Webinars

• Identifying and managing toxic employees. Learn the 8 types of toxic employees, and strategies to manage each one effectively.
• Delivering constructive feedback. How to give specific, legally safe feedback, including tips for remote workers.
• Documentation best practices. Master the ABCs of performance documentation: accurate, behavior-based and consistent records that protect you legally.
• Navigating tough conversations. Use sample phrases and statements to handle difficult face-to-face meetings with confidence.
• Crafting performance-improvement plans (PIPs). Learn how to develop efficient and legally sound PIPs that guide employees toward improvement.
• Guidelines for managing behavior. 10 do’s and don’ts for managing employee behavior, including why you shouldn’t “practice psychiatry” or “practice law” as a manager.
• Making the termination decision. 8 critical questions to consider before deciding to terminate an employee.
• Conducting termination meetings. Follow 10 steps to ensure low-stress termination meetings that minimize the risk of lawsuits.

• Laws and regulations regarding the use of AI in hiring.
• Practical tips when conducting pre-employment tests.
• Dos and don’ts when it comes to personality tests.
• Topics to avoid in interviews and applications.
• What you can ask in interviews, including noncompete agreements.
• Best practices surrounding background checks, credit checks and drug testing.

• Why you need to limit where remote work takes place, whether it happens regularly or occasionally.
• Learn why in most cases remote work isn’t a right, but sometimes is a required reasonable accommodation, including new rules for religious accommodations.
• Discover how to ascertain if one of your teleworkers is also working for another employer.
• Hybrid work doesn’t fix your remote-work legal problems–in fact, it could multiply them. Learn how to minimize the risk.
• Why you need harassment rules for telework NOW.
• Comply with laws that require you to pay remote and hybrid workers for the surprise expenses they incur on your behalf.
•Understand state and federal laws on timekeeping and breaks for remote staff.
• Learn how to properly classify remote workers as exempt vs. non-exempt, and employee vs. independent contractor.

• Investigating Allegations of Harassment: Kathy Perkins
• Immigration Challenges and Enforcement: Chris Thomas
• What Can Save Employment and Labor Law? Philip Miscimarra

• Learn the basics of religious rights in the workplace and why making accommodations is absolutely crucial while the EEOC tests how far employers must go.
• Discover popular accommodation requests for practitioners of major world religions and some minor ones, too.
• Guard against fraud by learning what you can ask about an employee’s claimed religion or belief system to determine if the request is sincere.
• Walk through the form you should use to assess every request and why each must go through the HR office before being rejected.
• Understand what a “sincerely held religious belief” is, with plenty of examples.
• Step through the religious accommodation process from beginning to end and compare your current approach to a best-practices format.
• Learn exactly what kind of documentation you must have to show that making an accommodation creates an undue burden on your operations.
• Understand how to handle competing religious practices and accommodations in the workplace, including those whose beliefs require proselytizing and those who want to be left alone.
• Create social media policies that allow religious expression. Hint: Off-duty religious social media posts are almost always off-limits.

• Why you need a formal attendance policy. Learn how to structure a policy that establishes attendance as an essential job function.
• How the FMLA impacts absenteeism. Understand when intermittent absences are a protected right and how they affect your attendance policies.
• Tracking absences while staying compliant. Learn how to account for FMLA absences in performance evaluations and no-fault attendance policies.
• Handling attendance issues with disabled workers. Discover how to prove attendance is an essential job function while complying with ADA regulations.
• Accommodating pregnancy-related absences. Reasonably accommodate pregnancy-related absences and restrictions before and after birth under the new PWFA.
• PUMP Act compliance. Manage unlimited milk-expression breaks under the PUMP Act rules.
• How military leave impacts attendance. Learn the rules under USERRA, including extended absences for active duty.
• Spotting and addressing leave abuse. Identify red flags and implement strategies to prevent misuse of protected leave.
• Balancing religious accommodations. Navigate new Supreme Court standards on religion-based time-off requests while maintaining fairness in the workplace.

• The latest changes. Discover how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act changes 1099 reporting, along with 8 airtight steps for completing 1099s that will keep the IRS off your back.
• Reporting requirements. Box-by-box reporting requirements for 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC, and when you may need to file both.
• E-filing credentials. What is an e-filing credential, how do you get one and what happens if you don’t?
• Filing 1099s. 3 crucial rules to determine if you need to file 1099 forms, and why you might need to give 1099s to employees, too—not just independent contractors.
• Taxpayer IDs. How to tell if a contractor’s Taxpayer ID Number is legit, and what to do if it’s not.
• Protect your company. The 6 crucial moves to activate the safe harbor for de minimis math errors.
• Leveraging available tools. Two free IRS services that should wipe out penalties for filing incorrect forms.

• Leave as an accommodation. Understand when leave may not qualify as a reasonable accommodation (rarely) and when it may be required for cases of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and more.
• Guaranteed accommodations. Walk away with a checklist of the accommodations the EEOC says you can’t question—no doctor’s note, no forms, no delay.
• Top practical accommodations. Easy-to-implement, detailed, practical accommodations that won’t unduly disrupt the workplace while complying with the law.
• Lessons from the courtroom. Now that lawsuits have gone to court or settled, embrace lessons learned the hard way so you won’t repeat them.
• Compliant break rooms no matter your industry. Walk away with instructions for creating compliant milk-expression rooms for any workplace.
• Postpartum accommodations. Understand the obligations you have postpartum, including how soon you may have to bring new mothers back, even if they still can’t perform every essential function.

• I-9 modernization updates. Review recent changes to I-9 processes, including remote verification, E-Verify and the increased scrutiny of electronic I-9 systems provided by outside vendors.
• ICE visits and raid preparation. Know exactly what to do before ICE drops by, including spotting and fixing I-9 problems.
• Correcting issues. Identify and address missing or incomplete Forms I-9 and other common issues.
• Increased enforcement. Learn tactics to navigate the new ICE taskforces and Homeland Security’s I-9 audit quotas leading to dramatic increases in enforcement activity.
• Avoid operational impacts. Discover steps that can be taken now to avoid the impact of losing your workforce in a sudden raid or I-9 audit.
• Employer liability and joint employment. Explore government priorities around criminal prosecution of employers and a continued emphasis on joint employment with staffing agencies and contractors.
• Answers to YOUR questions. In a recent webinar, numerous questions were asked of the presenter. Bring your unique questions and get all of them answered.

• Review our checklist of 2025 updates, and make any required changes to your policies that you may have missed.
• Prepare for anticipated handbook policy changes in 2026, and get suggested language to aid in your revisions.
• Find out how to keep DEI policies compliant under new federal directives.
• Prepare for shifts in religious accommodation rules and learn how to build compliant policies.
• Learn the key DOL changes: Overtime, heat rules and other workplace basics.
• Discover pregnancy-related EEOC updates and their implications for your policies.