Immigration Issues - Implications for HR and Insurance Professionals

As Congress deliberates the dimensions the federal-state relationship has in managing the nation's immigration laws, organizations must manage strategic, operational, and compliance immigration priorities. As a business priority, the hallmark of successful organizations is their ability to respond to and satisfy an increasingly diverse global marketplace. As an employment brand priority, an organization's immigration policy and practices can have a positive or negative effect on its ability to attract and retain top performers, key employees, and critical skills. And as a compliance priority, the federal and state governments continue to commit resources and focus their attention on employers "to ensure that they are playing by the rules. This focus should include more routine use of civil sanctions". The risks and consequences of ineffective and mismanaged immigration policies are reduced revenue, lost business opportunities, and an adverse impact on talent management. The risks and consequences of noncompliance include civil penalties, debarment, and criminal prosecution of company executives - including HR directors.

This webinar discusses key immigration issues and audit techniques that may reduce exposure to immigration-related risks and liabilities, increase the degree of compliance, and enhance the ability to demonstrate the level of that compliance to government agencies, boards of directors, and third parties.

• Understand key immigration issues and priorities
• Identify and assess immigration issue-related risks
• Utilize immigration audit techniques and tools
• Audit compliance with I-9 Form and E-Verify requirements
• Monitor continuous immigration compliance

Whether as a part of federal and state governmental fiats or as a part of your organization's commitment to attract and employ necessary employees, immigration control remains a critical issue for HR and insurance professionals. This webinar is designed to update and discuss key immigration employment issues and provide organizations with an understanding of those issues

This webinar will be of value to:

• HR professionals
• Managers and supervisors
• Compliance officers
• Risk managers
• Internal auditors

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.