LEAP 2025 Bonus Resources

Thanks for attending LEAP 2025, here are your bonus resources! We’ve compiled a select group of content from HR Employment Law Advisor to complement the LEAP 2025 sessions. If you like what you see, click here for 30% off an annual Premium Membership.

Leap Kickoff Bonuses

• The Benefits Workshop
  • Ensure your handbook leaves out details about benefits
  • Design benefits plans that equally and fairly serve employees of all ages
• The Handbooks Workshop
  • Remove unintended ‘promises’ from handbook
  • Checklist: Make sure your handbook includes all these elements
• Crafting Legally Compliant Job Descriptions
  • Job descriptions key to ADA accommodations
  • Job descriptions are key to legal promotions
  • Get it in writing: Creating effective and legal job descriptions

Pre-Conference Workshops

• California’s Employment Law Maze: Stay Ahead of the Curve
  • Can we set alternative schedules to avoid California’s overtime requirement?
  • California’s new independent contractor law suggests best classification practices
• Documentation Essentials and Pitfalls: The Art of HR Record-Keeping
  • Use this simple log system to document employee performance
  • How to Document Disciplinary and Performance Problems
• A New Day For DEI
  • Rebrand DEI to attract applicants (and avoid lawsuits)
  • DEI under fire: Employers find legal ways to diversify
• The Hiring Workshop: Legal Strategies and Best Practices
  • Using AI in hiring? Beware liability for bias
  • Hiring: Craft Job Postings That Cut Legal Liability
  • A step-by-step guide to legally safe hiring practices

LEAP 2025 Main Sessions

• Employment Law Update 2025: Key HR Challenges
  • Here come the new state employment laws for 2025
  • Executive order means federal contractors have new anti-discrimination rules to follow
• Washington Watch: Assessing Election 2024
  • Trump executive orders to shake up world of work, HR profession
• Balancing Civility and Employee Expression in the Workplace 
  • Feel free to ban offensive political memes and comments
  • Yes, you need a code of conduct. What should it say?
• AI and HR: Shaping the Future Together
  • HR’s big artificial intelligence question: Does AI candidate screening discriminate?
  • Managing Responsible Use of AI in HR
• Managing Workplace Drug Issues: Policies, Compliance and Best Practices
  • Drug-free policy vs. legal marijuana: Call your lawyer!
  • A matter of balance: Medical marijuana, the ADA and drug testing
• OSHA Compliance: Employer Responsibilities for Workplace Safety
  • OSHA proposes first national heat-protection rule
  • Strangers on your shop floor: What you need to know about OSHA’s new walkaround rule
  • Checklist: Complying with OSHA
• The Power of the NLRB: Protected Concerted Activities, Handbooks and Organizing
  • 15 questions to assess your handbook
  • 5 dangerous omissions from your employee handbook
  • The National Labor Relations Act, Concerted Activity and Your Handbook
• Protecting Your Business Interest When Employer Agreements Are Under Attack 
  • What’s the status of ban on noncompete agreements?
  • 17 Ways to Protect Company Trade Secrets
• Avoiding Costly Misclassification Mistakes: Employee vs. Independent Contractor
  • You can’t dodge Title VII by misclassifying employees as independent contractors
  • 7 provisions not to include in your employment contracts
  • Making the Classification Call: Employee or Independent Contractor?
• Staying Ahead of Immigration Audits and Investigations
  • How to Manage I-9 Compliance
  • Acceptable I-9 Documents
• Wage-and-Hour Pitfalls: Avoiding Common Employer Mistakes
  • Obey state & local wage-and-hour laws in addition to the federal FLSA
  • Audit: Test Your Overtime Compliance
• What Keeps HR Up at Night: Strategies to Help You Sleep Well
  • HR pros: Courts will hold you to the highest standards
  • Costco’s masterclass on responding to DEI backlash
• Proactive Prevention: Identifying and Addressing Workplace Harassment
  • 4 steps to make sure anti-harassment policies, practices succeed
  • Illegal harassment vs. legal (but still wrong) bullying
  • Don’t be swayed by the top 9 excuses for harassment
  • Draw the line between ‘tough talk’ and harassment
• Pregnant Workers — New Laws & Evolving Expectations
  • When do PWFA-covered absences turn into FMLA-covered leave?
  • Pregnancy Accommodation Form
  • Managing and Accommodating Pregnant Employees
• Surviving the Expanding Landscape of Reasonable Accommodations
  • Ensure bosses don’t block accommodations
  • ADA Accommodation Change Form
  • Religious Accommodation Request Form
• Investigations: Getting It Wrong Is Not an Option
  • Document every step in investigation
  • Build toolkit to use every time you launch an investigation
  • Investigations: Interview all bystanders

Post Conference Workshops

• Structuring Pay with Confidence: Transparency, Equity and Audits
  • Pay equity trends and data: What HR departments need to know
  • Pay disparities: The impact of hiring higher-paid employees
  • Personnel Practices Audit: Complying With the Equal Pay Act
• Conquering the FMLA’s Trickiest Scenarios
  • What managers need to know about the FMLA
  • How to Manage Intermittent FMLA Leave
  • Checklist: 11 steps to investigating FMLA abuse during the medical certification process (Form)
• You’ve Been Sued: How to Prepare and Prevail
  • Avoiding employee lawsuits: 5 lessons from the court
  • Your personal assets at risk! What to do if you are sued