| Available Webinars/Audio Conferences |
DOL Rules On Overtime
Although the rules on exempt vs non-exempt employees has changed a few times in the past 10 years, overtime worked is, and has always been, overtime earned. |
Form I-9 Requirements
This webinar reviews the changes to the I-9 in detail, and provides guidance on how employers can deal with the changes. |
#MeToo For HR
Topics range from the scope of behaviors that cause discomfort in the workplace, to why victims don’t report harassment, to the role of leadership in creating a culture of inclusion. |
#MeToo For HR
Topics range from the scope of behaviors that cause discomfort in the workplace, to why victims don’t report harassment, to the role of leadership in creating a culture of inclusion. |
2023 IRS Forms W2 And W3 – Recent Changes, Which Payments Go In What Boxes, Deadlines, Do’s And Don’ts For Employers, And Much More.
The IRS requires employers to report wage and salary information for employees on Form W-2. Your W-2 also reports the amount of federal, state and other taxes withheld from your paycheck. As an employee, the information on your W-2 is extremely important when preparing your tax return. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? |
2023 IRS Forms W2 And W3 – Recent Changes, Which Payments Go In What Boxes, Deadlines, Do’s And Don’ts For Employers, And Much More.
The IRS requires employers to report wage and salary information for employees on Form W-2. Your W-2 also reports the amount of federal, state and other taxes withheld from your paycheck. As an employee, the information on your W-2 is extremely important when preparing your tax return. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? |
2023 IRS Forms W2 And W3 – Recent Changes, Which Payments Go In What Boxes, Deadlines, Do’s And Don’ts For Employers, And Much More.
The IRS requires employers to report wage and salary information for employees on Form W-2. Your W-2 also reports the amount of federal, state and other taxes withheld from your paycheck. As an employee, the information on your W-2 is extremely important when preparing your tax return. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? |
ADA-Proof Job Descriptions: What HR Gets Wrong - And How to Fix It Dates through 12/10/2026
In this informative audio conference we will provide you with a very practical, step-by-step approach to creating effective job descriptions. |
aPHR Certification Prep Class
Our instructor-led certification prep course is designed to prepare you to earn your aPHR certification credential. |
Are Your I-9s Audit Ready? What HR Needs To Know Dates through 10/15/2026 |
Best Practices For Payroll Policies And Procedures
Every payroll professional knows that they must ensure that all employees are paid accurately, that contracts and wage and hour laws are adhered to, and that each paycheck is taxed properly. |
Breaking Into HR: What Every Beginner Needs To Know Dates through 11/23/2026
To help those either new to HR or working in HR with little training, we've developed this 90-minute training session where you can learn HR basics from an HR professional with nearly 25 years in leadership and HR management. |
Changing The Perception Of The HR Department
In this informative audio conference, you’ll learn the root causes that contribute to HR’s poor reputation, how to improve it, and steps you need to take to improve Ops "HR-IQ". |
Compliance Tips For Gifts, Awards, & Other Fringe Benefits
This webinar will help you to determine if your fringe benefits are currently being offered to employees correctly. That is, to ensure that they are compliant with federal and state payroll tax regulations that may assist you in avoiding a costly audit in the future. |
Conflict Resolution – How To Deal With Difficult People
This audio conference will teach you and your managers how to have difficult, even uncomfortable, conversations with employees.
