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Discrimination Training For Managers And Employees: Strategies For Success reviews the most important topics to train on, explores the many training formats available, and offers suggestions for ensuring the training is effective, overcoming resistance from executives and employees, and following up with trainees.  Plus, discover why training is one of the best discrimination-prevention measures any employer can take.

 

The Impact Of Inclement Weather On The Workplace provides you with advice on how best to respond when Mother Nature throws you a curve ball. Learn how to manage requests to bring children into work because of school closures, respond to employees who refuse to commute in bad weather, communicate a weather-based decision not to open the office, respond to weather-related pay inquiries, and protect outdoor workers from frigid temperatures.

 

The Top 10 FMLA Compliance Problems Under The New Regulations is filled with expert insight on avoiding the compliance problems that continue to plague employers under the final Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rules.  Get advice on managing unscheduled intermittent leave and light-duty assignments; clarifying health care provider certifications; understanding how the FMLA interacts with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Workers’ Compensation, and short-term disability; and more.  Plus, the report summarizes how the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has expanded the FMLA’s family military leave provisions to protect even more individuals.

 

Understanding How The ADAAA And The New EEOC Regulations Have Changed The ADA gives you everything you need to know to fully comprehend how the original Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has changed under the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) to protect more individuals with less severe impairments.  Learn what constitutes a major life activity, which impairments will always be considered covered disabilities, why it will be easier for employees to succeed with "regarded as" claims, the danger in considering mitigating measures, and other crucial information.  Plus, learn how the EEOC has proposed to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADAAA. 

Compliance With The New HIPAA Data Breach Notification Rules provides a detailed analysis of the steps covered entities and business associates must take following a breach of unsecured personal health information, as per interim final regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.  Learn how to determine whether an actionable breach has occurred under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), when notices must be delivered and to whom, what content notices must include, and what administrative actions are required.

 

HR's Pandemic Flu Plan For The 2009-2010 Season gives you step-by-step guidance on how best to prepare the workplace for this year's flu season, based on newly released recommendations from federal agencies.  Also included are practical and legal considerations for employers on such topics as employee leave, disability-related inquiries, and wage and hour issues

 

U.S. Supreme Court's 2008-2009 Employment Law Decisions summarizes each of the Supreme Court's eight employment-related decisions issued during its 2008-2009 term, and what they mean to employers.  The rulings cover everything from reverse discrimination, to age discrimination, to retaliation, to pregnancy discrimination, to benefits, to unions and mandatory arbitration agreements.

 

Pay Discrimination Audits: Ensuring Your Organization Is Protected Against Ledbetter Complaints guides you in conducting a voluntary pay audit.  Learn when it's okay to pay different wages to similarly situated employees, and how to adapt OFCCP non-discrimination pay guidelines to the private sector.

 

How To Write Job Descriptions That Are Complete, Accurate, And Legally Sound provides you with nine universal steps every employer can take to write solid job descriptions that keep your organization in step with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the final Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations.

 

Rewarding Employees In Tough Economic Times: Retention Ideas That Won't Bust Your Budget offers lots of innovative ideas for low- or even no-cost perks, services, and practices designed to help keep employees engaged and committed both during and after the current economic crisis.  This report also features guidance for managers on motivating employees through personal recognition efforts, and offers advice on how to determine which low-cost initiatives are best for your own organization.

 

New FMLA Regulations Issued By The DOL:  Key Guidelines To Help You Get In Compliance gives you a detailed breakdown of the new Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rules finalized by the Department of Labor (DOL), and even points out where these final rules differ from the proposed rules.  Learn about the new procedures used for taking military family leave, the new definitions of "continuing treatment," "periodic treatment," and "qualifying exigency," and much more.

 

Training Managers To Conduct Effective Performance Appraisals will help you to help your managers get positive results from their appraisal sessions by providing guidance on setting up appraisal training, conducting and documenting performance appraisals, and dispensing criticism.  Newly added advice explores how to create the right atmosphere in which to conduct a review, 12 common performance evaluation traps that can snare any manager, and the legal danger of having double standards in performance improvement plans.

 

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) Becomes Law summarizes new legislation that was signed by President Bush on May 21, 2008.  The report contains a synopsis of all three parts of GINA: nondiscrimination provisions related to employers, nondiscrimination provisions related to health plans, and an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act.  Specifically, learn what employment actions employers can and cannot take when it comes to the genetic information of their employees and employees' family members.
 

Turning Negative Employee Attitudes Around provides strategies for encouraging job satisfaction; suggestions for dealing with negative employees; and steps for preventing a negative attitude from becoming a legal issue.

 

Common Policy Writing Mistakes identifies four of the most common blunders employers make when drafting company policies and offers advice for avoiding these traps.  Included are actual examples of what not to write — taken straight from actual company handbooks.

 

Top 6 Ways Managers Will Land Your Company In A Lawsuit highlights six of the most common mistakes any manager can make when it comes to terminations, employee problems, policies and procedures, harassment/discrimination, retaliation, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Each section contains advice you can pass on to managers to keep them from slipping up.

 

Controlling Absenteeism And Attendance Problems arms you with the techniques on how to improve attendance through motivation, strategies for disciplining employees with chronic attendance problems, plus a rundown of how issues surrounding absenteeism are interpreted under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

 

Evaluating What Makes A Medical Condition An ADA-Qualifying Disability provides employers with guidance on how to determine whether and when some common medical conditions qualify for ADA protection.

 

State Laws On Final Pay: What And When To Pay Terminating Employees provides you with a revised state-by-state summary of vacation pay upon termination, plus an updated chart summarizing each state's final pay laws.

 

State Personnel File Access Laws provides you with a state-by-state summary of the statutes under which employees are allowed to inspect their personnel files.

 

Conducting Workplace Investigations arms you with the basic information you need to know to conduct prompt, thorough, and legal investigations...from receiving a complaint to interviewing witnesses to taking post-investigation actions.

 

Discipline Done Right offers legal and practical advice for doling out discipline, crafting and polishing a discipline policy, dealing with a problem employee, and adopting progressive discipline techniques.