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• Wage & Hour Law

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DIVERSITY - NEW!
WITH AN EVER MORE DIVERSE APPLICANT POOL, SUPERVISORS MUST EMBRACE DIFFERENCES

Diversity is essential to any successful operation. Teach your supervisors how to guide a group filled with differing backgrounds, perspectives, and opinions and help them understand what is diversity, why it’s so important, and how to accommodate cultural differences on the team. They’ll also lean about the legal issues that can arise in a diverse workforce involving Title VII, ADEA, disparate treatment, disparate impact, ADA, ENDA, and other laws.

MILITARY LEAVE - NEW!
NEW LAWS PROTECT SERVICE MEMBERS IN THE WORKPLACE

Make sure your supervisors know how to manage employees leaving and returning from military service with this helpful guide to reinstatement rights, retraining and re-engaging the employee, USERRA, new FMLA provisions for family members, and dealing with injured or disabled veterans. They’ll learn how to avoid the common mistakes that land employers in legal trouble and create PR nightmares.

UNION AVOIDANCE - NEW!
RENEWED POWER AND INFLUENCE MEANS IT'S HARDER THAN EVER TO STAY UNION FREE

Make sure your managers know what to do if a union-organizing campaign comes to your workplace. What can and can’t they say or do to counter a union campaign? How can their choice of management style affect the outcome? They’ll learn about the National Labor Relations Act, what are protected concerted activities and unfair labor practices, and the warning signs that a campaign is imminent.

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BECOMING A SUPERVISOR
WHAT TO KNOW NOW THAT YOU'RE IN CHARGE

Whether she's a new hire or recently promoted, your new supervisor can use all the help she can get to get off on the right foot. Arm your new managers with the skills they need to lead your team to productivity. Basic Training for Supervisors: Becoming a Supervisor will give them the key legal principles necessary for every day management, from how to avoid discrimination, retaliation, and harassment suits to the fundamentals of protected employee leave. Your supervisors will quickly learn how to avoid killer overtime and breaktime mistakes plaguing other new leaders.

DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
DON'T CRINGE, CONFRONT!

No supervisor is excited about confronting a problem worker. Help your managers overcome this difficult task with tact and confidence. Basic Training for Supervisors: Difficult Conversations offers a 6-step checklist for what managers must do before initiating the conversation -- plus 6 actions they must avoid in order to prevent placing your organization at legal risk.

DISCIPLINE
IN DEFENSE OF DISCIPLINE

Done right, discipline helps to guide, grow and enhance an employee’s
behavior and job performance. Discipline is NOT the same as punishment, but it does address an employee’s problem areas so supervisors have a tendency to avoid the entire subject. Basic Training for Supervisors: Discipline emphasizes the importance of imposing timely and appropriate disciplinary procedures; gives tips for making the process easier and more effective; and offers some protection from potential future legal troubles.

DISCRIMINATION
IT’S ALL IN HOW THE DECISION IS MADE

Anyone can harass, but only supervisors can discriminate. Therefore, they need to stay especially vigilant to make sure they don’t base their actions on gender, race, color, religion, national origin, disability or age. Basic Training for Supervisors: Discrimination provides guidance and not only warns managers against overt discrimination, but also helps to uncover and correct problems of a subtle, subconscious or misguided nature.

DOCUMENTATION AND EVALUATIONS
IF IT’S NOT ON PAPER, IT NEVER HAPPENED

In a battle of he said/she said, the better documentation often determines the winner. While time consuming to create, an accurate paper trail provides valuable defense against litigious action and helps to effectively deal with poorly performing employees. Basic Training for Supervisors: Documentation and Evaluations provides guidelines for what to write down and how to present it. It details the importance of the evaluation process and reminds managers of the necessity for thorough, accurate and timely assessments. The bottom line for this booklet is if it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen.

ELECTRONIC ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE
KEEPING CONTROL OF THE TECHNOLOGY BEAST

Today's high-tech tools can enhance your workforce's performance. But in the wrong hands, technology can place your company at tremendous legal risk. Basic Training for Supervisors: Electronic Issues in the Workplace will help your supervisors counter the risks that arise from Internet porn, rampant blogging, viruses, release of confidential information, and much more -- without violating employee privacy rights.

EMPLOYEE HEALTH
TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF EMPLOYEE HEALTH

Supervisors go into triage mode whenever an employee requests leave under FMLA. They have to inform HR of the qualifying conditions and then determine how to handle manpower shortages within their departments. If an employee requests special accommodations under the ADA, HR oversees, but managers take responsibility for the actual implementation of any special accommodations. The confusing wilderness of dos and don’ts can have costly consequences if supervisors handle situations badly. Basic Training for Supervisors: Employee Health provides a 20-page compass that guides managers through the thorny issues related to FMLA, ADA and employee confidentiality.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO...

