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HR MAGAZINE
Health Care Reform Now: First Things First
HR professionals say they are swamped by the details and explanations of the new health care law and are focusing their attention on the provisions that take effect this year and next. A key challenge is how to comply with the law’s mandates without shifting costs in such a way that the plan could lose its grandfathered status.
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Related article: Health Care Reform in the Future: What’s to Come?
Webcast: Health Care Reform and 2011 Annual Enrollment
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HR DISCIPLINES: BENEFITS
Consumer-Directed Plan Growth Continued in 2010
Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) in the U.S. continued to grow in 2010, albeit at a slower rate than in 2009. One reason: Employers were uncertain whether health care reform would restrict consumer-directed plans.
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Diversity discipline area
HR DISCIPLINES: COMPENSATION
Conduct a Pay Equity Study to Mitigate Litigation Risks
What can a prudent company do to manage the risk of pay equity litigation? Pay equity studies are an increasingly common answer, as they help a company understand its pay structure and reduce its potential liability.
Read this article
Benefits discipline area
HR DISCIPLINES: STAFFNIG MANAGEMENT
Skilled Trade Shortages Call for Immigration Policy Reforms
Businesses, governments and trade associations should be developing long-term strategies to alleviate talent shortages among skilled trades or economic growth around the world will suffer, according to a new report.
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Global HR discipline area
HR DISCIPLINES: TECHNOLOGY
In Age of Social Media, Job Boards Are Far from Dead
Experts who help companies with online recruiting say job boards are far from becoming obsolete. Many are thriving, even in a tight economy, because they have been willing and able to adapt to their customers' needs.
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Staffing Management discipline area
HR DISCIPLINES: DIVERSITY
Community Healing: Tales of Troubled Cities
Racial and ethnic tensions can drive a corporation out of a city, even at the expense of sizable investments and a long history. Instead of walking away, however, some organizations have decided to take action and, by working to heal their communities, have relieved some of their workplace problems.
Read this article
Diversity discipline area
HR DISCIPLINES: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
What to Do When an Employee Departs Suddenly
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater took the phrase “take this job and shove it” to a new level when he exited an Aug. 9, 2010, flight—beer in hand—via an emergency slide he had deployed following an altercation with a passenger. Though Slater’s style made him an instant Internet sensation, HR experts said sudden departures are not uncommon and should trigger a series of immediate steps.
Read this article
Empoyee Relations discipline area
SHRM PUBLIC POLICY WEBCAST
Health Care Reform and 2011 Annual Enrollment
Sept. 22, 2-3:30 p.m. ET
Presenters: E. Crumlish, FSA, MAAA, and Joann Hall Swenson, Hewitt Associates
Nine months after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the immediate impact for employers is becoming clear. Recently enacted or announced regulations provide details for employers on self-insured plans; plan grandfathering; providing facilities for nursing mothers; and coverage of plan participants' adult children. In other cases, although formal regulations have not been promulgated, policymakers have signaled the direction the rules will take. This program will clearly spell out the regulations that are now in place and their impact for your organization. It will also discuss the trends seen in recent regulations as well as when employers can expect to see additional regulations to clarify outstanding issues. Just as importantly, the program will provide you with guidelines for communicating these new rules to both leaders and rank-and-file employees in your organization, just in time for open-enrollment in 2010.
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FREE SHRM MEMBER WEBCASTS
Strengths-Driven Performance
Sept. 21, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Marcus Buckingham
Webcast sponsor: Ceridian
During Marcus Buckingham's 17 years with the Gallup Organization, he helped to guide ground-breaking research on the world's best leaders, managers and workplaces. This research forms the foundation of an approach he calls "strengths-driven performance." In this webcast, Buckingham (one of SHRM's most popular speakers) will review key data from a number of different industries demonstrating the correlation between performance and engagement. He'll explore the factors at play with engaged teams vs. disengaged teams and the extent to which employees have the opportunity to play to their strengths. And he'll provide innovative strategies to support people in leveraging the best of themselves and others in the workplace.
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HR Innovation: Take the Lead!
Sept. 23, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Janice Presser, Ph.D.
This is an era of unprecedented change, and change demands responsiveness, resiliency and innovation. Executive leadership expects HR to adapt to the new reality, plan effectively and build the workforce of the future. If there ever was a time to "do more with less," it is now. In the end, HR's value comes from innovations that improve the way people work together, raise retention and engagement, facilitate teamwork, and encourage constructive leadership. In this program, Janice Presser, Ph.D., discusses how HR can become a driver of innovation -- and measurable business value -- by rising above the transactional metrics of "talent management" and using the strategic metrics of human infrastructure.
Register for this webcast
HR's Role in Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Violence
Oct. 7, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Dana Picore, Ph.D.
