Affirmative Action

Manual & Newsletter

This product saves time and money by showing how to develop a sound affirmative action program before you get into hot water. It's a comprehensive manual and monthly newsletter to help keep you up-to-date.

Overview

• Develop the affirmative action plan you need with our award-winning Affirmative Action Plan program.
• This comprehensive affirmative action plan program contains everything you need to successfully develop your own plan. The comprehensive materials help employers comply with discrimination laws and develop a diverse workforce.
• Includes sample plans, checklists, form letters, policies, and training information.
• Program consists of a comprehensive guide book, monthly newsletter and bi-annual supplements to help you implement affirmative action in the workplace.

This "plain-English" state-specific reference guide makes complying with employment laws easy. The 2010 Employment Law Guide delivers clear, straightforward answers to the state labor and HR laws that apply to your organization. It will tell you what all critical human resources regulations mean, what you need to do to comply, and how federal labor laws differ from those in your state.

This guide will provide you with the latest state and federal employment laws and regulations necessary to ensure that you are in compliance. Knowing the proper way to handle HR issues is the only way to protect your organization.

Covers more than 200 topics, including:

• Affirmative Action laws
• Age discrimination
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Background checks
• Child labor
• Civil rights
• Employee benefits
• ERISA
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• FMLA
• Hiring

If you are an employer in California with 50 or more employees, two recently enacted sexual harassment laws (AB1825 and GC12950.1) mandate that you train all supervisory level staff employed as of 7/1/05 with at least two hours of prevention training - by 1/1/06. The required training must be repeated no less than once every two years for each and every supervisory employee.

This new BLR PowerPoint Training kit makes it easy to deliver the newly mandated required training. It explains the Federal and California laws and discusses types of sexual harassment—tangible employment action and hostile environment —including realistic examples of each. Shows how sexual harassment affects a whole company, plus what each person can do to recognize and stop it.

California Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment covers:

Kit includes all this:
• A 43-slide PowerPoint CD with detailed speaker’s notes
• 20 copies of 44-page employee-training pocket guide
• A comprehensive leader’s guide
• Downloadable training Completion Certificate
• English and Spanish employee handouts (20 printed copies of each and word file on CD)
• Quiz
• California Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment (PowerPoint) $399.99 [Add to Cart]

This complete compliance resource covers 150 hot employment law topics by state, including: employee rights, discrimination, employment at will, labor relations, privacy, workers' compensation, child labor, affirmative action, and much more.

Need to know how federal labor law differs from your state? It’s easy! Quick Guide to Employment Law provides you with easy-to-use charts comparing federal to state human resource regulations … so you can see which takes precedence.

Don’t waste your valuable time researching the answers to employment law topics. Just open up the Quick Guide to Employment Law and get capsule summaries and comparisons of HR laws in all 50 states plus Washington D.C.

In this unique chart-based reference guide on state employment regulations, you’ll find:

• Plain-English explanations of all major federal and state employment laws
• Three free updates and newsletters per year so you stay on top of the latest issues in employment law
• All corresponding regulations, statutes, and court cases
• Easy-to-read charts highlight federal and state employment laws side by side so you can quickly compare which takes precedence
• Extensive indexing system with convenient cross-references make research easy

Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select the specific state when placing your order online.

• Quick Guide to Employment Law $399.99 [Add to Cart]

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) employers are always responsible for sexual harassment by a supervisor that leads to a tangible employment action. If no tangible employment action occurs, employers are still responsible unless they can prove two things:

• They took reasonable steps to prevent and correct sexual harassment,including establishing a complaint procedure for employees to follow.
• The employee did not make a reasonable effort to complain to management or to protect himself or herself from harm. The new Click 'n Train PowerPoint Presentation will help train employees in Spanish and English on what they need to know - the dangers of sexual harassment, how to recognize the various types of sexual harassment, what to do if they are a witness to or a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, and their role in preventing it from becoming a problem in your organization.

The Spanish/English Sexual Harassment presentation includes:

• A fully prepared PowerPoint presentation
• Reproducible handouts and quiz in Spanish and English
• Completion Certificate in Spanish and English
• Easy-to-customize PowerPoints
• Interactive exercises
• Trainer's outlines

• Click 'n Train Spanish/English Edition: Sexual Harassment - What Employees Need to Know PowerPoint $149.99 [Add to Cart]

More than ever, successful organizations need employees with different backgrounds, beliefs, needs, lifestyles and physical abilities. Failure to work together can destroy productivity and expose your organization to expensive lawsuits, discrimination claims and affirmative action problems.

