Category: HR Compliance & Labor Laws◢

While the last two years have taught us all to prepare for the unexpected, employers should prepare for several specific trends.

This webinar will identify those trends and provide guidance regarding how employers should prepare:
– COVID-19 mandates will increasingly collide with a tight labor market. How should employers navigate these opposing forces?
– What should employers do to prepare for the moment when “fully vaccinated” means getting a booster shot or a new vaccine?
– What types of claims will employers see from employees, and how can they prepare?
– Are non-competes an option in response to the Great Resignation?

Now more than ever, HR leaders find themselves navigating situations where there is no clear playbook and no clear “right answer.” HR professionals are constantly evaluating options, interpreting law and weighing risk. 

In this session, Michelle Bomberger, CEO and Managing Attorney at Equinox Business Law Group, will teach you to think like a lawyer and will provide you with a proven method and mindset for weighing alternatives, evaluating risk and moving forward more confidently in a complex environment. 

Before 2020, performance management was already challenging for employers. Now, it often feels like employers just can’t win.

Our upcoming webinar will cover tips and strategies for handling performance management in an increasingly difficult environment for employers.

Even before COVID-19 completely changed traditional work practices, reliable employee attendance was a challenge. Millennial and Gen Z employees want to work when they want and where they want. And new state and federal laws give employees more time off of work for medical, military, civic, and personal reasons.

In this high-energy, interactive session, Jodi Slavik tackles the trending employment issue of managing employee attendance in the midst of cultural and legal change.

Unlike physical injuries, mental illness can show up as subtle, erratic behavior that is easy to miss or dismiss until it becomes unhealthy or even dangerous.  These challenges are amplified at work, where employers have a duty to protect employees, but to also avoid discrimination. 

This presentation will jump feet-first into the grey area of mental health accommodation, using real case-studies to address the nuances of notice, interaction, and effective resolution. 

Necessity has made WFH arrangements more commonplace.

And those employers who already supported WFH are probably doing just fine. But the reality is that many employers likely rushed to create WFH arrangements and are now realizing that they may need better policies and practices in place if this is to become the new norm.

In this webinar, Aaron Goldstein, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, returns to do a deeper dive on flexible work arrangements. He will provide updated information on WFH and share his legal expertise, in order to support employers who are trying to navigate flex-work arrangements in this unique time.

As you prepare to transition employees back to full-time work in the office, it’s important to formalize your policies.

Michelle Bomberger, founder, CEO and Managing Attorney at Equinox Business Law Group, will share the legal considerations of the transition, as well as how to still remain practical and sensitive to the anxiety and uncertainty your employees may feel in making this shift.

Recently published details from the journalists that broke the #metoo stories in 2017 are exposing new upsetting details about these stories–particularly about how companies and their representatives abused the legal system to discredit victims and cover up crimes. These stories contain important lessons for companies and the HR Professionals that work for them.

In this session, Attorney Aaron Goldstein will discuss key lessons and implications for employment practices including: confronting blind spots, non-disclosure agreements and respectful investigations.

Learn how to go beyond mere compliance and discover how any HR leader can both serve the company’s interests and be a force for good in this very important arena by attending this webinar.

Washington State will offer paid family and medical leave benefits starting in 2020.

Last fall we hosted a webinar helping educate employers about this new mandated benefit and steps all businesses could take to prepare for employees using Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) starting in 2020. At that time, there were a lot of details of the program that were still being defined.

Now, as we wrap up the year and head into 2020, we are pleased to welcome a speaker from Washington State’s Employment Security Department (ESD) to share the most current details of PFML and answer your questions as we prepare for employees to start using this benefit.

The practical application of that law, understanding downstream consequences and the ability to weigh risks and rewards is what “thinking like an attorney” is all about and a valuable skill in any leader’s toolkit.

In this session, Michelle Bomberger, CEO and Managing Attorney with Equinox Business Law Group, will break down how to think like an attorney when facing complex issues in business, particularly employment related matters.

You will learn:
•What to do when the law is unclear
•How to weigh risk and reward when faced with multiple options, especially when all of your options are bad.
•How to mitigate unintended consequences
•Questions to ask when you do call the attorney and they tell you “it depends…”