It teaches you and your managers how to identify the root of the problem employee's behavior and decide what to do to correct it. |
Coping Tools For Managing Multiple Priorities And Projects
Learn how to handle the situations that cause the most frustration in today's norm of a short-staffed, overworked, multiple-priorities workplace! |
Cybersecurity And How To Keep The Payroll Processing Going During An Outage
This training session gives you the tools to develop a solid disaster recovery plan. By attending this training session, you will learn best practices and tips, such as where to begin and how to keep the plan up to date. |
Details And Best Practices For Calculating Payroll Deductions
This webinar educates and updates payroll professionals on the types of deductions that employers take from an employee’s paychecks. |
Electronic Cigarettes And “No Hire Smoker” Policies
The FDA has recently announced that it will be issuing new regulations on electronic cigarettes. |
Employee Handbooks: 2024 Update On Policy And Procedures
This audio conference reviews current employee handbook policies and discusses how organizations can reduce the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation. |
Expense Reimbursements - Proper Recordkeeping And Accounting For Payroll Compliance
In order for expense reimbursements to be non-taxable, they must be distributed and recorded under an “accountable plan.” You will discover what that means, and how to evaluate your expense reimbursement policy for compliance. |
Final Pay rules
Paying an ex-employee involves not just distributing the ex-employee's final paycheck, but knowing how to properly handle and tax any severance or other benefits due, then integrating these payments with compliance regulations under COBRA or the Stimulus Act. By attending, you also will learn how to handle more-advanced issues such as requirements for death payments, legal settlements, and stock options. |
Fringe Benefit Taxation
Being both knowledgeable and choosy about which benefits you provide will go a long way in keeping workers motivated without breaking either your company’s or the workers’ budgets |
From Hire To Retire: The HR Guide To Defensible Documentation Dates through 11/30/2026
Attend this training session to learn the best practices for documentation to help you more effectively manage employee performance and minimize legal risks. |
Garnishments, Child Support Orders, And Other Levies
This training session gives you tools to better understand the responsibilities that a company has regarding garnishments, Child Support orders, and levies under state and federal guidelines such as Consumer Credit Protection Act, IRS levy requirements, and state-specific levy and garnishment withholding requirements. |
High Impact Excel: Dashboard Edition
The flow of information crossing your desk, as well as your clients, accelerates seemingly daily. One way to stem the tide is by way of Excel-based dashboards, which can aggregate content from numerous sources into a compact resource that allows users to assimilate mass amounts of information at once, but also quickly drill down into the details when needed. |
How To Conduct Employee Relations Investigations Dates through 11/19/2026
Most HR professionals have never had formal training in how to conduct investigations; yet, when the time comes to handle an employee issue…who do they call?? HR. Act now to learn the basics of how to gather a statement of complaint, identify witnesses, gather evidence, and conduct witness interviews that get to the truth. |
How To Do A Payroll Audit - Former Auditor's Expert Advice
Learn how to audit your payroll department to not only catch potential mistakes – however inadvertent – but also save your organization some fines or penalties. |
How To Identify And Eliminate Workers' Comp Misrepresentation Dates through 10/27/2026
Sometimes the tell-tale signs of a fraudulent claim are apparent right away; other times they don't develop until the claim is already in progress, but either way, you need to know what to do to protect your organization. |
How To Keep HR From Being The Employee Complaint Department Dates through 11/12/2026
In this informative audio conference, learn how to spot the “Bermuda Triangle”, how to avoid getting lost in it, and how to establish boundaries in HR to stop handling issues that HR doesn’t own. |
How To Minimize And Eliminate Payroll Penalties
In this audio conference, we will arm you with all you need to know in order to submit a penalty waiver request and hopefully enable you to receive the waiver. |
How To Pay In An Employee Market
How To Pay In An Employee Market |
How to Prevent Payroll Fraud
This webinar provides the tools to reduce the chances of payroll fraud occurring at your organization, including legal rules, best practices, and tools for detecting and deferring payroll fraud. |
How To Properly Complete The 941 Form
This webinar provides tips for you to better understand and complete the Form 941. |
How To Successfully Hire, Manage, And Engage Your Remote Workforce
In this important audio conference, learn how to hire people who are self-starters, strong communicators and team-oriented. You will also learn how to quickly engage your employees beginning with the on-boarding process and maintain continuous communication through multiple channels. |
HR Auditing - Important Issues For 2022
How effective is your organization's human resource management? This session discusses the development and use of HR Audits in answering these questions and addressing critical risk management and due diligence issues. |
HR Investigations 101: The Basics For How To Conduct Workplace Investigations Dates through 12/17/2026
The way to minimize risks, and the costs associated with mishandling an employee's allegations, is in having a basic understanding of what an investigation is - and how to conduct one - so register today! |
IRS Rules For Work Visas
Would you know what to do if your organization just hired a new associate with an H1B visa?
