1. FMLA Compliance Boot Camp
2. Create Social Media Policies That Protect Your Organization From Lawsuits
3. Employment Records Compliance Workshop
4. HR Leadership in Action: Your Role in Building A Great Place to Work
5. California Employment Law Update (Las Vegas only)

FMLA Compliance Boot Camp
Managing employee leave continues to confound even today's most seasoned HR practitioner. Despite long-awaited changes enacted by the DOL, medical certification procedures and notice requirements for both employers and employees are problematic. Then, there's the constant headache of intermittent leave. This workshop will help you cut through the confusion. You'll get legally sound strategies to ensure that your existing leave policies comply with FMLA's labyrinth of rules and egs.

• Notifying employees of new leave entitlements, revising your current FMLA policies and procedures
  
• Service members are covered by recent leave rules -- active-duty personnel, Reservists, National Guard troops, and veterans
  
• Red flags that trigger FMLA obligations, even when employees never mention FMLA directly
  
• Granting leave based on a serious health condition and other FMLA-specific terms
  
• The best way to investigate and discipline leave abusers ? without harassment or retaliation
  
• Making confident discipline decisions
  
• Best practices for dealing with employees who request frequent leaves of absence
  
• When you can legally (and safely) deny an intermittent leave request
  
• When you can ask your employees for more detail about why they're taking intermittent leave ? and when you can't
  
• When you can demand a second medical opinion - and who foots the bill
  
• How to transfer employees to different positions or change work schedules to accommodate intermittent leave, without disrupting your workplace or opening yourself up to liability
  
• How to handle return-to-work issues
  

Stacie L. Caraway, Miller & Martin PLLC

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Create Social Media Policies That Protect Your Organization From Lawsuits
Blogs, social networking sites and YouTube may seem like attractive tools for meeting HR objectives, but before you dive in, beware of legal risks. Attend this workshop and learn how to craft and execute a social media policy that limits your organization's liability for harassment and discrimination. Your instructor, Molly DiBianca, will offer practical and legal advice for how you and your employees use social media tools at work.

• 10 steps to take before you start drafting your social-media policy
  
• Determining if you should monitor employee social media activity during and after work hours
  
• Key players to involve in the creation of your policy
  
• Legal risks associated with social media and how to manage them
  
• Workplace policies for using social media to communicate with those outside your organization
  
• Involving employees in the policy drafting process
  
• Non-negotiable social-media use policies
  

Margaret M. DiBianca, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

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Employment Records Compliance Workshop
Many employment lawsuits spring from improper or incomplete documentation practices. That's why it's vital that you employ legally-safe practices when managing your company's employment records, since they can make or break your defense in court or in an agency audit. Attend this workshop to learn both legal requirements and best practices for compiling and sharing vital employee documents, including discipline, hiring, termination and employee evaluation records.

• How to complete employee evaluations, discipline forms, and termination letters to minimize legal risks and defend against future claims
  
• Auditing your job application paperwork for lawsuit triggers
  
• Determine compliance gaps with your current ADA and FMLA documentation
  
• How to motivate reluctant supervisors to complete evaluation and disciplinary action forms
  
• Agency regulators and your documents: How much information can they request? When can you legally deny their request ? and which documents are off limits?
  
• Real-world examples: Review actual company documents and learn how to spot the legal red flags
  
• Workshop Bonus: Get a state-by-state comparison chart with legal guidelines for when records be thrown out, questions that need to be asked before anything is purged, who owns the personnel file, and more
  

Jennifer L. Anderson, Jones Walker (Nashville)
Jason S. Ritchie, Holland & Hart (Las Vegas)

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HR Leadership in Action: Your Role in Building A Great Place to Work
As we begin to recover from one of the worst recessions in a generation, employers are turning their sights to workforce retention, asking "Are we doing all we can to keep top producers?" Attend this dynamic workshop to learn what's working in building the exceptional workplace. "Best Places to Work" expert Hal Adler will inspire you to take the lead in building a work environment that engenders employee loyalty, engagement and innovation, and productivity.

• Key characteristics and attributes of great leaders and workplaces
  
• The difference between good and great practices and how to make the leap
  
• Steps to lead employees to greater engagement in the company's business
  
• Real-world strategies that HR can use to earn employee respect, commitment and loyalty
  
• Retention best practices from employers of choice and how it gives these top-tier companies a competitive edge
  
• Leadership skills of great leaders that overcome employee productivity challenges
  
• Practical, down to earth strategies for cultivating trust between you and your workforce
  
• How HR leaders can communicate more powerfully to inspire performance, explain business goals and share bad news
  

Hal Adler, Leadership Landing

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California Employment Law Update (Las Vegas only)
"It's like doing business in a different country" is the refrain from California employers. With state employment laws constantly changing, it's easy to fall out of compliance. Get the most comprehensive update on new rules and different realities of the Golden State's employment laws from the editors of California Employment Law Letter. You'll leave with legally sound guidance for dealing with California-specific laws and regulations.

• Employment laws in California that differ strikingly from those in other states
  
• Protected employee categories not covered by federal law
  
• How to navigate the California's unique meal and rest break maze
  
• California's sexual harassment training requirements
  
• How California defines the difference between harassment and discrimination
  
• California's new alternative workweek law that allows employees to change schedules
  
• Recent changes to California's workers' comp law
  
• Rules that require you to offer sick leave to workers who care for family members
  
• The implications of the state's new e-discovery laws on employers
  
• How California's new law that recognizes same-sex marriages could impact health care plans and other benefits.
  

Mark I. Schickman, Freeland Cooper & Foreman LLP
Cathleen S. Yonahara, Freeland Cooper & Foreman LLP