Employment Law Training

A Drug-free Workplace

How common is drug use?
How can I work to eliminate drug use in my workplace?
What are some signs that my workers may have a problem with drugs?
How do I stage an intervention with an employee?

A Safe Workplace: OSHA and Right-to-Know Laws

Be able to explain OSHA laws and give a few examples of regulated areas
Understand right-to-know laws
Understand how OSHA regulations are enforced

Accessing Your Medical and Exposure Records

What counts as medical records?
What does access mean?
How long do employers need to retain these records?
What if a company go out of business?
Who else is allowed to access an employee’s medical and exposure records?

Accidents: An Overview

What is the objective of an accident or incident analysis?
Who should be involved?
What questions should the analysis answer?

AED-Saving Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims

What is an AED?
What is cardiac arrest?
What causes cardiac arrest?
Why would we need to install an AED in the workplace?
Where should they be installed?
How do I train employees in the use of AEDs?
How much do they cost?

Aggressive, Distracted, Drowsy, Impaired Driving

What is unsafe driving behavior?
When are you fit to drive? When are you not?
What can you do to make yourself a safer driver?
How can you tell if another motorist is intoxicated?
When should you report an unsafe driver?

An Overview of Business Ethics

Define business ethics and explain what it means to act ethically in business
Explain how you can recognize an ethical organization

Basic Elements of a First Aid Training Program

Know the areas that should be covered by a first aid training program
Know where to get training courses or materials

Basic First Aid

Know general rules about performing first aid
Know when to use CPR
Know how to stop bleeding
Know how to clean and bandage a wound
Know types of burns and procedures for treating each type
Know how to preempt shock
Know what to do for a person who is having or has just had a seizure
Know how to train employees in the use of AEDs

Basics of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Know what laws pertain to disabled workers
Know how to ensure your compliance with these laws
Know how to apply a 4-step process for hiring and managing disabled workers

Cold Stress for Employers

Know how to identify hypothermia, frostbite, trench foot, and chilblains
Know how to treat exposure-related problems
Know how to protect workers from being exposed to cold stress dangers

Corporate Social Responsibility: Part 1

Learn actions that managers can take to create and sustain ethical organizations
Know how and why managers have a fiduciary responsibility to a company
Understand how organizations protect employee safety and health

Corporate Social Responsibility: Part 2

Be familiar with the discussions surrounding and regulations concerning sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, and fair pay

Corporate Social Responsibility: Part 3

Learn how conscientious corporations engage with their customers and their communities

Creating a Drivers' Safety Program: 10 Steps

Become familiar with NHTSA's 10-step process for creating a drivers’ safety program
Help to keep your insurance costs down
Keep costs associated with traffic accidents down

Criminal versus Civil Law for Business

Distinguish between criminal law and civil law
Understand the roles of plaintiffs and defendants in both criminal and civil cases
Define a tort, explain tort law, and discuss an intentional tort

Current Labor Challenges and Labor Laws

Explain some of the reasons for a decline in union membership over the past sixty years
Be able to explain the process of unionization and laws that relate to unionization

Determining Hours Worked

Understand what counts as paid work time
Learn about common mistakes employers make in counting paid time and how to avoid them

Determining Overtime Exemptions

Understand when an employee qualifies for overtime
Learn about the FLSA law and how it applies to employee overtime
Know which categories count towards exemption from overtime
Learn three common errors employers often make when considering employee overtime

Disabilities - Effective Emergency Preparedness Planning

Are there federal laws or regulations that address employees with disabilities and emergency planning?
Can I ask employees if they will require assistance in an emergency?
Can I use elevators to evacuate employees in an emergency?
What do I need to keep in mind while putting together my emergency plan?

Disabilities - Effective Interaction

What should I keep in mind during a conversation or interview?
Are there topics or phrases that I should avoid?
How do I get someone’s attention if they can’t see me or can’t hear me?