Webcast sponsor: New Media Learning
Acts of violence in the workplace occur with alarming frequency. Though HR policies and practices can't erase the threat of violence, they can help identify warning signs and offer solutions to head off attacks. In this program, Dr. Dana Picore, a well-known threat assessment expert and workplace violence prevention consultant, discusses how HR can educate workers to identify precursors to violence, recognize threats and defuse potentially dangerous situations. The program will also describe steps a company should take if violence does occur.
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Sources of Hire: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Now available
Presenter: Gerry Crispin
Webcast sponsor: SmartPost, a Bernard Hodes Group Product
With the recruiting market beginning to reawaken, but with recruiting budgets remaining tight, employers must now put the data they've been gathering to work. In this presentation, self-described lifelong student of recruiting Gerry Crispin looks at the staffing supply chain and examines how to improve your data gathering to get more bang for your buck. He'll draw on his own and others' industry research to show how the most competitive employers around the country are doing it.
View this webcast
SHRM MEMBER WEBCAST
Make the Most of Your SHRM Membership
Sept. 15, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Pamela Green, SPHR
Want to quickly learn about all of SHRM's benefits to make sure you are getting the most of your membership? Sign up to join a webcast with SHRM's Chief U.S. Membership Officer Pamela J. Green, SPHR.
More about this program
HR COURSES FROM SHRM E-LEARNING
Compensation Basics
Presenter: Sharon K. Koss, SPHR, CCP
This session offers a basic overview of compensation in the HR function. Topics covered include fundamentals of base pay, job analysis, job evaluation, market analysis, salary ranges, legal defensibility, incentives, pay for performance, merit pay, performance management, salary surveys and total compensation.
More about this course
Strategic Benefits Through Employee Involvement
Presenters: Kevin Bang, RHU and Kate M. Kelly, CEBS
Employers tend to view wellness and consumerism as solutions to the cost problem where as employees tend to view them as buzzwords for cost shifting. A committee of employees, with the appropriate tools and skilled facilitation, can create an employee environment of ownership, appreciation and shared responsibility for the benefits program at your company. This course will provide tools to shift from an old benefits paradigm to the new paradigm resulting in employees understanding that we’re all in this together.
More about this course
LEGAL REPORT
Legal Ramifications of Personal Guarantees
Small-business owners and their employees sometimes carelessly endorse business documents without fully considering the possible ramifications of that action.
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More Legal Report articles
STAFFING MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE
‘Corporate Conviviality’
At the more than 170 offices of Umpqua Bank scattered from Seattle to Sacramento, the workday begins with a group activity. It might be the reading of an inspirational story or poem, but it might also be a five-minute hula contest or a session of salsa dancing. These "motivational moments," as the company calls them, are chosen by individual employees, often on the spur of the moment, and work to build a sense of camaraderie.
Read this article
HR MAGAZINE
Health Care Reform Now: First Things First
HR professionals say they are swamped by the details and explanations of the new health care law and are focusing their attention on the provisions that take effect this year and next. A key challenge is how to comply with the law’s mandates without shifting costs in such a way that the plan could lose its grandfathered status.
HR DISCIPLINES: BENEFITS
Consumer-Directed Plan Growth Continued in 2010
Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) in the U.S. continued to grow in 2010, albeit at a slower rate than in 2009. One reason: Employers were uncertain whether health care reform would restrict consumer-directed plans.
HR DISCIPLINES: COMPENSATION
Conduct a Pay Equity Study to Mitigate Litigation Risks
What can a prudent company do to manage the risk of pay equity litigation? Pay equity studies are an increasingly common answer, as they help a company understand its pay structure and reduce its potential liability.
HR DISCIPLINES: STAFFNIG MANAGEMENT
Skilled Trade Shortages Call for Immigration Policy Reforms
Businesses, governments and trade associations should be developing long-term strategies to alleviate talent shortages among skilled trades or economic growth around the world will suffer, according to a new report.
HR DISCIPLINES: TECHNOLOGY
In Age of Social Media, Job Boards Are Far from Dead
Experts who help companies with online recruiting say job boards are far from becoming obsolete. Many are thriving, even in a tight economy, because they have been willing and able to adapt to their customers' needs.
HR DISCIPLINES: DIVERSITY
Community Healing: Tales of Troubled Cities
Racial and ethnic tensions can drive a corporation out of a city, even at the expense of sizable investments and a long history. Instead of walking away, however, some organizations have decided to take action and, by working to heal their communities, have relieved some of their workplace problems.
HR DISCIPLINES: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
What to Do When an Employee Departs Suddenly
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater took the phrase “take this job and shove it” to a new level when he exited an Aug. 9, 2010, flight—beer in hand—via an emergency slide he had deployed following an altercation with a passenger. Though Slater’s style made him an instant Internet sensation, HR experts said sudden departures are not uncommon and should trigger a series of immediate steps.
