Affirmative Action & EEOC

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 2008 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

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

• 2008 Employment Law Guide $399.99 [Add to Cart]

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]
• California Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment Guide (Pack of 50) $299.50 [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 $199.99 [Add to Cart]

With the Discrimination Awareness Program you'll receive a management guide along with a training CD. The guide explains complex discrimination laws in easy- to-understand terms and gives you valuable insight on how to handle certain situations like hiring, training, employee discipline, investigating complaints, and more - all to help you gain a better understanding of discrimination and how to respond to a situation before it becomes a lawsuit.

The 250-page management guide features an easy-to-follow format and helps you quickly reference information on:

• Discrimination defined - What it is and the types, unlawful discrimination vs. plain offensiveness, regulatory references, Title VII vs. state laws, hostile environment discrimination vs. quid pro quo, EEOC relationship, penalties, discrimination vs. diversity, making accomodations vs. prevention.
• The hiring process - What can and can't be said in an interview, what to put on applications, Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), background checks and testing.
• Training employees and supervisors - Supervisor training on awareness, handling complaints and investigations, interviewing. Employee training on awareness and diversity.
• Handling complaints - Who to involve in the paperwork and documentation, how to respond.
• Investigating a complaint - Process involved in an investigation, who should be involved, questions to ask, who to interview, confidentiality, interim actions, responding to a discrimination charge.
• State requirements - State-by-state guide on the differences from federal law, state agency contacts Forms, policies, and checklists - Interview questions, EEOC guidelines, witness statements, letters, and more.

Plus, the guide is attorney-reviewed so you can feel confident in the decisions you make.

The training CD includes an overview, agenda, PowerPoint presentation, exercises, quizzes and handouts for training. Use these tools as-is or add company specific information to introduce organization policies and procedures into your training. You'll find three different training tracks for supervisors, employees, and new employee orientation. Click the Learn More link below to see what each track covers.

250 pages. Copyright 2007.

$399.99 [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]
• HR for Motor Carriers Manual (1-Year Update Service) $324.99 [Add to Cart]
• HR for Motor Carriers Manual (3-Year Update Service) $539.99 [Add to Cart]
• HR for Motor Carriers Manual (5-Year Update Service) $689.99 [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

Designed to meet the unique compliance needs of HR professionals, The Human Resources Management Guide 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 specific HR issues like employee compensation, recruiting, COBRA, harassment, and unemployment compensation. Plus, the guide is attorney-reviewed so you can feel confident in the decisions you make.

The Human Resources Management Guide features an easy-to-follow format and helps you quickly reference information on:

• Management - Organizational design/structure, environmental scanning, ROI of HR, HR audits, government contracts, succession planning, 360 degree feedback
• Hiring - Job analysis, job descriptions, recruiting, recruiting on the internet, interviewing, immigration, background checks, FTC rules regarding disposal of background check info, 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 and hours, pay administration, job evaluation
• Benefits - Mandated (Social Security, Medicare, FMLA, etc.), voluntary (health care, disability, deferred compensation, retirement, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, etc.), ERISA considerations; includes USERRA poster/notice
• Employee Relations - Retention strategies, performance reviews, work/life balance (flexible scheduling, dependent care, etc.), wellness, discipline, training, employee development, labor relations
• Discrimination and Employee Protection - Discrimination, diversity, whistleblower, polygraphs, drug testing, privacy, retaliation.
• Safety and Security - Workplace safety, workplace security, security cameras, workplace violence, emergency procedures/preparedness.
• Workers' Compensation - MOD rate, proactive prevention, medical management, rehabilitation, fraud
• Employee Separation - Exit interviews, COBRA, unemployment compensation, downsizing/layoffs/reduction in force
• Recordkeeping and Documentation -Recordkeeping, posters, forms
• Driver Issues - Unique issues affecting the CMV drivers that go above and beyond HR-related issues of your other employees

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 handy guide 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 your company.

735 pages

Because regulations and best practices change frequently, keeping this guide current is essential. The Keller's 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!

• Human Resources Management Guide: An Essential Tool for Managing Day-to-Day HR Responsibilities $299.99 [Add to Cart]
• Human Resources Management Guide: An Essential Tool for Managing Day-to-Day HR Responsibilities (3-Year Update Service) $539.99 [Add to Cart]
• Human Resources Management Guide: An Essential Tool for Managing Day-to-Day HR Responsibilities (1-Year Update Service) $324.99 [Add to Cart]
• Human Resources Management Guide: An Essential Tool for Managing Day-to-Day HR Responsibilities (5-Year Update Service) $699.99 [Add to Cart]

As organizations move into the new millennium, they are experiencing change at an unprecedented rate. These leaner, reengineered organizations face critical challenges in facilitating the learning necessary for their employees to keep ahead.