Don't put your company at risk; join us for this interactive program and make sure your payroll procedures are compliant! |
Keeping Workers' Comp Injuries From Becoming Permanent Vacations
The statistics are astounding regarding the correlation between minimal lost work time vs. an employee's full return to work or even returning to work at all. |
Legal Issues From Having A Mobile Workforce
The use of personal digital devices, cell phones, laptop computers, etc. has literally changed the entire scope of our work environment. Join us and learn how can you minimize the risks yet still take advantage of the use of these devices. |
Low Voltage For Qualified Persons
This webinar will provide the basic building blocks you will need to develop & maintain your company’s electrical safety program. |
Managing The Confusing Tangle Of The FMLA, ADA, And Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Better understand your organization's compliance requirements with the overlap of the FMLA, ADA, And Pregnancy Discrimination Act, get tips for managing such requirements, and avoiding legal complications from irate employees |
Medical Marijuana In The Workplace: A Guide For HR
With the many new state laws being passed legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, HR Professionals can be overwhelmed when applying their drug-free workplace policies and employees who may fail a drug screen due to medical marijuana. |
Multi-State Payroll Tax Compliance
Many states have become aggressive when enforcing their non-resident state income tax withholding rules, and state payroll tax auditors are now questioning whether or not you have workers "performing services" in their state. By attending this audio conference you will learn taxation and reporting requirements for all states where your organization has employees working - or in some cases - living. |
One Person, Many Hats: Thriving as an HR Department of One Dates through 11/23/2026
A one-person HR shop is all things to all employees and managers, so they need to know a lot about a lot and they also need to know when to stop and seek advice. This audio conference will assist the one person HR department in making a plan to prioritize the operational, compliance, and people needs of the business. |
Payroll Forms Update
This webinar reviews and covers the changes to Forms 941, 940, and the W-2 for 2024. |
Payroll Paycards: How To Save Costs and Maintain Compliance
This audio conference covers the why's, how's, and legal issues regarding Paycards. For instance, the majority of state’s labor laws allow employers to offer direct deposit, but they don't allow employers to mandate that their workers participate in their direct deposit programs. |
Payroll Reconciliation And Reporting
In this audio conference, you will learn payroll reconciliation and reporting tips that will help you - and the rest of your company - sleep better knowing both your workers and the government are happy with payroll. |
Payroll Records: What To Keep, What To Toss
This audio conference covers the rules for identifying, filing, retaining, protecting, and destroying your important payroll records. |
Payroll Rules For Inpat & Expat Payroll Dates through 10/28/2026
Learn how to properly pay employees in foreign jurisdictions, how to run a shadow payroll in the United States, and how to work with a third party provider who may be performing the tax equalization for these workers. |
PHR-SPHR Certification Prep Class
This fully online, instructor-led certification prep course is designed to prepare you to earn your PHR or SPHR certification credential. |
Practical Tips That Strengthen Your Workers' Comp Program - And Your Bottom Line Dates through 9/30/2026
If these or other workers' comp problems are testing your patience, you need some ways to strengthen your program and your profits! And this audio conference will help! |
Profiting From Government Guaranteed Loans
This training session provides tips on how government guaranteed loan programs have evolved to be easier and more efficient to access and manage; it also includes an overview into the SBA's 7(a), 504/CDC and Express Loan programs, as well as USDA's B&I program and Ex-Im Bank financing options. |
Questions & Answers For Handling Travel Pay
This webinar covers the IRS rules regarding what is considered travel versus commute and what is an allowable expense versus taxable wages. It will enable you to understand how and when to compensate an employee for travel time away from a work site. |
Reasonable or Not? How HR Should Respond to ADA Accommodation Requests
This must-attend training session will help to ensure you are current on the law, understand how to identify true, qualified disabilities, how to handle employee accommodation requests, and how to handle requests that are unreasonable and create an undue hardship on the employer. |
Recruiting Without Risk: Background Checks, FCRA, And Avoiding Discrimination Claims
By attending this training session, you and/or your team will learn legally compliant best practices a firm can utilize to avoid a bad hire yet keep itself productive and out of court. |
Reporting Compensation: W-2s And 1099s
In this audio conference we will cover how the information gathered on the W-9 is reflected on the 1099 and how the information on the W-4 is reflected on the W-2. We will cover all the blocks on the 1099 and the W-2, and explain what is reported in those respective blocks. |
Requirements For Unclaimed Paychecks Dates through 10/8/2026