Use this program to help all employees develop skills to work better with all types of co-workers and customers.

Developed in conjunction with BLR's illustrated Diversity training booklet, this coordinated kit includes 20 copies of the booklet, 30 PPT slides, trainer/speaker notes, quiz and completion certificate. (Additional booklets available at discount price)

• Diversity in the Workplace: PowerPoint Training Meeting Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]

Designed to address the unique human resource needs of motor carriers, this convenient reference is packed with a wide range of essential HR and labor-related information.

It explains regulatory requirements in easy-to-understand terms, includes best practices, and gives you valuable insight on how to handle transport-specific HR issues like driver qualification, alcohol and drug testing, driver retention, and more.

The HR for Motor Carriers Manual is attorney-reviewed and features an easy-to-follow format that helps you quickly reference info on:

• Transport Issues - CDLs, DQ files, owners/operators, drug and alcohol tests and exams, hazmat background checks, hazmat training, driver safety
• Management - Organizational design/structure, environmental scanning, ROI of HR, HR audits, government contracts, succession planning
• Hiring - Job analysis, job descriptions, recruiting drivers and other employees, interviewing, immigration, background checks, affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, contractors, leasing employees, employee information, tests/exams
• New Employees - Employee orientation, employee handbooks, relocation, policies and procedures, training, international employees
• Wages & Hours - Time off (vacation, leaves), wages, pay administration, job evaluation
• Benefits - Mandated (Social Security, Medicare, FMLA, etc.), voluntary (health care, retirement, life insurance, etc.), ERISA considerations
• Employee Relations - Driver and employee retention strategies, performance reviews, work/life balance, hours of service, wellness, discipline, training, employee development, labor relations
• Safety and Security - Workplace and driver safety, workplace and driver security, workplace violence, drug-free workplace and drivers diversity and
• Discrimination and Employee Protections - discrimination, harassment, emergency procedures/preparedness, child labor, privacy, ADA issues, Whistleblower protection
• Workers' Compensation - MOD rate, proactive prevention, medical management, rehabilitation, fraud
• Employee Separation - Exit interviews, COBRA, unemployment compensation, downsizing/layoffs/reduction in force
• Recordkeeping & Documentation - Recordkeeping, posters, forms

In addition to all of this real-world compliance guidance, you'll find FAQs for each chapter, sample forms and documents, checklists, definitions, and other helpful tools.

This practical manual is a great help in managing your day-to-day HR issues, establishing the necessary HR policies and procedures, and staying up-to-date on the legal issues that affect trucking companies and private fleets.

720 pages, ISBN 1-59042-443-3.

Because regulations and best practices change frequently, keeping this manual current is essential. The Update Service is the easiest, most economical way! Plus, save big when you subscribe for more than 1 year ... 3- and 5-year subscriptions available at discounted prices!

• HR for Motor Carriers Manual $299.99 [Add to Cart]

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You can deliver professional, high-impact supervisory training presentations in PowerPoint even if you've never worked in PowerPoint. This fully equipped program gives you everything you need, including handouts, to train on 20 essential topics. Free quarterly updates.

• Learn how to communicate HR policies and train supervisors in preventing labor law issues with the Americans with Disabilities Act, FMLA, sexual harassment, and affirmative action laws.
• Forget about the preparation--you can train your supervisors and managers on 20 essential employment law topics with this powerful PowerPoint program.
• Self-explanatory sessions are fully written, designed, and ready to conduct.
• Just choose a topic, "click," and train.
• This comprehensive human resources software breaks down "labor laws land mines" for all your human resource management needs.

Presentations cover topics like:

• Change management
• Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Diversity in the workplace
• Employee motivation
• Employee termination/Discipline and progressive discipline
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• Performance appraisals
• Sexual harassment
• Time management
• Workplace violence and warning signs

• Human Resource Training Presentations in PowerPoint $499.00 [Add to Cart]

Updated!

At last there is a practical guide that makes sense out of federal and state regulations having to do with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The Complete Guide to ADA Compliance delivers plain-English explanations of the federal ADA, its regulations, the numerous policy guidance documents issued by the EEOC and Department of Labor, along with 50 state regulation coverage.