Managers, supervisors and team leaders, whether new to their positions or with years of experience, are under pressure to come to grips with the skills needed to lead their organizations into the next century. MILLENNIUM - Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century is a powerful new resource to help them meet these challenges.

Series Objectives:

MILLENNIUM - Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century is an 8 part training series (7 parts outside the US) designed to assist managers, supervisors and team leaders in their efforts to draw a bridge between the management skills they need and the leadership concepts their organizations are embracing. (Each capsule is 15 minutes duration.)

• Capsule #1 - Leadership Is... is the overview module. Here we explore the language and concepts of leadership. Topics include: What is a leader? Leadership and management. Who can be a leader? Becoming a leader. Leaders and followers. Why lead?
• Capsule #2 - The Leader as Coach investigates the coaching skills which are vital to any organization's learning and success. Topics include: Coaching in the 21st century organization. What does a coach do? Effective coaching. Who can coach whom? The leader as coach.
• Capsule #3 - The Leader as Mentor. In the fast changing world of the new organization, mentoring has become essential for preserving and passing down the history, culture and experience senior managers have accumulated. Topics include: Mentoring in the 21st century organization. What does a mentor do? Effective mentoring. Getting started. The leader as mentor.
• Capsule #4 - How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback explores the skills needed to support employee development in learning organizations. Topics include: The fear factor. What is performance feedback? How do you best provide performance feedback? Who should provide feedback to whom? Feedback and Leadership.
• Capsule #5 - Beginning Employment Relationships. The 21st century organization requires different kinds of relationships with employees. Topics include: Employment interviews. What you need to know about ... the position you're hiring for; the candidate you're interviewing; yourself. Preparing for the interview. The interview. The leader's responsibility.
• Capsule #6 - Ending Employment Relationships. The reasons why employees leave organizations are many and complex. Some are performance related, others are not. In either case, the termination process doesn't have to be traumatic. Topics include: Why employment relationships end. Inappropriate termination. Alternatives. Termination procedures. After the relationship ends.
• Capsule #7 - In Compliance is a quick course in the complex world of EEO compliance issues. Topics include: What is EEO? Affirmative action? Diversity? What is a protected class? Three types of discrimination. What is harassment? Leadership and compliance. This program is most suitable for American organizations.
• Capsule #8 - Coaching & Performance Feedback Training Scenes consists of 8 dramatizations. Each training scenario begins by setting up a coaching or performance feedback situation culminating at a Decision Point. Here you are presented with 3 options as to how the scene should continue. These options are then played out and the consequences of the choices made are explored by a panel of management and human resource experts.

  Support Materials

  Each capsule comes complete with a 3 part guide. Part 1 lays out ideas for reflection. Part 2 is a self-study guide with questions to focus learning. Part 3 offers activities and exercises for use in facilitated training. The guides can be reproduced to provide each participant with support materials at no additional charge.

  Also available in Spanish and French

  • Millennium Leadership Capsules For the 21st Century (DVD Set) $3,350.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Millennium Leadership Capsules For the 21st Century - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

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.

• The Complete Guide to ADA Compliance $399.99 [Add to Cart]

In Compliance is a quick course in the complex world of EEO compliance issues. Topics include: What is EEO? Affirmative action? Diversity? What is a protected class? Three types of discrimination. What is harassment? The millennium_leadership. Leadership and compliance. This program is most suitable for American organizations.

Support Materials

Each capsule comes complete with a 3 part guide. Part 1 lays out ideas for reflection. Part 2 is a self-study guide with questions to focus learning. Part 3 offers activities and exercises for use in facilitated training. The guides can be reproduced to provide each participant with support materials at no additional charge.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

(7 Program Set)

As organizations move into the new millennium, they are experiencing change at an unprecedented rate. These leaner, reengineered organizations face critical challenges in facilitating the learning necessary for their employees to keep ahead.

Managers, supervisors and team leaders, whether new to their positions or with years of experience, are under pressure to come to grips with the skills needed to lead their organizations into the next century. MILLENNIUM - Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century is a powerful new resource to help them meet these challenges.