Disabilities - Opening Doors to All Candidates

How do I interview someone who might not understand me?
What accommodations do I need to make during the interview?
How do I prepare for an interview with someone who has a disability?
Am I allowed to ask about their disability during the interview?
Can I have applicants take a medical exam?

Discrimination and Harassment Basics

Review the basics of the law and who it applies to
Understand what a protected class is and who falls under it

Elements of a Drivers' Safety Program

Understand the necessary elements for a comprehensive and successful drivers’ safety program

Emergency Exit Routes

How many exit routes need to be in your workplace?
What are the design and construction requirements for emergency exits?
How do I need to maintain my emergency exits?
Do I need an Emergency Action Plan?
Do I need a Fire Prevention Plan?

Employment Laws - Medical and Disability

What is the ADA?
What is the FMLA?
What is Worker’s Compensation?
Can a situation fall under multiple laws?
What is a “serious health condition”?
How do I figure out which law applies to a given case?
If more than one law applies, which benefits does the employee receive?

Environmentalism and Corporate Social Responsibility

Identify threats to the natural environment and explain how businesses are addressing them

Evacuating Highrise Buildings

What can employers do to prepare for an emergency?
What can employees do to prepare for an emergency?
Where do I go after evacuating?
What do I do if I get trapped inside during an emergency?

Fire Safety in the Workplace

What do employers need to do to protect workers from fire hazards?
What are the OSHA requirements for fire exits, extinguishers and emergency plans?
Do you need a fire prevention plan?
What are the OSHA standards for fixed extinguishing systems?

First Aid for Seizures

Know the stages of a tonic-clonic seizure
Know the features of a seizure
Know what to look for to determine whether to call 911
Know what to do for a person who is having or has just had a seizure
Know how to stop bleeding, clean, and bandage minor wounds

First Aid for Surface Injuries

Know the different types of burns
Know procedures for treating each type of burn
Know how to preempt shock
Know how to clean and bandage a wound
Be familiar with special considerations for different types of wounds, such as punctures and animal bites

Harassment Basics: Employment Law in the Workplace

Review the basics of harassment and employment law
Learn how to deal with harassment in your workplace

Harassment Prevention: Managers' Responsibilities

What your legal obligations are
How to prevent harassment and discrimination in the workplace
How to prevent and deal with retaliation
How to promptly deal with complaints

Health Hazards at Work: Cumulative Trauma and Exposures

Be able to explain cumulative trauma and exposures as health concerns that can affect employees at work

Health Hazards at Work: Promoting a Culture of Safety and Health

Be able to discuss employee privacy as a health and safety concern at work
Increase your knowledge of ways to promote a culture of safety and health in the workplace

Health Hazards at Work: Stress

Be able to explain stress as a health concern that can affect employees at work

Health Hazards at Work: Violence and Bullying

Be able to explain bullying and violence as health and safety concerns that can affect employees at work

Identifying Ethical Issues: Part 1

Identify ethical issues that you might face in business
Analyze rationalizations for unethical behavior

Identifying Ethical Issues: Part 2

Understand what is meant by honesty and integrity in the workplace
Learn what it means to be a whistleblower in an unethical organization
Learn some common rationalizations for unethical behavior

Industrial Hygiene: Preventing Hazards in the Workplace

What is Industrial Hygiene?
What is a Worksite Analysis?
How do IH's Recognize and Control Hazards?
What Are Some Examples of Job Hazards?
What Help Can OSHA Provide?

Injuries from Mass Casualty Events

Know the types of injuries that are common in mass casualty events
Know what to do if you are injured in a mass casualty event
Know how to stay healthy during such an event
Know where to look in case of a health problem during a mass casualty event
Know what a traumatic brain injury is and its symptoms
Know who to consult about a traumatic brain injury

Introducing the Foundations of Business

You will learn the major factors that influence a business' success
You will view these factors through the example of Apple's success

Job Hazard Analysis

Understand the objectives of a job hazard analysis
Know how to run a job hazard analysis
Know the difference between engineering and administrative controls, and how each can be used in hazard prevention

Job Hazard Analysis: OSHA Assistance

What are state plans?
What is consultation assistance and how can it help me?
What are VPPs?
What are OSPPs?
What safety and health training does OSHA offer?

