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21st Century Workforce Success: Collaboration and Creativity in the Conceptual Age
Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. Thats what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. If Daniel Pink is correct about the 21stcentury workforce, then all those college major that cause parents to grimace (art history? philosophy?) will gain newfound acceptance. U.S. News and World Report . The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of left brain dominance, and the Information Age ...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY:Business Source Premier: EBSCOs Unparalleled Fulltext Business Database
In this 60 minute webinar, MINITEX Reference Services staff will take you through content of Business Source Premier, one of the worlds largest business databases. This comprehensive database offers fulltext for more than 1,150 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business Source Premier contains periodicals ranging from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and American Banker to journals such as Harvard Business Review,...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: LibrariesDomestic Partner Benefits Issues and Implications Webcast
The visibility of samegender marriages and domestic partners is increasing and the effects on employee benefit offerings are in the spotlight. What does all this mean for you and your organizations benefit plans? What is the latest legislation concerning this issue, and what lies ahead for employers and their employee benefit offerings? This webcast will cover: An overview of domestic partners, spouses, and commonlaw spouses Legal background on samegender marriage Update on litigation and legisl...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesGender Discrimination: Breaking the Glass Ceiling Before It Breaks You
Does your organization have a glass ceiling? Does it demonstrate a pattern of failing to promote women to executive positions . even if that pattern is innocent or unintended? If so, your organization right now is in legal danger. Recently WalMart was battered by a massive classaction genderdiscrimination lawsuit. And hundreds of smaller companies are also being sued. Many more are losing top talent because they fail to promote the most qualified employee. Will your organization be next? Liste...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesHiring Without Fear: Seven Keys to LawsuitFree Recruiting
Hiring is fraught with pitfalls. The more you and your companys managers scrutinize job candidates the more increase your risk of lawsuits. Probing questions job applications background, credit and reference checks drug testing and other measures can expose you to legal action. But the worst thing you could do is compromise your recruiting efforts and hire the wrong people. In this conference well show HR executives and managers how to have it both ways maintain your rigorous recruiting standar...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesNonDiscrimination Primer For HR Professionals
There seems to be almost an infinite number of ways in which even the most innocent, wellintentioned remarks, actions, or even inactions can result in disaster. And with todays morass of federal nondiscrimination rules and litigious employees, they often do! This webcast focuses on federal nondiscrimination laws, with an emphasis on how they impact the human resources and benefits function in the workplace. For instance: Is it legal for an employer to refuse to hire a job applicant on the sole b...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesRecord Keeping Requirements under FMLA
The Family Medical Leave Act FMLA is one of the many federal laws employers are struggling to understand and to apply. The FMLA, with its broad definitions of medical conditions and generous leave provisions, can be difficult to administer and burdensome to follow. In addition, it has been increasingly abused by employees. Employers need to know what steps they must take to comply with the law, as well as what preventative steps they can take to reduce employee abuse of the leave provisions. Age...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesSexual Harassment: The New California Law Requiring Harassment Training; What YouAnd Your SupervisorsNeed to Know
Gov. Schwarzenegger recently signed a new law mandating sexual harassment training for California supervisors every two years. Plus, a state law that took effect January 1, 2004, makes employers in California liable for harassment by clients and vendors. Are your managers fully prepared to deal with this threat? Because the risks of multimilliondollar harassment lawsuits are real, weve brought together an expert panel of speakers to get you up to speed on the new law and give you the critical st...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesUpdate on Recent State and Local Actions on SameGender Marriages and their Impact on Employee Benefit Plans
Last spring, Massachusetts legalized samegender marriage and four other states began issuing marriage licenses to samegender couples. In response to the flurry of ensuing samegender marriages, 11 states recently passed state constitutional amendments banning samegender marriages and 39 states have defense of marriage laws providing that the state does not have to recognize samegender marriages performed in other states. Naturally, these conflicting signals can be troubling for employers. Are you...
EVENT TYPE: WebinarsCATEGORY: Human ResourcesOur Partners
