this definition of serous health condition and would therefore obligate employers to provide workers with Family Medical Leave (FML) time in a manner consistent with the law. Employers must know how “serious health condition” is defined under FMLA, and must provide FML accordingly in order to remain in compliance with FMLA.

Are you at risk for non-compliance? Is your company a lawsuit waiting to happen? This training program will focus on how much of what HR professionals do involves legal compliance, litigation avoidance and ensuring that employee rights are not violated. Yet, employment laws and regulations are not only confusing, they’re constantly changing. Still, ignorance is not a defense and it is important for everyone involved to have an understanding of these issues.

This training program on reducing and preventing workplace violence hazards will train attendees on spotting a potentially violent worker in the workplace. It will also enumerate OSHA requirements regarding violence in the workplace and discuss employer’s responsibilities and industry trends for workplace violence.

This training program will discuss the impact of substance abuse at work in the US, drug testing processes and employee rights, and confronting substance abusing employees. The course will also present treatment options such as EAPs, SAPs, and twelve-step programs.