Keeping Your Workplace Safe

How can employers keep their employees safer, comply with the law, and reduce liability exposure?

Laws Relating to Pay

Understand the basic laws related to work pay

Making Sense of FMLA and Other Leave Laws

Know what is provided to employees by the FMLA and similar leave laws
Know the types of FMLA leave that can be used
Know what types of medical issues are covered by the FMLA

Maximizing Productivity - Accommodations for Employees with Psychiatric Disabilities

How common are psychiatric disabilities?
Will all workers with disabilities need accommodations?
What can I do to help a worker with a psychiatric disability?

Minimizing the Legal Risk of Terminations

Understand the key concepts you should consider when contemplating an employee's termination of employment
Learn how to mitigate your legal risks during a termination

Misgoverning Corporations: An Overview

What are some examples of bad business ethics?
Why do some heads of corporations commit crimes?

Multiculturalism and the Law

Define the role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Explain the various types of laws covered by the EEOC

Navigating Religious Non-Discrimination Laws

Know what behaviors constitute religious harassment and discrimination
Know what accommodations are expected of employers to allow an employee to observe religious practices
Know a manager's responsibilities with regards to religious harassment, discrimination, and accommodation

Non-Discrimination and Non-Harassment Policies

Learn about the typical nondiscrimination and nonharassment components of employer policies
Know how to report concerns and what a typical investigation looks like

OSH Act: Worker Rights

Who is covered by OSHA?
What are an employer’s responsibilities to their employees?
What OSHA standards relate to worker’s rights?
What records do employees have the right to access?

OSHA Assistance Programs

What are the OSHA Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines?
What states have their own workplace safety and health plans?
What programs does OSHA offer to employers and employees who follow OSHA guidelines?
What kind of training and grant opportunities does OSHA offer?

OSHA Inspections: An Overview

Have a general understanding of OSHA’s inspection process
Understand the deadlines and penalties of violations and citations

OSHA: An Overview

What is OSHA?
What does OSHA do for employees?
What does OSHA require of employers?
Are there other organizations that work with OSHA to enforce workplace safety?
What happens when a workplace is inspected by OSHA?

Planning and Responding to Workplace Emergencies

Know an employer’s role in keeping the workplace safe in the event of an emergency
Understand how to create an emergency procedure
Know how to designate a chain of command and emergency responders
Learn how to implement a training regimen for the emergency plan
Learn how to provide protective equipment and medical assistance

Preventing Religious Discrimination

How do I accommodate an employee who has religious obligations that conflict with work?
What if another employee complains about a coworker’s religious practices?
What can I do if a customer complains about my employee’s religious garb?
Is it acceptable to transfer an employee to another job if I can’t accommodate them in their current one?

Product Liability: Strict Liability and Negligence

Define product liability and discuss the three grounds, or “theories of recovery,” for a claim of product liability
Discuss the three forms of manufacturer’s negligence that may be claimed in a product-liability case
Define strict liability and explain the doctrine of strict liability in tort

Product Liability: Warranties, Agency and Damages

Define a warranty and distinguish between express warranties and implied warranties
Identify the primary goal of tort law and distinguish between compensatory damages and punitive damages

Public Law: Government and the Economic Environment

Explain externalities and show why taxation is used as a means of addressing them
Discuss the idea of market failure and the principle of efficiency as a foundation of law

Public Law: Introducing the Principles

Explain the difference between private law and public law
Define statutory law and give examples of statutory laws at various governmental levels
Explain externalities and show why taxation is used as a means of addressing them

Public Law: Understanding Statutory and Administrative Law

Define administrative law and discuss the role of federal administrative agencies in making and enforcing administrative laws
Define case law and explain the concepts of precedent and judicial review

Questions and Answers about Religious Discrimination in the Workplace

What is Title VII?
How does Title VII define “religion”?
Are there exceptions to the Title VII rule?
Who is covered by Title VII?