The Complete Guide to ADA Compliance will make it easy for you to:

• Determine when an employee is covered by the ADA, obtain reliable medical certification of disabilities, discuss reasonable accommodations, and choose a reasonable accommodation without running afoul of the law.
• Coordinate leave issues when the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), state workers' compensation laws, and/or the ADA apply. The Guide's easy-to-use leave interplay chart makes comparisons easy.
• Conduct interviews, hire, and terminate employees without fear. Know the disability laws and rules, learn how to document management decisions and avoid discrimination claims.
• Interpret and clarify key ADA issues. Learn how to handle medical examinations, physicals, psychiatric conditions, alcoholism and drug testing, and abuse in the workplace. Plus help on the government's new guidance on intellectual disabilities and hidden disabilities.

One easy-to-use volume contains:

• Well-organized and easy-to-understand ADA compliance guidance.
• Comprehensive breakdown of all 50 state disability laws.
• Model forms, checklists, and policies for your EEO and disability accommodation efforts.
• Full-text regulations, EEOC and DOL Guidance Documents, FAQs, fact sheets, and a handy resource guide of agencies and associations waiting to help you with disability issues.

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A recent class action suit settlement of $10 million dollars between the EEOC and a major U.S. corporation is painful evidence that sexual harassment still plagues our workplaces. The cost of sexual harassment extends beyond the monetary and takes a significant toll on employee morale and retention. The "Sexual Harassment: New Perspectives" training video drives home key training points by focusing on the perspective of the victim. Realistic and subtle scenarios in a variety of work settings clearly demonstrate:

• The negative impact of sexual harassment
• The importance of understanding others’ perspectives
• How to avoid “unintentional” harassment
• The need for victims to speak up

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

• English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
• A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
• Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
• Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
• A printable Leader's Guide
• Resourceful web links to organizations such as OSHA, FEMA, NSC and the CDC, where viewers can download and print information on regulatory standards

Length: 13 minutes

• Sexual Harassment: New Perspectives (Blue Collar Version) - DVD $845.00 [Add to Cart]
• Sexual Harassment: New Perspectives (White Collar Version) - DVD $845.00 [Add to Cart]
• Sexual Harassment: New Perspectives (White Collar Version) DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
• Sexual Harassment: New Perspectives (Blue Collar Version) DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]

For over 20 years, human resource managers have relied on this practical state labor laws resource to understand and stay on top of ever-changing employment regulations in their states. No wonder we’ve heard so many nice names for What to Do About Personnel Problems – we’ve even been called the “HR Bible”!

The HR Red Book delivers clear, straightforward answers to the state labor and HR laws that apply to your organization. It will tell you what all critical human resources regulations mean, what you need to do to comply, and how federal labor laws differ from those in your state – whether you're in California, New York, or North Dakota.

What to Do About Personnel Problems has everything you need for effortless compliance with state and federal employment regulations:

• Plain-English explanations of all key labor laws - by state and by topic
  Learn how your state laws differ from federal law on over 200 key topics. Available for 49 states plus Washington D.C.
• Easy-to-use topic lists speed you to fast answers
  Fully indexed, cross-referenced, with full legal citations without having to know which laws apply. Full regulatory citations if you need them.
• Checklists and HR forms
  You get sample personnel forms, personnel policies, and practical advice to make state compliance and training easier.
• State and regional salary surveys improve your compensation administration
  Exclusive state-specific salary and benefit surveys help you pay fairly.
• Free updates and two monthly newsletters
  Includes monthly National News and State News to keep you updated on human resources current issues and all aspects of employment law.

Covers more than 200 topics including:

• Affirmative Action laws
• Age discrimination
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Background checks
• Child labor
• Civil rights
• Employee benefits
• ERISA
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• FMLA
• Hiring
• Independent contractor agreement
• Job Descriptions
• Labor unions
• Sexual harassment
• Social Security
• Workers' compensation

Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select your specific state when placing the order online.

Studies show training that includes audio and visual elements leads to improved retention.

Make training easy with this set of top Audio CD Click 'n Trains. Just pop a CD into your computer and start training! Get three of our top titles in month one, and a new title every month for the next 11 months! A new training topic every month for a year!

Your first shipment includes a binder with protective sleeves to house this essential training resource. Build up your training library and take the HR labor out of the equation with this unique offer.