Sure, your supervisors and managers have heard of employee rights, but do they know what they are? Can they give you a list or briefly describe the entitlements of those they manage? Basic Training for Supervisors: Employee Rights gives a quick overview of this employee Bill of Rights and outlines a supervisor’s obligations. Arming managers with this information will keep them from either violating an employee’s rights or honoring demands for rights that don‘t exist.

FIRING
WHEN IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

Supervisors can do more to create or reduce the risk of a lawsuit at the time of an employee’s termination than at any other point in the employment relationship. Within its short 20-pages, Basic Training for Supervisors: Firing reminds managers to avoid basing decisions on factors such as race, gender or age or the fact that the employee may have exercised one of his legal rights. Supervisors must avoid even the appearance of an improper motive at times like these, and Basic Training for Supervisors: Firing helps your managers back a firing decision with careful documentation, company procedure and diplomacy.

HIRING
FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON THE RIGHT WAY

Unwary supervisors easily can end up in a legal quagmire just by asking the wrong question during the interview process. Do your supervisors know what to ask to find the best person for the job without making rejected applicants claim discrimination? Basic Training for Supervisors: Hiring delivers a quick but thorough review of hiring legalities and marks the territories to avoid when screening potential employees.

NEW HIRES
WELCOME ABOARD, NOW WHAT?

What's the secret to keeping your new hires past the first 90 days? Making a great first impression! Your supervisors will wow your new talent with Basic Training for Supervisors: New Hires. They'll get step-by-step instructions for your new hire's first day, including tips for managing all the necessary paperwork and hands-on advice for effective performance evaluations. Your managers will learn how to keep new workers fully engaged from the get-go.

OTHER HARASSMENT
SOME THINGS JUST SHOULDN’T BE SAID

While sexual harassment gets most of the publicity, supervisors must continually guard against harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability or age. And, determining the appropriateness of various circumstances can seem like walking through a minefield. With so many potentially hurtful situations, managers need Basic Training for Supervisors: Other Harassment. It presents plausible solutions and provides supervisors with the know-how to take a proactive approach in the creation of a high functioning diversified workplace.

SAFETY AND WORKERS’ COMP
PROTECT YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Unless they regularly work in hazardous conditions, supervisors probably haven’t paid much attention to issues of safety and workers’ comp. But carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive motion disorders have brought safety to the forefront of every workplace environment. Since companies expect managers to protect their most valuable asset - their employees - supervisors need to know how to identify, report and correct unsafe conditions. Basic Training for Supervisors: Safety and Workers’ Comp quickly takes a supervisor through an office - pointing out potential hazards and suggesting corrective actions. It provides guidance in case of an accident - from getting injured workers to medical attention to transitioning them back into the workplace following recovery.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT
NO JOKING MATTER

Managers groan at the topic of sexual harassment. Most think they know all there is to know, but every boss needs to realize that if harassment occurs, courts might automatically hold the company liable. Basic Training for Supervisors: Sexual Harassment provides a common sense approach to dealing with this sensitive issue and its lesser-known counterparts like same-sex harassment, genderbased hostility and stereotyping, harassment of homosexuals or harassment by a customer.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
STAMPING OUT THIS PRODUCTIVITY KILLER

Ignoring substance abuse can cost your organization's bottom line. Show your supervisors how to spot and address this productivity killer with Basic Training for Supervisors: Substance Abuse. Your leaders will learn how to keep substance abuse from increasing absenteeism, theft, injuries, conflict, and even violence. This easy-to-follow booklet offers critical guidance for before, during, and after the confrontation, as well as policy and investigation essentials, warning signs, testing, and treatment options.

WAGE AND HOUR LAW
AN HONEST DAY’S PAY FOR AN HONEST DAY’S WORK

Wage and hour violations are resulting in greater and greater penalties, awards, and fines. Although supervisors don’t need to learn the entire labyrinth of the FLSA, they do need to know enough to spot problems on their watch. Basic Training for Supervisors: Wage and Hour Law helps managers troubleshoot payroll issues and provides real-world explanations of working off the clock, taking work home, and putting on equipment before clocking in. This easy-reading informative booklet also benefits managers who supervise exempt employees, helping them spot a different set of red flags - like employees who don’t work 40 hours or who run out of leave. Armed with the tips and techniques in Basic Training for Supervisors: Wage and Hour Law, your supervisors can recognize violations and alert HR or the payroll department.

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN

Employees generally feel safe going to work. Yet, violence can and does erupt. Basic Training for Supervisors: Workplace Violence provides managers with a list of simple steps to reduce risk and workplace vulnerability. It looks at common triggers and warning signs of employee violence and offers suggestions about when and how to step in to diffuse a situation.