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HR Hero Audio Conference on CD and Streaming Audio With each CD purchase, you get FREE access to streaming audio. CD and streaming audio are available 3 days after each live event. Even though the live seminar on this topic has already taken place, you can still hear it! For your convenience, we've recorded it on CD and audio stream, so you can listen when you have time or share it with colleagues in your organization.
Find out what carrots -- and sticks you can use to keep your organization healthy and productive by participating in the all-new audio conference, Making Your Employees Shape Up or Ship Out: How to Legally Control Benefits Costs. From free health screenings to discounted health insurance packages, America's employers are stepping up their efforts to lower benefits costs by getting workers to change their unhealthy lifestyle habits. Some companies have taken more drastic measures, such as banning smoking at work -- and at home. Weyco Inc., a medical benefits administrator based in Okemos, Michigan, recently instituted a policy that bans tobacco use, even during non-work hours, and employees must regularly undergo smoking breath testing or face termination. While this smoking ban doesn't violate Michigan state law, other states prohibit discrimination against employees who use lawful products. And in the Weyco Inc. case, approximately 200 workers quit, rather than face mandatory testing. Can you force your workforce to quit smoking? What about obese employees? Is it legal to require your workers to lose weight? Learn your legal limits for regulating employee health by participating in this HR Hero live event. In just 90 minutes, employment law attorneys experienced in benefits compliance will guide you through emerging efforts to control healthcare spending, including:
The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit. CREDIT INFORMATION: This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org. Because Making Your Employees Shape Up or Ship Out: How to Legally Control Benefits Costs is an audio seminar on CD you enjoy:
How does an Audio Conference on CD and streaming audio work? An HR Hero Audio Conference on CD is a previously-recorded seminar that you listen to on your computer, auto, or home CD player. With each event focusing on one area of employment law, you can quickly catch up on the latest developments in employment law and HR issues, as your schedule permits. Plus, you get access to the seminar material downloads. Quick: Depending on the topic, each HR Hero Audio Conference recording normally ranges from an hour to 90 minutes. Convenient: Listen at your own convenience, print the conference materials, and share the CD with others in your department. You can listen to the audio stream immediately or as often as you like for 30 days. Expert: The HR Hero Audio Conference presenters are nationally known employment attorneys or HR experts. They quickly and concisely explain what you really need to know about the topic. Making Your Employees Shape Up or Ship Out: How to Legally Control Benefits Costs is $227.
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Ashley Gillihan is a partner in Alston & Bird LLP's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups at the firm's office in Atlanta. Mr. Gillihan’s legal practice focuses on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. 
Robert William Edmund is a partner in the Employment Department at Porter Wright Morris LLP, the firm that edits Ohio Employment Law Letter. He regularly defends employers against all forms of discrimination and wrongful discharge lawsuits, agency charges, and arbitrations.
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