You'll get:

• 14 different HR training topics
• High-Quality presentations with enhanced audio talk track
• Professionally narrated presentations
• A new topic every month

Your initial shipment will includes these three titles:

• Sexual Harassment: What Supervisors Need to Know
• FMLA: What Supervisors Need to Know
• FLSA: What Supervisors Need to Know

These are the other hot titles you'll receive throughout the year:

• Workers' Compensation: What Supervisors Need to Know
• COBRA and HIPAA: What Supervisors Need to Know
• Sexual Harassment: What Employees Need to Know
• ADA: What Supervisors Need to Know
• Workplace Violence: How to Prevent and Defuse for Employees
• Diversity: Legal Basics for Supervisors
• Substance Abuse in the Workplace: What Supervisors Need to Know
• Performance Appraisals: How to Conduct Them Legally and Effectively
• New Employee Safety Orientation
• Hiring Legally
• Diversity for All Employees

• Audio Click 'n Train - HR PowerPoint $499.99 [Add to Cart]

Why reinvent the wheel when you can have over 350 expertly written sample personnel policies on 100 HR subjects at your fingertips?

Writing your HR policies couldn't be easier - you simply pick the subject, select the policy that matches your company’s style (from conservative to progressive), modify the policy to meet your organization's needs, and you're ready to go. We've done the research; we've done the writing; and you’re sure your policies meet strict legal requirements.

Prewritten Personnel Policies includes:

• Over 350 customizable policies on over 100 HR topics
  Whatever the topic area, you have sample policies to choose from or adapt
• Choose your options – strict to progressive
  Select the policy version that works best in your work environment - from conservative to progressive
• Easy-to-use looseleaf format
  Three volumes, precisely indexed, so you can find the topic you want quickly and easily
• Avoid legal problems
  Use these carefully reviewed prewritten human resource policies and avoid unexpected legal surprises
• Write your policy manual
  Bonus section shows you step-by-step how to put together an effective policy manual
• Bimonthly updates
  Keeps your policies current with new and revised language

• Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]

Why reinvent the wheel when you can have over 350 expertly written sample personnel policies on 100 HR subjects at your fingertips? Writing your HR policies couldn't be easier - you simply pick the subject, select the policy that matches your company’s style (from conservative to progressive), modify the policy to meet your organization's needs, and you're ready to go. We've done the research; we've done the writing; and you’re sure your policies meet strict legal requirements.

Prewritten Personnel Policies includes:

• Over 350 customizable policies on over 100 HR topics
• Choose your options – strict to progressive
• Select the policy version that works best in your work
• Avoid legal problems
• Write your policy manual
• Bimonthly updates
• Keeps your policies current with new and revised language

• Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - CD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
• Encyclopedia of Prewritten Personnel Policies - Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]

This comprehensive collection of over 350 prewritten personnel policies makes creating a human resource policy manual easy and foolproof. It’s the ideal way to set workplace standards and develop a policy manual that promotes fairness, prevents disputes, and preserves employer and employee rights.

The prewritten HR policies you get will save an incredible amount of time. Choose from a variety of policies on each critical topic - from dress code... to cell phone use... to weather closings (choose between strict, standard, or progressive to match your company’s style). All you have to do is customize, save, and print from your own computer.

SmartPolicies gives you:

• Over 350 prewritten samples of HR policies in over 100 crucial HR subject areas
  Presented in three categories - strict, standard, and progressive - so you can match your company’s style
• Extensive indexing
  Search alphabetically, by topics, or keywords, and find what you’re looking for quickly
• Ability to adapt and customize your policies
  Revise, save, and print right from your own PC
• Quarterly updates
  Keep you up-to-date with constantly changing government regulations

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This practical human resources handbook for the solo practitioner gives you the guidance and tools to run your HR department effectively and efficiently. Whether you're the person new to HR or an HR manager in a solo environment, it will help you perform your HR function with the best of the them.

Includes how to align HR with your company's goals, build credibility and influence, understand HR ethics, cope with management expectations, learn effective staffing strategies, and use HR metrics to prove your contributions.

