Online Webinar 2019 - 3-Hour Virtual Seminar on Updating Your Employee Handbook to Comply With New Laws in 2019

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The purposes and the scope of employee handbook policies and the practices are changing and expanding. From a siloed HR activity that creates insular documents concerned primarily with communicating the organizational work rules and benefits, employee handbook policies and practices have evolved into a critical component of an organization-wide management process that maximizes organizations' achievement of business objectives, enhances the value of their human capital, and minimizes legal risk.
To increase the effectiveness of their employment policies, organizations will have to: 1) enhance their business, operational, and legal intelligence to ensure they have identified the changing external and internal factors that affect their policies; 2) increase internal stakeholder participation in the handbook development process to obtain greater employee commitment and operational alignment; 3) establish new metrics to assess handbook policy and practices performance and measure the achievement of organization goals; and 4) implement internal controls that identify and alert management when employee handbook process failures occur.
Thus, employee handbooks will increasingly have to ensure that they are aligned with strategic and business objectives, are properly drafted, and are effectively implemented.
Additionally, they will have to:
Enhance the employment brand
Play a key role in recruitment and retention
Enhance employee relations, employee morale, and productivity
Contribute to uniform and consistent application, interpretation, and enforcement of organizational policies and rules
Protect the organization against claims of improper employee/supervisor conduct
Reduce the organization's exposure to employment related liabilities
From this perspective, employee handbooks will continue to play an important role in communicating with and providing information for employees.
Session Highlights
Key employee handbook issues in 2018 and 2019
A review of the NLRB's revised commentary on employee handbooks
How organizations can reduce the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation
Review the basics of employee handbook development
Discuss the expanding purposes and scope of employee handbooks
Learn the dimensions of critical handbook policies
Understand the framework of employee handbook audits activities
Why Should you Attend
Employee handbooks are a critical tool in providing important information to employees. They describe what you expect from your employees and what employees can (should) expect from you. Employee handbooks provide critical information about your organization your workplace. Employee handbooks tell employees are expected to fit in.
Employee handbooks further formalize the mutual expectations of your organization and that of your employees. In delineating these expectations, employee handbooks create opportunities and risks. Employee handbooks further provide your organization with the opportunity to enhance the value of human capital, make your organizations more competitive, and improve individual and organizational performance. Conversely, handbooks can impede the achievement of business objectives, increase employment related liabilities, and reduce managerial prerogatives by making promises or commitments to certain procedural safeguards that your organization did not intend to make. As noted in the recent memorandum from the General Counsel of the NLRB: incorrectly designed employee handbooks can violate the law and having a "chilling effect" on employees' activities.
Thus, employee handbooks increasingly provide you with the opportunity to make your work force more committed and supportive of your goals. Unfortunately, they also provide the basis for employees' legal actions- at the federal, state, and local levels- and can significantly reduce employees' commitment to your organization's success.
Who will Benefit
HR Professionals
Risk Managers
Internal Auditors
In-house Counsel
CFOs
CEOs
Management Consultants
Other Individuals who want to Learn how to use Develop and Implement Employee Handbooks
Speaker:
Ronald Adler is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran owned, human resource management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking, strategic HR-business issues and unemployment insurance.He has more than 37 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.
Mr. Adler is a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit (the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool.
Mr. Adler is an adjunct professor at Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development and teaches a course on HR auditing. Mr. Adler is a certified instructor on employment practices for the CPCU Society and has conducted continuing education courses for the AICPA, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Consultants, and the Society for Human Resource Management.