Management Programs

Human resource practitioners must know about many federal, state, and local laws in order to effectively perform their responsibilities within their organizations. This workshop provides an overview of the legal issues associated with day-to-day employment-related decisions and actions, including:

• Legal implications of decisions affecting employees
• How to spot legal problems and prevent them
• Internal resources: when and how to involve them
• Relevant laws, applicable to daily operations and special situations, addressed in laypersons' terms and provided in writing for reference

Key Topics

• Understanding the legal framework
• The relationship between laws and court cases
• The implications of laws on employment agreements and policies
• Comparison of relevant federal, state, and local laws
• The basics of key employment laws
• Making nondiscriminatory employment decisions
• Compliance with wage-and-hour laws
• Safety and health rights and responsibilities
• Required versus discretionary leaves of absence
• Managing employees covered by labor agreements
• Individual rights and wrongful discharge
• Special legal situations
• Sexual and other types of harassment
• Disability and religious accommodations
• Understanding and avoiding retaliation

Who Will Benefit

First- or second-level HR managers or nonmanagement professionals who wish to obtain an overview of HR laws; typical attendees are fairly new to HR or have been limited to a narrow area of HR

Instructors

Susan W. Brecher, Shelley M. Greenwald, Barbara B. Kalish

This course is also available as part of Cornell's Blended Learning solutions.