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Provider:
Sterling Education Services, Inc.
Topic(s):
Human Resources > Recruiting Skills
Who Should Attend?
Human resource professionals
Full Seminar Description
Topics include: How to Define Legal Job Criteria and Legally Find and Qualify Applicants; Background Checks & Hiring Decisions; Contingent Employees - Joint Employer Issues with Temporary; Overview of Confidentiality Agreements, Non-Compete Agreements; The Termination Process; Information Disclosure Issues. Fee per person: $359Hiring and Firing: How to Do It Right
AGENDA
I. How to Define Legal Job Criteria and Legally Find and Qualify Applicants
- A. Establishing the legal “baseline” for hiring
- -- 1. Defining job criteria within employer’s legal freedom to do so
- -- 2. Job criteria based on “job-relatedness” and “business necessity”
- -- 3. Legal recruiting: advertising, agencies, referrals, oral promises
- B. Pre-employment activity
- -- 1. Job applications and interviews
- -- 2. Testing for: aptitude, psychological profile, honesty, genetic pre-dispositions, physical agility and dexterity
- -- 3. Screening for drugs and alcohol
- -- 4. Medical examinations and reviews
- -- 5. Confidentiality and defamation issues
II. Background Checks & Hiring Decisions
- A. Background checks
- -- 1. Verifying information on the application and checking references
- -- 2. Fair Credit Reporting Act implications
- -- 3. Checking credit history
- -- 4. Lawful bankruptcy discrimination
- -- 5. Criminal background checks and lawful arrest/conviction record discrimination
- B. Hiring decision issues
- -- 1. Restrictions by available applicant categories
- -- 2. Immigration law requirements
- -- 3. ADA requirements
- -- 4. Medical insurance issues
- -- 5. Lawful conditions of employment
- -- 6. Compensation and work schedule issues
- -- 7. Negligent hiring liability
- -- 8. Record keeping
III. Contingent Employees - Joint Employer Issues with Temporary And Leased Employees Under Various Arrangements
IV. Overview of Confidentiality Agreements, Non-Compete Agreements And Non-Solicitation Agreements
- A. What are they and when should they be used
- B. Full disclosure to the applicant
- C. Providing adequate consideration
- D. Enforceability
V. The Termination Process
- A. Limitations on the employer’s right to terminate
- -- 1. Employment contracts and oral agreements
- -- 2. Personnel policies and handbooks
- -- 3. Vulnerability to claims of retaliation
- B. State and federal wage and hour issues
- C. Documentation of the decision and the process
- D. Insurance and benefits continuation/conversion issues
- E. Separation and release agreements
VI. Information Disclosure Issues
- A. Confidentiality of personnel records and information
- B. Public sector records
- C. Lawful employment verification and references
- D. Duty to warn
- E. Defamation, invasion of privacy, etc.
- -- 1. Staff discussions
- -- 2. Third party disclosures
Sponsor Background:
Sterling Education Services Inc. continues a long tradition of continuing education programs first begun in Eau Claire Wisconsin in 1983, dedicated to furthering educational development within the United States through instruction of the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community. A hallmark of this tradition is Sterling's dedication to excellence in its relationships with those it serves: faculty members, attendees, and employees. We strive to be fair and easy to deal with at all levels, delivering excellent service and value on time, every time.Specifically, Sterling Education Services, Inc. offers seminars on timely topics relevant to succeeding in the constantly changing economic, legal, and cultural environment within which professionals, educators, governmental units and agencies, businesses, non-profit entities and individuals must operate today. Sterling Education Services brings its seminars to you, enlisting faculty members from among the most distinguished professionals in your area, who are experts in topics they are presenting.
You can attend a Sterling seminar in your own community, and learn what you need to know from people you know and respect, all at a reasonable fee. You will also receive hand-out materials that are permanently bound into a reference book that will be a valuable resource after the seminar. If attending a particular seminar that you need doesn't work for you, the seminars are also available on audio tape. We look forward to serving you.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Time: Registration begins at 8:00am
This seminar begins promptly at 8:30am and will end at 4:30pm.
There will be a one hour break for lunch (on your own)
Refund Policy: If you pre-register and are unable to attend the seminar, your registration is transferable; just notify us of your substitution before the seminar. Or, if you call us at least three days before the seminar, you may request one of the following:
- Full transferable credit to another seminar
- Send someone in your place
- A refund minus a $25 processing fee
- OR a CD and manual set
CREDIT
Please remember to bring your license number, ID or other necessary information to the seminar to ensure proper reporting of continuing education credit.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credit and Real Estate Continuing Education Credit are available for many seminars and vary by location.
Sterling Education Services is registered with the National Association of State Boards
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