SHRM PUBLIC POLICY WEBCAST
Health Care Reform and 2011 Annual Enrollment
Sept. 22, 2-3:30 p.m. ET
Presenters: E. Crumlish, FSA, MAAA, and Joann Hall Swenson, Hewitt Associates
Nine months after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the immediate impact for employers is becoming clear. Recently enacted or announced regulations provide details for employers on self-insured plans; plan grandfathering; providing facilities for nursing mothers; and coverage of plan participants' adult children. In other cases, although formal regulations have not been promulgated, policymakers have signaled the direction the rules will take. This program will clearly spell out the regulations that are now in place and their impact for your organization. It will also discuss the trends seen in recent regulations as well as when employers can expect to see additional regulations to clarify outstanding issues. Just as importantly, the program will provide you with guidelines for communicating these new rules to both leaders and rank-and-file employees in your organization, just in time for open-enrollment in 2010.
FREE SHRM MEMBER WEBCASTS
Strengths-Driven Performance
Sept. 21, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Marcus Buckingham
Webcast sponsor: Ceridian
During Marcus Buckingham's 17 years with the Gallup Organization, he helped to guide ground-breaking research on the world's best leaders, managers and workplaces. This research forms the foundation of an approach he calls "strengths-driven performance." In this webcast, Buckingham (one of SHRM's most popular speakers) will review key data from a number of different industries demonstrating the correlation between performance and engagement. He'll explore the factors at play with engaged teams vs. disengaged teams and the extent to which employees have the opportunity to play to their strengths. And he'll provide innovative strategies to support people in leveraging the best of themselves and others in the workplace.
HR Innovation: Take the Lead!
Sept. 23, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Janice Presser, Ph.D.
This is an era of unprecedented change, and change demands responsiveness, resiliency and innovation. Executive leadership expects HR to adapt to the new reality, plan effectively and build the workforce of the future. If there ever was a time to "do more with less," it is now. In the end, HR's value comes from innovations that improve the way people work together, raise retention and engagement, facilitate teamwork, and encourage constructive leadership. In this program, Janice Presser, Ph.D., discusses how HR can become a driver of innovation -- and measurable business value -- by rising above the transactional metrics of "talent management" and using the strategic metrics of human infrastructure.
HR's Role in Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Violence
Oct. 7, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Dana Picore, Ph.D.
Webcast sponsor: New Media Learning
Acts of violence in the workplace occur with alarming frequency. Though HR policies and practices can't erase the threat of violence, they can help identify warning signs and offer solutions to head off attacks. In this program, Dr. Dana Picore, a well-known threat assessment expert and workplace violence prevention consultant, discusses how HR can educate workers to identify precursors to violence, recognize threats and defuse potentially dangerous situations. The program will also describe steps a company should take if violence does occur.
Sources of Hire: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Now available
Presenter: Gerry Crispin
Webcast sponsor: SmartPost, a Bernard Hodes Group Product
With the recruiting market beginning to reawaken, but with recruiting budgets remaining tight, employers must now put the data they've been gathering to work. In this presentation, self-described lifelong student of recruiting Gerry Crispin looks at the staffing supply chain and examines how to improve your data gathering to get more bang for your buck. He'll draw on his own and others' industry research to show how the most competitive employers around the country are doing it.
SHRM MEMBER WEBCAST
Make the Most of Your SHRM Membership
Sept. 15, 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Pamela Green, SPHR
Want to quickly learn about all of SHRM's benefits to make sure you are getting the most of your membership? Sign up to join a webcast with SHRM's Chief U.S. Membership Officer Pamela J. Green, SPHR.
HR COURSES FROM SHRM E-LEARNING
Compensation Basics
Presenter: Sharon K. Koss, SPHR, CCP
This session offers a basic overview of compensation in the HR function. Topics covered include fundamentals of base pay, job analysis, job evaluation, market analysis, salary ranges, legal defensibility, incentives, pay for performance, merit pay, performance management, salary surveys and total compensation.
Strategic Benefits Through Employee Involvement
Presenters: Kevin Bang, RHU and Kate M. Kelly, CEBS
Employers tend to view wellness and consumerism as solutions to the cost problem where as employees tend to view them as buzzwords for cost shifting. A committee of employees, with the appropriate tools and skilled facilitation, can create an employee environment of ownership, appreciation and shared responsibility for the benefits program at your company. This course will provide tools to shift from an old benefits paradigm to the new paradigm resulting in employees understanding that we’re all in this together.
LEGAL REPORT
Legal Ramifications of Personal Guarantees
Small-business owners and their employees sometimes carelessly endorse business documents without fully considering the possible ramifications of that action.
STAFFING MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE
‘Corporate Conviviality’
At the more than 170 offices of Umpqua Bank scattered from Seattle to Sacramento, the workday begins with a group activity. It might be the reading of an inspirational story or poem, but it might also be a five-minute hula contest or a session of salsa dancing. These "motivational moments," as the company calls them, are chosen by individual employees, often on the spur of the moment, and work to build a sense of camaraderie.