Questions and Answers about Religious Discrimination in the Workplace 2

What qualifies as religious harassment?
When are employers liable for harassment?
When are employers required to provide accommodations?
How do religious accommodations work with union rules?
What if somebody complains about a coworker’s religious accommodation?

Questions and Answers about Religious Discrimination in the Workplace 3

What kind of accommodations might I offer to my religious employees?
Should I allow employees to skip company activities that they have a religious objection to?
How does title VII interact with the first amendment?
What should I do if I or one of my employees is the victim of religious discrimination?

Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA

Know what a reasonable accommodation is
Know how to determine what is and is not a reasonable accommodation
Know what an "undue hardship" is
Know how to document the process of deciding on and implementing an accommodation for a disabled employee

Recordkeeping Highlights

Who is required to keep these records?
When do I record an incident?
What is “work related”?
What forms do I use?
How should employees be involved in this process?

Record-keeping: OSHA Forms Tutorial

How do I complete forms 300, 301, and 300A?
When do I have to fill out these forms?
What counts as a work-related injury?
How long do I have to keep the forms?

Recordkeeping: Recording Criteria

What are OSHA’s basic recording criteria?
How do I count days away from work?
What is restricted work?
What qualifies as medical treatment?

Recordkeeping: Work Relatedness

Does a work-related injury or illness have to happen at the worksite?
What if I go on a business trip?
Does it have to be a new condition?
Are there exceptions?

Recruitment: Recruitment Law, Part I: IRCA and Patriot Act

Explain the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and Patriot Act, and how they relate to recruiting

Recruitment: Recruitment Law, Part II: EEO Set of Laws

Explain the equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws and how they relate to recruiting

Reporting and Preventing Harassment

How to prevent harassment and discrimination
What to do when harassment and discrimination has occurred
Suggestions for making sure a harassment claim is taken seriously

Retail Violence Prevention: Hazard Prevention and Control

Know engineering and work practice controls that may help keep workers safe

Retail Violence Prevention: Introduction

Know the relative risks experienced by retail trade employees
Know the important elements of a workplace violence prevention program

Retail Violence Prevention: Program Roles and Security Analysis

Know how to conduct a workplace security assessment

Retail Violence Prevention: Training and Program Evaluation

Know who to train about violence prevention measures
Know how to keep records to effectively evaluate workplace violence

Reviewing Law and the Legal System

Define law and explain how it differs from a legal system
Explain the concept of the rule of law and discuss the role of flexibility and fairness in a legal system
Discuss the primary functions of law in the United States

Rights and Responsibilities After an OSHA Inspection

Know how to comply with an OSHA citation
Know how to contest an OSHA citation and the related requirements
Know how to change the abatement date if necessary

Rights and Responsibilities of Employers

Know what violations can result from an inspection
Know your responsibilities regarding violations

Rights During an OSHA Inspection

How can I file a complaint with OSHA?
Who can file a complaint?
What are my rights during and after an inspection?
Does OSHA offer training?

Safety and Health Add Value

Why should an employer use OSHA standards?
What are some OSHA programs available to businesses?
How much money could a business save by implementing OSHA standards?
What are the benefits to employees who are protected by OSHA?
Where can you find additional information about OSHA programs?

Safety and Health Management Programs: An Overview

Why have a workplace health and safety program?
Who is involved in putting together the program?
What is involved in a worksite analysis?
What should be included in my employee’s health and safety training?

Sexual Harassment - What Is It?

What is sexual harassment?
What is an example of discrimination?
What is prejudice?
How do I know if there is discrimination or sexual harassment in my workplace?
What do I do if I’ve been discriminated against?
What if it’s my co-worker or friend?
What can I do to handle harassment in the workplace as a supervisor or manager?

