Take on chronic absenteeism ... and WIN

Do you feel stuck between letting chronic absences spiral out of control and worrying about triggering lawsuits by improperly denying leave?  You’re not alone.

Join us to learn the latest leave-coordination strategies that will help you keep disruption and liability to an absolute minimum. Noted employment law attorney Jonathan Landesman will answer your toughest questions – teaching you how to make the FMLA, ADA and workers' comp work for you instead of against you.

This popular interactive audio conference will boost your success in handling ALL your crucial employee-leave issues.  Join us to discover:

How is your organization responding to the one-two FMLA punch that Washington just delivered? “Business as usual” isn’t the right answer.

Congress has voted to extend FMLA leave to certain military families. (Sounds simple? It’s not.) And the Bush administration proposed a dozen other changes to the FMLA that will affect your notice obligations, certification procedures and more.

Discover which of these changes are in effect now … which will be finalized later … and what your organization MUST do to comply. Join us for FMLA in 2008: Complying with the New Changes.  

Your employee handbook: a helpful organizational tool or an employment lawsuit waiting to happen? Employee handbooks can be either an invaluable asset or your worst nightmare.

To help you avoid disaster, nationally recognized author, educator and attorney Anniken Davenport has agreed to again present her popular interactive audio conference Employee Handbooks: 12 Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them.

Politics is about getting what you want.  But it doesn’t have to involve devious plotting or blatant self-promotion.  The truth is, you CAN get what you want – while benefiting your organization.  How?  By taking part in Marie McIntyre’s interactive audio conference Top 10 Secrets to Winning at Office Politics.

In this 75-minute session, nationally syndicated columnist Dr. Marie McIntyre will share her success secrets for the game of office politics.  You’ll discover the keys to getting what you want – by successfully managing workplace relationships.

An insightful, interactive Audio Conference from the law firm of Cohen, Seglias, Pallas, Greenhall, and Furman

Destroy the wrong document, and you could be destroying your career.  Keep everything, and you may be violating federal regulations on the “reasonable” disposal of sensitive documents.  Keep nothing, and you’re virtually guaranteed to lose in any legal battle.

Deciding how long (and where) to store employee records – once a minor logistical headache – has mushroomed into a giant and legal minefield for employers and HR pros.  And new federal rules on retaining e-mail records (that took effect Dec. 1) complicate things even more!

When it comes to the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), do you feel like your employees are taking advantage of you?

Fully half of all HR professionals believe they've been conned into approving fraudulent FMLA leave requests, costing their employers both time and money, and the proportion of employees with “multiple episodes” of leave is growing rapidly.

But you don't just have to sit there and take it.  You CAN turn the tables on con artists and abusers, and take charge of FMLA compliance – including maddening intermittent leave requests – IF you know how to effectively manage the law.

How?

Get what you want with better communication!

Do you have the courage to communicate what you want?  So many people settle for what they NEED – the bare minimum – instead of striving for the things they truly WANT.  But how do you go from need to want?  With better communication at work.

Like the Cowardly Lion, the courage has been in you all along.  Now you can unleash it – by discovering The 5 Secrets to Better Communication at Work. 

What Will You Learn?