Employee Handbooks: 2020
Learn to build and audit an employee handbook that supports business goals, strengthens employee relations and avoids policies that create legal risk.
Speaker
Ronald L. Adler
HR consultant and HR auditing expert · Laurdan Associates Inc. · 42 years in HR consulting
Overview
Employee handbooks have grown from simple lists of work rules and benefits into part of an organization-wide management process that supports business objectives, adds value to human capital and reduces legal risk. This 90-minute employee handbook training explains how to make yours effective.
You'll review the basics of handbook development, the expanding purposes and scope of handbooks, a handbook template and the dimensions of critical policies. The session covers an NLRB General Counsel memorandum warning that badly designed handbooks can break the law and chill employee activity, how to close the gap between issuing a policy and implementing it, and a framework for handbook audits.
It also explains the role of stakeholder input, metrics and internal controls in keeping handbook policies working.
Why attend: A handbook sets out what employers and employees can expect of each other. Done well, it supports the employment brand, recruitment, retention, morale and consistent policy enforcement. Done poorly, it can make promises you didn't intend, increase liability and undercut managers. This session suits HR professionals, risk managers, internal auditors, in-house counsel, CFOs, CEOs, management consultants and anyone who develops or implements handbooks.
What’s covered
- Key employee handbook issues
- The NLRB General Counsel memorandum on employee handbooks
- Reducing the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation
- Basics of employee handbook development
- The expanding purposes and scope of employee handbooks
- Handbook template and the dimensions of critical policies
- A framework for employee handbook audits
- Stakeholder participation, metrics and internal controls
- Aligning handbooks with strategic and business objectives
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Ronald L. Adler, president of Laurdan Associates Inc. has 42 years of HR consulting experience and has served as a consulting expert on work force, workplace, and HR management issues for The Wall Street Journal, HRMagazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. Mr. Adler's research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the EEOC, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), insurers, and international organizations.
Mr. Adler is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management, employment practices, and UI issues. Mr. Adler is the author and editor of the Employment-Labor Law Audit (ELLA), the internationally recognized HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment process.
Mr. Adler is an adjunct professor at Villanova University where teaches a graduate level course in HR Auditing. Mr. Adler is also a certified instructor for The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society on employment practices liability and HR auditing issues and has conducted continuing education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on HR management and HR auditing topics. Additionally Mr. Adler has served as an adjunct instructor at the Baltimore City Community College on workplace diversity and sexual harassment.
Mr. Adler is an appointee to State of Maryland's Unemployment Insurance (UI) Oversight Committee and previously served as an appointee to the State's UI Funding Task Force, the UI Advisory Committee, and the state's Workforce Training Initiative. Mr. Adler has served as a moderator at the State of Maryland's Annual Human Relations Conference and at the state's Annual Small Business Conference.
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