Webinar On Hot Topics in Employment Law

Overview: 

This webinar will provide an overview of issues that HR professionals face with increasing regulations and compliance challenges. The webinar will focus on "hot" topics such as generational diversity, recruitment, engagement and retention. In addition, leave challenges presented by ADA and FMLA will be reviewed. Changes the profession is facing with minimum wage, overtime and classification challenges will also be discussed. The use of social media can be very beneficial for HR processes, but social media also presents challenges within the workplace with "BYOD" policies. 

Why should you attend:

 Without question, the eruption of new laws and executive orders affecting HR, combined with a well-versed employee base, leads to more challenging compliance and litigation issues in the workplace. These challenges require HR professionals to learn to navigate a mine-field in a way that is unprecedented. This topic will provide an overview of the areas that are likely to require our attention as HR professionals in the coming months. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Our litigious society
• Knowledge base of employees
• The "Brain Drain" - who do we manage older workers?
• Diversity initiatives
• Recruitment, engagement and retention
• "The Big Three" of Compliance: ADA, FMLA, FLSA
• Leave challenges
• Changes on the horizon with minimum wage, overtime and classification
• Extension of benefits to same sex spouses
• Social Media: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Managers
• HR Directors
• HR Generalists and Specialists
• Business Owners

Instructor:

Gayla R. Sherry is President of Gayla R. Sherry Associates, Inc., an Oklahoma-based consulting firm established in 1995; the firm's mission is to improve employee engagement and productivity by providing human resources services. The firm has conducted many engagements with a wide range of clients, including financial services, health care, government, higher education, public, private and nonprofit organizations. Projects include HR Audits, developing policies, procedures, handbooks, job descriptions, Affirmative Action plans, management training, employee relations, mediating conflict, conducting internal investigations and succession planning. 

Gayla is a well-respected human resources professional, accomplished speaker and facilitator, faculty member and published author. She brings a broad range of business experience in senior management positions in human resources, operations, marketing and customer service. Gayla's business background includes senior management positions in commercial banking and the Federal Reserve System.