Protecting Your Blindside STRATEGIC VIEW OF BUILDING A STRONG HR PROGRAM

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1 Protecting Your Blindside STRATEGIC VIEW OF BUILDING A STRONG HR PROGRAM

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3 Presentation Purpose Our goal in presenting the Protecting Your Blindside program will be a strategic view of building a strong HR program within your company that provides a positive, proactive business model containing a firewall to successfully defend employment related legal actions and allow for the development of a positive leadership style.

4 Strategic Overview 1. Developing and conducting an effective comprehensive audit of your HR related practices 2. Understanding of the employment related laws that your management staff needs to comply with 3. Review of interviewing skills needed to make successful selections 4. Develop effective performance appraisals for your organization and how to deliver them 5. The importance of proper documentation and legal issues that surround discipline/terminations 6. Key ingredients in developing and training your leadership team and how to do this on a shoestring budget 7. Managing and motivating today s cross generational workforce 8. A look at future challenges in the Complex World of HR -legal, benefits, compliance issues

5 Key Ingredients to Building and Effective HR Program The key ingredients to building an effective HR program are similar to baking a cake. When they are all there it creates a firewall and a system that is necessary to create the HR functions required in today s business world.

6 Key Ingredients 1. Job descriptions 2. Development of a handbook 3. Organized, competitive compensation/benefits program 4. Recruitment and retention of the right employees 5. Understanding of Federal Employment/Benefit laws (this includes the training of your management team) 6. Performance appraisals designed for your environment (and training of those people who deliver it) 7. Professionally trained HR staff that has a continuous focus on the ever changing world of HR 8. Leadership development of your management team with a focus on training as both an educational tool and a motivational tool for your workforce 9. Periodically perform a comprehensive audit of your HR functions

7 Areas to Cover in an HR Audit Hiring Practices Workplace Practices Discrimination and Diversity Documentation and Recordkeeping Compensation and Pay Practices Benefit Plan Review Termination Practices Post Employment Practices

8 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP WHAT IS COMING AND FROM WHO? Legislative Regulative Courts

9 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH WHAT ARE THEY UP TO? State - Workers Compensation o HB 72, 73, 75, 1078 o HB 155 o HB 156 o HB 159 U. S. Congress - More Pro-Business? - Health Care? - Probably Nothing Stalemate

10 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP HERE COMES THE REGULATION RUSH EEOC Stepped UP Enforcement - Priority on Disability Discrimination - Credit Checks - Retaliation DOL Stepped Up Enforcement - FLSA - Classification Issue - P 3 No More Catch Me If You Can o Plan o Prevent o Protect

11 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP HERE COMES THE REGULATION RUSH Five Strategic Goals o Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair competition o Ensure workplaces are safe and healthy o Assure fair and high quality work-life environments o Secure health benefits and for those not working provide income security. o Produce timely and accurate data on the economic conditions of workers and their families.

12 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP National Labor Relations Board - Employee Free Choice Act - Notification of Employee Rights - Union Organizing UAW OFCCP - Increased Enforcement - Active Case Enforcement Directive Internal Revenue Service - FLSA? - FUTA

13 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP Immigration and Custom Enforcement We Are Going After Employers - ICE Worksite Enforcement Chief. - Work Site Enforcement Strategy - I-9 Compliance Policies WHAT ABOUT THE COURTS? - Retaliation - Cat s Paw Liability - ERISA - Health Care

14 TIGHTEN YOUR CHIN STRAP WHAT PLAY DO YOU RUN TO PROTECT YOUR BLINDSIDE? Policies - Handbooks - Job Descriptions - Procedures - I-9 s

15 You Be The Judge