Learn how to create an effective and legally compliant handbook that works best for your company.
Keeping pace with the ever-changing landscape of employment laws presents a perpetual challenge for employers. Employers, especially those with remote workers and those operating in multiple jurisdictions, are facing difficulties in creating compliant handbooks that appropriately address jurisdictional-specific laws and remain user-friendly. Employers must also navigate new, additional challenges posed by recent NLRB decisions that impact how employment policies should be drafted. This presentation will help identify essential handbook provisions and will discuss evolving trends to help employers identify key policies to include in handbooks. It will also discuss strategies to draft a compliant handbook across multiple jurisdictions when local and state laws conflict. Finally, this webinar will discuss those recent NLRB decisions, and how employers can respond.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to define essential handbook provisions.
- You will be able to discuss recent NLRB decisions and their impact on drafting handbooks.
- You will be able to explain the threshold questions you need to answer before even picking up your pen.
- You will be able to recognize different strategies to draft a compliant handbook across multiple jurisdictions.
Agenda
What to Consider Before Getting Started
- Benefits of a Handbook
- The Whos of a Handbook
- Threshold Questions
Key Handbook Policies
- Essential Handbook Provisions
- Policies Most Employers Include
- Trends and Evolving Issues to Consider While Identifying Key Policies
State and Local Law
- Policies Focusing on State and Local Laws
- State and Local Notices
- Achieving Compliance: A Special Look at Conflicting Sick Leave Laws
The NLRB and Handbooks
- The NLRB’s Stericycle Decision
- The NLRB’s Cemex Decision
- Compliance in Light of the Board’s Recent Decisions
Importance of Obtaining Employee Attestations
- Best Practices: Employee Attestations
- Why Employee Attestations Are Necessary
Speakers
Mr Eric I. Emanuelson, Jr.,
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. ,
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Genevieve M. Murphy-Bradacs,
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.- Senior Counsel in the Employment, Labor, & Workforce Management practice in the New York office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
- Provides legal counsel to employers on all aspects of labor and employment-related issues, including employee discipline; accommodation requests; compliance with federal, state, and local leave laws; and employment best practices
- Reviews and prepares employment, consulting and separation agreements, restrictive covenants, and employee handbooks
- Provides advice and counsel regarding Fair Chance laws and other federal, state, and local laws governing the use of background checks for employment purposes
- Conducts anti-harassment and other workplace training
- Served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Francine A. Schott (Ret.) of the New Jersey Superior Court, Civil Division, Essex Vicinage
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for human resource professionals, personnel managers, benefit managers, business owners and managers, payroll professionals, office managers, controllers and attorneys.