No, you do not get to keep unclaimed paychecks! Each state has specific requirements for what to do with unclaimed paychecks. Attend this training session to learn how to comply with laws for handling - and reporting - unclaimed payroll checks and other property. |
Review Of OSHA Hazardous Energy Control (LOTO) Standard
This will enable attendees to more intelligently review their company’s LOTO program and procedures thus protecting their employees and positioning their company to minimize the possibility of a itation for failure to comply with OSHA’s Hazardous nergy Control standard. |
Rules And Requirements For Employee Expense Reimbursements
Reimbursements of employee business expenses made under accountable plans can be excluded from an employee's gross income; do you know the fundamentals of how an accountable plan works? Do you provide a per diem to your employees and are you aware of the accounting issues associated with the use of per diems? Are your employees given an advance prior to traveling? |
Serious Complaint Or Employee Drama? Dates through 12/1/2026
In this informative audio conference, learn how to sift through all the employee drama to clearly identify legitimate employee relations' issues that need to be investigated - and which ones you should push back on or have your managers and supervisors handled themselves. |
Strategic Thinking For Talent Acquisition
This training session helps HR leaders develop and execute a talent acquisition strategy for attracting and retaining the best candidates. |
Tackle Excel Pivot Tables
In this training session, Excel expert David Ringstrom gets you up to speed fast, but also helps you avoid frustrating quirks and nuances of using Pivot Tables. By the end of this webcast you'll be able to transform data into a pivot table-ready format, and then instantly create reports by simply dragging and dropping fields with your mouse. |
Ten Surefire Strategies For Delivering Win-Win Performance Evaluations
If you are required to conduct a formal, annual evaluation, it may be time to sharpen your skills. You will walk away from this audio conference with 10 critical strategies for making evaluations a motivational tool. |
The ADA Gray Area: Managing Difficult Accommodation Issues
In this must-attend audio conference we will ensure you are current on the law - and help you manage and the evaluate the employee accommodation requests, as well as how to "push back" on requests that are unreasonable. |
The I9 - Proper Completion And Verification For New Hires Dates through 1/6/2027
The Form I-9 process, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will help you verify your employee's identity and employment authorization. |
THE NEW I9– Mandated Requirements For Worker Verification And Authorization
The Form I-9 process, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will help you verify your employee's identity and employment authorization. |
THE NEW I9– Mandated Requirements For Worker Verification And Authorization
The Form I-9 process, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will help you verify your employee's identity and employment authorization. |
Tips For Tracking, Monitoring, And Managing Your Workers' Comp Claims
Join us for a 90-minute audio conference when our expert reviews successful strategies for tracking, monitoring, and managing your workers' comp claims at work. |
Underwriting Franchise Business Loans
This training program discusses the key elements that should be considered when underwriting loans to franchise businesses to ensure inherent risks are recognized and that profitable results will follow. |
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What Top HR Professionals Do Differently: 7 Traits for Success Dates through 12/9/2026
In this informative session, you will learn what it takes to work in management from an experienced HR leader with nearly 25 years of experience in successfully running departments and leading others. |
When Background Checks Reveal Criminal History: Making Legally Defensible Hiring Decisions Dates through 11/12/2026
This audio conference focuses on some of the most-common background check challenges many hiring managers face. |
When Leave Doesn't Add Up: Investigating Suspected FMLA Abuse
This course will teach you strategies for identifying and handling potential FMLA abuse, how to effectively document FMLA to confront abusers, and how effective steps in how to manage FMLA abuse investigations. |
When Leave Laws Collide: Navigating FMLA, ADA, And PWFA Without Making Costly Mistakes Dates through 11/30/2026
To better understand your organization's compliance requirements with the overlap of the FMLA, ADA, And Pregnancy Discrimination Act, get tips for managing such requirements, and avoiding legal complications from irate employees, attend this training session |
When Managers Push Back: How HR Can Get Buy-In and Drive Accountability
There are many factors that contribute to why managers don't "get it", and in this training session we'll discuss some of the root causes, as well as ways to proactively address the issue. |
Worker Classification
During this program, you will learn how to properly use and pay independent contractors - and assist in avoiding costly worker-classification audits. |
Workers' Comp 101: The Whats, Whens, And Whys
This 90 minute training session will provide you and/or your team with a better understanding of how workers’ comp works, plus how you can directly impact claim outcomes and costs. |