The Essentials of HR Law
HR law simply isn’t a place where you can afford to take a trial-and-error, learn-as-you-go approach. The risks are just too high. And the risk isn’t only for your organization. Increasingly, managers and supervisors are being personally named in employee lawsuits and being found liable.
This program will show you where the potential for costly mistakes exist and provides practical guidelines for treating employees fairly and legally. You’ll get key employment law overviews and valuable guidelines and suggestions to keep you in legally safe territory when you’re making personnel decisions and interacting with employees within your organization.!!!!
Course Outcomes
- Laws governing employee-employer and independent contractor relationships
- Mandated laws and organizational policies for fair and equitable treatment of applicants and employees
- Best practices for lawfully recruiting, interviewing and managing employees
- The Fair Labor Standards Act and compensation fundamentals
- Employee protection benefits, including health care continuation, unemployment insurance and job-protected family and medical leave
- Laws that relate members of the Armed Forces, occupational health and safety, medical expenses and wage replacement benefits
Course Agenda
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The Essentials of HR Law
HR law simply isn’t a place where you can afford to take a trial-and-error, learn-as-you-go approach. The risks are just too high. And the risk isn’t only for your organization. Increasingly, managers and supervisors are being personally named in employee lawsuits and being found liable.
This program will show you where the potential for costly mistakes exist and provides practical guidelines for treating employees fairly and legally. You’ll get key employment law overviews and valuable guidelines and suggestions to keep you in legally safe territory when you’re making personnel decisions and interacting with employees within your organization.!!!!
Module 1: The Employment Relationship
Using the guidance contained in this module, you’ll be able to better analyze the nature of employer-employee relationships and the laws that arise from them.
- Discuss the basic common law rules governing the employer-employee relationship in the United States
- Determine the differences between employees and independent contractors
- Differentiate between vertical and horizontal employment relationships
Module 2: Equal Employment Opportunity
This module provides an understanding of federal, state and local laws, regulations, ordinances and codes that guide employment decisions as well as your own organization’s policies, procedures and unwritten practices.
- Differentiate between unlawful discrimination and unlawful harassment
- Identify the most commonly protected classes of individuals under federal, state and local laws
- Discuss the nature of unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment
Module 3: Talent Management, Discipline and Discharges
Attracting, hiring, managing and retaining excellent employees is a process — not an accident. Explore current best practices in lawfully recruiting, interviewing and managing employees throughout an organization.
- Identify what lawful interviewing is — and is not
- Evaluate employees without bias
- Recognize the components of a fair and equitable progressive discipline policy
Module 4: Compensation Basics
Individual managers may be liable for violations of both federal and state compensation laws. This module provides meaningful guidance on the fundamentals of these statutes that apply to almost every organization in the country.
- Discuss the nature of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Compute basic overtime
- List the requirements for exemptions from overtime under the FLSA
Module 5: Employee Protection Benefits
Three mandated benefit laws that provide significant protections to workers during dark times in their careers are related to continuation of health care coverage, job protected leave related to certain health conditions and limited wage replacement insurance during times of unemployment. This module presents important aspects of these impactful statutes.
- Recognize health care continuation coverage time frames and costs
- Discuss the benefits and limitations of job protected family and medical leave
- Recognize the nature of federal and state unemployment insurance benefits
Module 6: Important HR Laws
This module explores the basics of four very different HR laws — three that apply to almost every worker in America and one that applies to those who will serve, are serving or have served in the Armed Forces. These laws impact both managerial and staff personnel alike.
- Discuss the medical expense and wage replacement benefits of state workers’ compensation statutes
- Recognize the respective safety-related responsibilities of both the employer and the employee
- Identify the job-related rights of those who will serve, currently serve and have served in the Armed Forces
- Explain the limits of privacy in the private sector workplace