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Speakers Bureau Topics
Joan Curtice
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The Benefits of Doing an HR Audit
This presentation reviews the basics of an HR audit including how to look at a company's existing programs and policies an compares them to what needs to exist to ensure legal compliance.
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Your First Human Resources Department? How to Create an HR Tool Kit to Insure Legal Compliance
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HR Tool Kit is designed to help your company be legally compliant. It
is a checklist of guidelines and suggestions to insure that companies
implement the necessary essentials of general human resources management
and helps your company to be compliant with state and federal laws. This
program explores the HR Tool Kit concept, including examples of what the
kit includes.
- Are You Ready? How Employers Need to React to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a landmark decision that affirms the rights of same-sex couples to marry. All of the legal ramifications, challenges and clarifications of this decision will evolve and be made clearer over time. One reality is clear: employers are faced with the need to make changes to some of their current policies and benefits.
- Keeping Your Company Safe From Harassment Violations
Learn about costly decisions handed down by both the EEOC and the MCAD and how to protect your company from these expensive violations. The most successful companies practice safety and fairness procedures and consistently reap rewards for doing so. Safe and fair work environments are not only demanded by law but typically result in increased motivation and productivity. This presentation covers the basics of safe work environments.
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Fairness to Employees: Why Your Company Should Care
Many companies, whether through inattention or ignorance, end up putting their firms at risk of the penalty of paying millions of dollars in fines by disregarding "employee fairness laws." This program covers points of harassment and discrimination statutes to which companies must adhere, including the risks and costs of ignoring them.
- When Your "Favorite" Employee May be Putting You at Risk
The federal government has a category called "Protected Class," meaning certain demographic groups and those with disabilities. But the real "protected class" may be those employee "favorites," often the company rainmaker or star producer. Management is generally reticent to place any restrictions on such a person's behavior for fear of losing their productive output to the company. This "favored person" may be exhibiting potentially destructive behaviors, making others uncomfortable, or acting in an outright discriminatory or even a bullying manner. This program covers descriptions of such behaviors and some recommended tactics for dealing with employees whose behavior is putting the firm in legal jeopardy.