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HR Academy Courses

Affirmative Action Courses within HR Academy

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HR Academy Courses

Employment Law Primer

This course is a comprehensive overview of key laws impacting the workplace and the responsibilities of HR for complying with them. Participants will also learn how compliance with the law affects policies and procedures in their organizations.

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Wage and Hour Laws: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

The Department of Labor added 250 new investigators in fiscal year 2010, increasing the total number of investigators by one-third. The DOL is expected to add 90 additional investigators in 2011, with a $20 million increase in the enforcement budget. With that in mind, this course addresses an issue of utmost importance to many companies and employees - money. This FLSA overview includes exempt status, minimum wage, overtime, working time, and docking pay. 

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Compensable Time: Understanding when Employees Need to be Paid

Understanding when employees need to be paid under the Fair Labor Standards Act can be very difficult. This session will cover frequent scenarios that employers may encounter and provide guidance on when employees, whether exempt or non-exempt from overtime, should be paid. 

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Understanding FMLA, ADA, and Workers' Compensation

HR professionals effectively managing the interplay of these three laws can reduce benefit costs, control absenteeism and reduce discrimination claims. 

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Hot Topics in Wage and Hour Compliance

On December 13, 2010, the Wage and Hour Division and the American Bar Association began an unprecedented collaboration providing for an Attorney Referral System. When complainants are informed that the Wage and Hour Division is declining to pursue their complaints, they may also be given a toll-free number to contact the newly created ABA-approved Attorney Referral System. This collaboration makes it critical for companies to understand recent trends in wage and hour compliance and high risk areas.

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FMLA Basics

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the basics of the Family & Medical Leave Act.

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FMLA: Beyond the Basics

For many HR professionals, it is necessary to know and understand the more sophisticated aspects of managing FMLA and the subtle nuances of interpreting employer obligations, as well as best practices for compliance. This course will review some of the advanced issues that employers face when administering the FMLA at their workplace.

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Recruiting: Back to the Basics

With the overwhelming amount of information available on new and innovative recruiting sources, it can be easy to overlook the basics of a successful recruitment strategy. Designed for professionals new to recruiting, or those faced with deveoping a recruiting strategy from scratch, this course covers the basics of recruiting and proven best practices for meeting your organization's hiring needs.

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Strategic Human Resources Planning

This course teaches participants a “step-by-step process” for developing a business plan that ties all human resource functions to the organization’s strategic short- and long-term goals.

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Preparing for a Flu Pandemic: Protecting Your Employees and Your Productivity 

The onset of a pandemic disease can disrupt business worldwide with little or no notice. In this course, participants learn how being prepared can prevent spread of a disease and maintain productivity.

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Rewards and Recognition

When the economy is down, many employees are expected to take on more responsibility with less resources. With few organizations able to provide financial incentives, strategic recognition and rewards programs become critical to retaining those employees. This webinar presents the buisiness case for measuring the effectiveness of your employee recognition programs and the positive outcomes most often achieved.

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Ten Things to Know in the New Year

This course provides participants with an overview of recent changes to employment regulations and explains how to stay in compliance with employment law.

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Affirmative Action Courses within HR Academy

 

Basics of Affirmative Action

This course introduces participants to federal affirmative action requirements. It includes the regulatory foundation for affirmative action, AAP structure, data tracking requirements, and implementation activities. Also included are compliance enforcement and hot topics.

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Conducting an Affirmative Action Self-Audit

Affirmative action regulations change often enough that a federal contractor can easily fall out of compliance without even realizing it. This course gives participants a self-audit tool and teaches them how to use it to review their practices for compliance. Resources for gaining and maintaining compliance are also provided.

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The 5W's of Affirmative Action Plans: Who, What, When, Where and Why… and Other Record Keeping Requirements

Being a federal contractor involves stringent recordkeeping practices, especially when it comes to affirmative action. This course follows the "lifespan of an employee" to teach participants what records should be created and maintained at each stage of employment. Special attention is paid to the most difficult recordkeeping requirement - applicant tracking. The course also includes documentation of good faith efforts and common compliance evaluation requests.

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Designing an Affirmative Action Compliant Recruitment Process

Whether you have just become an affirmative action employer, or have been managing federal contractor obligations for years, this session will clarify and simplify the steps to compliant recruiting. From job descriptions to reasonable accommodations and from recordkeeping requirements to outreach efforts, having the right process is key to meeting affirmative action requirements and placing the best possible candidates. This presentation covers regulatory requirements and best practices gained through extensive experience developing affirmative action programs.

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Introduction to the Internet Applicant Definition

This course is designed to educate participants on the basic elements of the OFCCP's internet applicant definition. It includes the four criteria required for someone to be an internet applicant as well as the concepts of basic qualifications and data management techniques. Recordkeeping requirements and enforcement trends are also covered.

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Applying the Internet Applicant Definition

This intermediate course provides a detailed description of the benefits and challenges associated with the OFCCP's internet applicant definition. It includes common applicant tracking mistakes, best practices, and internal auditing procedures. Also covered are issues associated with utilizing external databases and recruiting agencies.

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Demystifying Statistics: Affirmative Action Reporting and Analysis

Few people choose a career in human resources because they like math. This course explains affirmative action statistics - such as the two different 80% rules and what a standard deviation is - in terms that everyone can understand.

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OFCCP Audit & Enforcement Trends

This course provides participants with an overview of recent trends in OFCCP compliance evaluations.

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Regulatory Changes in Affirmative Action

Topics covered in this course will vary to correspond with changing regulations. Examples include the VETS-100A transition, E-Verify, and Compensation Analysis.

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