Practical chapters show you how to get big HR performance with a limited staff:

• Align HR's goals with the company objectives
• Keys to building credibility and influence
• Overview of compliance, federal and state issues, and best practices
• The strategic HR planning process
• Training for organizational excellence
• Prewritten forms, policies, and HR checklists

• Managing an HR Department of One - Binder Version $299.99 [Add to Cart]

The HR Manager's Legal Reporter brings you the practical policies, programs, and advice you need to stay in compliance and avoid human resource-related lawsuits. Tens of thousands of HR managers have relied on this unique resource for over 25 years to find out what's new, what's changed, what works, and, most important, what to do about it. The Reporter delivers clearly written, practical advice on:

• Step-by-step lawsuit prevention
• Policy and program recommendations
• Court decisions
• Federal and state legal developments

• You Be the Judge
  A mini-training session that presents a case where you guess what the court says. Then read the answer with insightful comments.
• Washington Roundup
  What's going on in Washington, in Congress, and the agencies that affects HR managers and employment law.
• Briefs
  Summaries of interesting or significant cases with commentary on how the lessons of the case apply to you.

Created specifically with the new "Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace" booklet, this PowerPoint kit gives you an out of the box training class that is completely done for you.

Explains to all employees the zero tolerance policy concerning all forms of discrimination-sexual, religious, race, age, disability, or national origin. You get 20 employee booklets and a voucher to purchase unlimited copies at an additional 10% savings off the regular discount booklet price. This product can also help to ensure that your company is in compliance with title VII, EPA, and ADEA.

• Kit includes a 30 slide PPT presentation
• Comprehensive speaker notes
• Certificate form that you can customize, print, and personalize with your company's specific requirements.

• Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace PowerPoint Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
• Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace (25 Pack of Handbooks) $49.99 [Add to Cart]

Don't let Prejudice disrupt your company!

We're not supposed to talk about certain sensitive subjects on the job--race, religion, sex, age, physical appearance, physical limitations and ethnicity. But in the 21st century almost every workplace has a diverse workforce so the risk of narrow mindedness can occur.

It's your responsibility to be certain your workplace is free of prejudice and is in compliance with regulations under the Civil Rights Act, Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Talking about respect is the way you can make sure it exists in your workplace.

With this Booklet/PowerPoint kit your employees will get facts in friendly terms. Topics covered:

• Why we need respect in the workplace
• Where does respect come from
• It's the LAW
• Types of discrimination
• How to avoid discrimination & display respect

• It's All About Respect: Avoid Discrimination in Your Workplace PowerPoint Kit $99.99 [Add to Cart]

Are you confident all your supervisors and managers are ready to deal with challenging employees who may need special handling? Are they prepared to control difficult situations? This plug-and-play professional audio presentation will do the talking and training for you.

After training is finished your staff will understand better how challenging employees can affect the department. They will be able to deal effectively with employee problems when they happen. And most importantly they'll know how to use positive strategies to change negative behavior and attitudes.

The main objective of this session is to help your supervisors and managers learn how to manage challenging employees more effectively.

They will review how to:

• Identify challenges associated with supervising difficult employees
• Manage their personal feelings effectively
• Create a positive work environment for all
• Focus on problems, not personalities
• Respond positively to challenging employees and treat them fairly

With How to Manage Challenging Employees you'll have out-of-the-box classroom training that includes:

• A movie-like audio presentation of the PowerPoint presentation
• A fully prepared PowerPoint presentation
• Fully researched and expertly designed safety meetings on this key topic
• Reproducible handouts
• Interactive exercises
• Quizzes to test your employees' knowledge
• Completion certificate to document training
• Trainer's guide

• How to Manage Challenging Employees CNT - PowerPoint w/ Audio $199.99 [Add to Cart]

2010 Edition! 

Uncover potential HR compliance problems before they arise, while making certain each policy is current and provides the best information for your company.

HR audit topics addressed include: How to conduct a self-audit, Affirmative action laws, EEO, Discrimination, Workplace harassment, Termination, Communication, Salary and pay, Discipline, Safety, Health and security, Retirement and pension, Benefits-including 2010 HealthCare Reform, managing flexible work schedules, telecommunting, electronic monitoring, workplace violence. Plus much more.

Each checklist makes reviewing HR policies quick and productive:

• Step-by-step checklists ensure your organization's policies and practices are legal and safe.
• Topic overviews give you the background you need to be sure of your compliance with employment laws.
• Samples Forms included employee evaluation, job analysis interview, interview comments, and more.

Major Topics Covered:

• Human resource policies-now includes Telecommuting
• Recordkeeping
• Job descriptions
• Safety and OSHA -- just added PPE requirements
• Employee benefits
• Employee compensation
• Employee hiring policies
• Performance appraisals