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The Lifecycle of a Criminal Tax Investigation
Who investigates tax crimes and how are tax crimes prosecuted?Considered the "World's Finest Financial Investigators", the IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has sole jurisdiction in tax crimes and boasts a greater than 90% conviction rate. This agency was responsible for Al Capone going to federal prison and 90 years later they continue to investigate tax crimes such as tax evasion, filing false tax retur..
Labor Relations Survival Crash Course
Attendees will have the opportunity to widen their skill set enough to be able to hit the ground running to meet the challenges of most labor-management environments. Among the areas to be explored will be the groundwork and guidelines for positive labor-management relationships along with an examination of the roles of the Union and its representatives/Stewards as well as the management side of the equatio..
How to Handle Tricky Employee Absenteeism Problems?
When employees don’t play fair with your organization’s absentee policy and take an unplanned or excessive time off, it causes problems and you need solutions! This webinar will teach you how to create or update your attendance policy which complies with legal standards and which can be flexible enough to meet the demands of different departments or positions. The program will also address federal and state..
The FTC Ban on Non-Compete Agreements: What Employers Need to Know
The FTC estimates that 30 million people – one in five US workers – are bound by a noncompete clause in their current jobs. And for most of them, the agency asserts, such a clause restricts them from freely switching jobs, lowers wages, stifles innovation, blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses and undermines fair competition.The final rule is a somewhat narrower version of the proposed rule that..
The Manager as Coach
Managing and motivating an increasingly diverse workforce, along with a blend of virtual, hybrid and distributed teams, poses unique challenges. To meet these challenges and positively influence employee performance, today’s managers must shift from traditional management approaches to more of a coaching role. When managers provide guidance and support through coaching, teams are more high-performing, colla..
Strategies for Discrimination Prevention: An EEO Investigator's Toolkit
Strategies for discrimination prevention require a proactive and comprehensive approach. This session offers an in-depth exploration of discrimination prevention, covering the historical context, legal foundations, and practical tools for EEO investigators. Topics include promoting workplace diversity, conducting effective investigations, implementing preventative measures, and fostering a culture of inclus..
The Dos and Dont's of Documenting Employee Performance: What Employers Need to Know
You’ve heard the statement, “If it’s not written down, it didn’t happen”. The human resources mantra to managers and supervisors is to "document, document, document", because disciplinary actions can often give rise to claims of discrimination, leading to high costs of litigation. But do your managers and supervisor know how, when, and what to document? Badly worded documentation and suspiciously timed admi..
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) - Comparing COSO and ISO
This course is all about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) standards.COSO and ISO 31000 each represent a standard for managing risk. The key question is what do each of these standards say and most importantly how do they compare. This is the context of this course.Risk management refers to a coordinated set of activities and methods that is used to direct an organization and to control the many risks ..
Everybody’s in Sales
We’ll talk about what is sales, why it’s important, and why it’s everyone’s responsibility in a company to bring in new business. We’ll also go through 5 steps of the sales process step by step. This will be an introduction to the sales process, to give a basic understanding of each step and basic examples of what each step looks like practically.Areas CoveredIntro to topic Why sales is importantSales Call ..
Property Transaction Taxation
This session highlights the current tax rules associated with capital gains and losses because of the change in the COLA calculation from CPE-U to C-CPI-U. In addition, we look at the basis determinations resulting from the different ways to acquire property for business or personal use. Gifts, for example, received by an individual result in some challenges when determining a person’s gains or losses, whic..
The Key To Effective PIP's
An Employee Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal document that outlines specific concerns or gaps in an employee’s performance. It serves as a strategy to help the employee improve on the specific areas of their job where they are not meeting the requirements of the position they were hired for. There are certain items that must be included when presenting an employee with a Performance Improvemen..
Complying with Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Many would think that the answers to how to accommodate the pregnant worker in the workplace would be a no brainer. Of course, it is not that easy – mostly because of a hodgepodge of cases over the years. Cases were so inconsistent that the Supreme Court became involved resulting in its decision of Young v. UPS. Maybe you thought that the Supreme Court would have the final say? No, Congress respon..
The DOL Predicts That The Overtime Rule Would Be Launched in April 2024!
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is a semiannual compilation of information about regulations under development by federal agencies, published in the spring and fall.The government’s fall regulatory agenda just dropped. Highlights include overtime regulations slated for April 2024.The DOL plans to finalize updates to the executive, administrative and professional exemption for o..
Human Resource Audits: How to Conduct a Practical Audit Without Overwhelm?
Any HR professional knows that a major part of their responsibility is keeping the company’s employment files organized for many legal reasons but also because it helps to keep your operations going smoothly. An externally-driven audit by a government agency could result in dire consequences including fines, citations, and shutdowns. Without a system or organizing files followed up by regular internal audit..
Garnishments, Subpoena’s, Levies, Summonses and other Legal Orders
New hire reporting laws applicable to all US businesses have one goal in mind to quickly identify where parents who owe child support are employed. In some states, it applies to independent contractors as well. Businesses can expect wage garnishments on some of these individuals shortly after these reports are filed. Of course, garnishments are also filed against workers who owe taxing agencies or other cre..