HR Topics: Top Ten HR Mistakes; Dealing with TWC; Recipe for a Better Employee Handbook; Investigating Sensitive Employee Complaints; plus Latest Developments in Employment Retaliation

Session 1: Top Ten HR Mistakes—This session explores at least ten real-life mistakes made by human resources that you don't want to make! The session also provides methods for protecting your business by recognizing and rectifying these mistakes before they become serious problems or result in litigation.

Session 2: Dealing with TWC: Independent Contractors, Tax Audits and the Texas Payday Law—This session focuses on TWC's criteria for determining workers' employment status, how to handle unemployment tax audits, avoidance of common problems with tax rates and business acquisition issues, and how to fully comply with the Texas Payday Law when paying employees.

Session 3: Handbook Helper: Recipe for a Better Handbook—Employee handbooks can be an employer's best friend or worst nightmare. When prepared correctly and applied uniformly, a handbook can prevent a host of workplace problems and provide a defense against certain employee claims. Much like an extraordinary meal, a great handbook requires thought, planning, the right ingredients, skillful preparation and proper presentation. This session summarizes aspects of the changing legal compliance environment and provides practical tips for creating a new handbook or updating an existing one.

Session 4: Investigating Sensitive Employee Complaints—The investigation of an employee's complaint may be critical to an employer as its only means of avoiding liability. The investigator may be a witness and the notes may be evidence. Obtain practical tips for investigating and documenting the process.

Session 5: I Didn't Know You Couldn't Do That—The latest developments in the law of unlawful employment retaliation, focusing upon recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Includes: Audio Paper Slides