Series Objectives:

MILLENNIUM - Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century is a 7-part training series (6 parts outside the US) designed to assist managers, supervisors and team leaders in their efforts to draw a bridge between the management skills they need and the leadership concepts their organizations are embracing. There is an additional program of Coaching & Performance Feedback training scenes to compliment the series.

• Capsule #1 - Leadership Is... is the overview module. Here we explore the language and concepts of leadership. Topics include: What is a leader? Leadership and management. Who can be a leader? Becoming a leader. Leaders and followers. Why lead?
• Capsule #2 - The Leader as Coach investigates the coaching skills which are vital to any organization's learning and success. Topics include: Coaching in the 21st century organization. What does a coach do? Effective coaching. Who can coach whom? The leader as coach.
• Capsule #3 - The Leader as Mentor. In the fast changing world of the new organization, mentoring has become essential for preserving and passing down the history, culture and experience senior managers have accumulated. Topics include: Mentoring in the 21st century organization. What does a mentor do? Effective mentoring. Getting started. The leader as mentor.
• Capsule #4 - How Leaders Provide Performance Feedback explores the skills needed to support employee development in learning organizations. Topics include: The fear factor. What is performance feedback? How do you best provide performance feedback? Who should provide feedback to whom? Feedback and Leadership.
• Capsule #5 - Beginning Employment Relationships.The 21st century organization requires different kinds of relationships with employees. Topics include: Employment interviews. What you need to know about ... the position you're hiring for; the candidate you're interviewing; yourself. Preparing for the interview. The interview. The leader's responsibility.
• Capsule #6 - Ending Employment Relationships. The reasons why employees leave organizations are many and complex. Some are performance related, others are not. In either case, the termination process doesn't have to be traumatic. Topics include: Why employment relationships end. Inappropriate termination. Alternatives. Termination procedures. After the relationship ends.
• Capsule #7 - In Compliance is a quick course in the complex world of EEO compliance issues. Topics include: What is EEO? Affirmative action? Diversity? What is a protected class? Three types of discrimination. What is harassment? The millennium_leadership. Leadership and compliance. This program is most suitable for American organizations.
• Coaching & Performance Feedback Training Scenes is an additional resource that consists of 8 dramatizations. Each training scenario begins by setting up a coaching or performance feedback situation culminating at a Decision Point. Here you are presented with 3 options as to how the scene should continue. These options are then played out and the consequences of the choices made are explored by a panel of management and human resource experts.

Support Material

Each capsule comes complete with a 3 part guide. Part 1 lays out ideas for reflection. Part 2 is a self-study guide with questions to focus learning. Part 3 offers activities and exercises for use in facilitated training. The guides can be reproduced to provide each participant with support materials at no additional charge.

Streamed Online Video Training Optional:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access.

Streamed Video Pricing:

• 1 to 1000 $6 per person
• 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
• More than 3000 users contact Business Training Media
• * Minimum order for any one program $395.00

Learn more about our streamed video training over the web.

• Millennium: Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century - DVD $2,999.00 [Add to Cart]
• Millennium: Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century - VHS $2,999.00 [Add to Cart]
• Millennium: Leadership Capsules for the 21st Century - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

Claims of harassment against employers - sexual and other types of illegal harassment - continue to rise. However, there are many steps employers can take to prevent illegal harassment in the workplace and to protect the company if an employee files a lawsuit.

This step-by-step guide will show you how to develop a policy against harassment, conduct an investigation when a sexual harassment complaint is made, and train employees and managers to recognize and respond to harassing conduct in the workplace.

Included in the manual:

• Easy to use sample polices, checklists, and training materials with quizzes
• Copies of the federal laws and EEOC guidance on sexual harassment
• Important state by state compliance information

• Sexual Harassment Essentials of Prevention and Response Guide $399.99 [Add to Cart]

How pervasive is sexual harassment? Consider that more than 13,000 formal complaints are filed each year with the EEOC. Developed with leading legal experts, this program educates your workforce to help your organization prevent such complaints. Through a series of compelling scenarios, employees learn to recognize sexual harassment and respond immediately to eliminate it from their workplace.

Learning Point Highlights:

• Identifies the most common forms of sexual harassment
• Explains what to do if one witnesses or is a target of sexual harassment
• Instructs how to resolve situations before they get out of control

Complete Training Kit Components: DVD, VHS (17 minutes, Facilitator Guide, Reproducible Participant Materials, Reproducible Self-Study Guide, Online Program Resources and Trainer Pack

• Sexual Harassment: It Can Happen Here - Complete Kit $995.00 [Add to Cart]
• Sexual Harassment: It Can Happen Here - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]