This valuable day with legal experts provides tremendous insight into the latest laws, rulings, and practical interpretations that allows the executive or HR professional to perform a difficult job confidently, avoid expensive litigation, and keep personal knowledge up-to-date.

Learning Objectives:

• Legally stay within the rules in dealing with the requirements of federal and state laws and regulations
• Identify and implement changes in policy and procedure made necessary by new legal requirements and changes in existing requirements
• Avoid making risky and costly mistakes due to lack of awareness of recent court decisions that change the way employment issues must be handled
• Explore creative alternatives in dealing with problems you are facing by discovering what your peers are doing on such issues

Agenda:

8:30 – 9:40 AM:                     What HR professionals should know about legal principles surrounding benefits, COBRA, plan documents, ERISA (Michael Nader)

9:40 – 9:50 AM:                     Break

9:50 – 10:50 AM:                   Internal investigations (Pam Krivda)

10:50 – 11 AM:                      Break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM:           What an employee-advocate wishes all HR professionals knew and did best (Laren Knoll)

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM:           Lunch break

12:45 – 2:15 PM:                    One year in on COVID: what have we learned, best practices, interaction with FMLA and ADA (Tara K. Burke)

2:15 – 2:30 PM:                      Break

2:30 – 4:30 PM:                      Plaintiff and Defense Counsel Discuss Workplace Problem Areas (Jeffrey Shoskin and David Torchia)

Who Should Attend:

• Business owners, executives, managers, and HR professionals.

SHRM-CP/SCP PDCs: 7