Sexual Harassment: Take Action

What can you do if you are an employee and the victim of sexual harassment or discrimination?
What are formal resolutions? Informal resolutions?
What can you do if you’re an employer to respond to claims of sexual harassment or discrimination?
What is reprisal?
What are some common conversational barriers to good human relations?

Stages of Corporate Responsibility

List the stages of corporate responsibility

The American Disability Act: An Overview

How does a person’s disability weigh into hiring decisions?
What are “reasonable accommodations”?
What do accommodations cost?
Do people abuse their protection under the ADA?

The Benefits of an Environmental Management System

What is an EMS?
How can an EMS reduce your organization’s expenses?
How might an EMS affect company image?
How will an EMS help employee health?
How will an EMS affect company legal obligations?

The Benefits of Workplace Drivers' Safety Programs

Understand the costs to employers of car crashes in general
Learn the costs relative to your own company
Become familiar with the success of other companies that have instituted safe driving programs

The Individual Approach to Ethics

Know the differences between an ethical dilemma and an ethical decision
Specify the steps that you would take to solve an ethical dilemma and make an ethical decision

The Legal Environment in Human Resources

Understand the importance of legal rights in the workplace
Broadly understand and describe seven important legal acts

The Organizational Approach to Ethics

Specify actions that managers can take to create and sustain ethical organizations

Understanding Negligence Torts in Business

Define a negligence tort and discuss the elements of a negligence claim
Explain a contract and discuss the requirements of an enforceable contract
Explain the concepts of respondeat superior and scope of employment and discuss their roles in an employment contract

Understanding the Family and Medical Leave Act

Who is eligible for FMLA leave?
What employers are covered by FMLA?
How long can medical or family leave last?
Do employees need to provide certification for their medical conditions?
Who enforces the FMLA?

Understanding the Interrelation of Leave & Disability Laws

Know the features and requirements for Worker's Comp, family medical leave laws, and disability laws
Know how to manage the different types of leave that might be used by ill and injured workers

Voluntary Protection Program: Preparing for OSHA's Visit

Know the OSHA visit process and the necessary documentation
Know the evaluation procedures and possible outcome

Worker’s Compensation Overview

Know how Worker's Compensation laws apply
Know an employer's responsibilities in the case of a claim
Know an employee's rights to Worker's Compensation benefits

Workplace First Aid Programs

Know who needs to implement a first aid program
Know the requirements of a workplace first aid program
Know the steps for developing a first aid program

Workplace Law

Gain an overview on the most common workplace laws

Your Health Plan and HIPAA

Can a health plan exclude coverage for a preexisting condition?
What counts as a preexisting condition?
Can a plan deny benefits for chronic illnesses?
Are there any conditions that cannot be subjected to an exclusion period?

Your Health Plan and HIPAA 2

How do I reduce the preexisting condition exclusion period on my new health plan?
What is a “significant break”?
How do I avoid a significant break in coverage?

Your Health Plan and HIPAA 3

What is a certificate of creditable coverage?
When should I receive a certificate of creditable coverage?
What if I lost my certificate?
What do I do if i never received a certificate?
What should I do with the certificate once I have it?

Your Health Plan and HIPAA 4

What is special enrollment?
How do I qualify for special enrollment?
When do I apply for special enrollment?

Your Health Plan and HIPAA 5

What is discrimination in health care?
Can employers offer different health care rates or coverage to different employees?
How does HIPAA interact with workplace wellness programs?
Can state plans have different requirements than federal regulations?

Your Health Plan and HIPAA 6

How does HIPAA interact with state laws?
How can COBRA extend my health care coverage?
How do I best take advantage of HIPAA and COBRA benefits?
How do I change from a group health plan to an individual insurance policy?

Your Rights as a Whistleblower

What are your rights if you report a violation?
What counts as unfavorable personnel action?
How do you file a complaint?
Can you refuse to work and still be protected?