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Quick Guide to Employment Law

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.

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Behavior Description Interviewing (Trainers Package)

The best predictor of future performance is past performance in similar situations. This skill-building workshop will teach your managers how to get the most useful responses from candidates - responses about actual performance in past jobs and accomplish ments in specific work situations. This type of information - Behavior Description - greatly increases your ability to predict whether a candidate will be the top performer your organization is looking for.

Published research shows that interviewers trained in Behavior Description interviewing make hiring decisions that are two to five times more accurate than traditionally trained interviewers. Isn't it worth one day of training to make sure your managers h ave the skills to implement this method in your organization?

Workshop Objectives

  • Improve the quality of workforce by teaching managers how to select qualified new hires who are well-suited to their positions.
  • Integrate managers' current interviewing practices with a Behavior Description Interviewing method.
  • Establish a standardized and systematic method for comparing applicants based on their interview responses.

Time Guidelinesd: The workshop takes 8 hours to complete.

The Trainer's Package consists of: 1 Trainer's Guide (250 pages, 3-Ring Binder) - contains notes for the trainer, transparency masters, and copies of all participant materials. 1 Video (59 Minutes) - Supports the trainer with examples and vignettes which demonstrate the Behavior Description Interviewing method. 4 Small-Group Facilitator's Guides (16 Page Booklet) - One small-group facilitator is recommended for each 4-5 participants in the program to ensure proper transfer of skills. This guide contains everything the facilitator will need to support par ticipants in terms of the structure, purpose and process of the exercises. 10 Behavior Description Interview Patterns.

  • Behavior Description Interviewing (Trainers Package) $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Behavior Description Interviewing (Participant's Package) $69.99 [Add to Cart]
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What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder

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.

 

  • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder $399.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] on CD-ROM $399.00 [Add to Cart]
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Official Trucking Safety Guide

Thousands of customers trust this timesaving guide. You should too!

  • Eliminates the need to check multiple sources for state-specific information
  • Reduces the chance of state-level fines
  • Keeps you current on changing state-level regulations

In one handy reference you get current U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, summaries of each state's exceptions to and additions to the federal rules, agency contacts, sample forms and proposed regulatory changes.

Covers critical areas of compliance including: driver qualification, hours of service, accident reporting, size/weight limits and inspections and maintenance.

Loose-leaf, 3-ring bound. 1,175 pages.

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The Complete Guide to ADA Compliance

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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Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Instructor's Guide

Everyone these days is talking about “coaching.” But do your employees understand what “coaching” really means? More importantly, do they practice it regularly?

The workshop is organized into four sections. Sectionone helps participants understand their own coaching style, “read” the needs of others, identify the learning styles of others and set the climate for coaching. Section two focuses on how to assess alternative coaching methods and determine when and where to coach. Section three tackles how to create the time and opportunity to coach and find opportunities to build relationships. In four, participants will learn how to encourage communication and feedback, develop a long-term monitoring plan and review and adjust as they go. 

The Instructor’s Guide contains all you need to conduct a workshop – introductory notes, a suggested timetable, background notes, a trainer’s checklist, course notes, action planning and evaluation forms and a CD with PowerPoint slide masters. 

Instructor's Guide

  • Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Instructor's Guide $179.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Participant Book $29.99 [Add to Cart]
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Cultural and Diversity Awareness Facilitators Guide Kit

The Cultural Diversity and Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals and different backgrounds in their organization.

  • Cultural and Diversity Awareness Facilitators Guide Kit $149.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Cultural and Diversity Awareness Profile-5 Pack $49.95 [Add to Cart]
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Quick Step Guide to Hiring, Firing, Appraisal, and Discipline

QuikStep guides tell you what to do, how to do it, what to say, when to say it. All QuikStep guides feature a simple step-by-step solution with detailed instructions, samples, tips, and checklists. This bundle offer allows you to receive all 4 titles to help deliver top HR performance.

With one low price you will receive:

QuikStep Guide to Hiring
Learn how to attract, identify, and select the right person. Special sections detail the interview process, how to perform effective reference checks, and how to make an offer your top candidate can't refuse.

QuikStep Guide to Firing
This guide will help you plan and carry out the actual termination meeting, wtih sample scripts. Also provides you with key questions to ask before you take action so that you avoid legal problems.

QuikStep Guide to Appraisal
A step-by-step system that makes appraisals an effective motivating tool for every employee.

QuikStep Guide to Discipline
This guide takes you step-by-step through publizing expectations, how to conduct face-to-face sessions, and how to document to avoid future lawsuits.

  • Quick Step Guide to Hiring, Firing, Appraisal, and Discipline $79.99 [Add to Cart]
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1910 OSHA Guide

Using this convenient reference, you'll have quick access to OSHA's word-for-word Part 1910 workplace safety regulations.

The 1910 OSHA Guide is tab-divided for easy searching ... it's designed to help you find key OSHA requirements and make sure you're complying with them.

Some of the workplace safety topics covered include:

  • hazard communication
  • forklift safety
  • machine guarding
  • electrical safety
  • personal protective equipment

A detailed subject index will simplify your searches for Part 1910 regs and large type makes for easy reading. Part 1903 and 1904 regs are also included.

Loose-leaf, 3-ring bound, 1,039 pages.

ISBN 0-934674-70-1

Because regulations and best practices change frequently, keeping this guide 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!

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7-Minute Safety Trainer - Binder

This prewritten modular safety training system gives you everything you need to conduct solid safety training--in just 7 minutes! Includes reproducible employee handouts, quizzes and checklists along with recordkeeping and attendance sheets.

Key Topices Include:

  • Confined Spaces
  • Electrical Safety
  • Fire Safety and Emergency Response
  • HAZCOM
  • Machine Safety and Other Equipment
  • Material Handling Safety
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Personal Safety
  • Safety Awareness
  • Safety and Security Measurest
  • Workplace Hazards

Free quarterly updates first year.

  • This safety guide encompasses 50 occupational health and safety training topics.
  • When it's time to schedule your next safety meeting, use the resource that's done all the work for you! With 7-Minute Safety Trainer, you have everything you need.
  • Select from over 50 key safety topics, then copy the prewritten training materials and you're ready to go! It's short, to-the-point, and effective.
  • Each trainer outline has a targeted goal to comply with specific OSHA safety regulations. The sessions are organized into logical and concise steps that contribute to cutting down on training time.

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Competent Supervisors Questionnaire Facilitators Guide

Today’s supervisors face far greater challenges than any of their predecessors. The good news is that they need master only five basic skills to excel in their roles and progress to higher levels of responsibility.

Here’s a tool you can use to help supervisors identify their strengths in these key areas and the skills they need to improve upon:

  • Set direction
  • Plan and organize
  • Coach/develop people
  • Measure and manage performance
  • Maintain effective relationships

The self-scoring questionnaire can be completed in just a few minutes. Participants review 25 typical workplace scenarios and choose the actions they would take in these situations. The booklet includes rich interpretation and planning notes to help participants transform what they’ve learned into a plan for developing their own effective supervisory style.

Sample scenarios:

  • You have just been appointed to a supervisory role for a team of people that you have not met before. They have a reputation for being difficult to manage.
  • Two members of your team have not been collaborating well in recent months and even have had a few public arguments.
  • Some 360-degree feedback from team members you have recently received suggests that you could do a little more to listen attentively.
  • An enterprise-wide directive requires every team to cut costs by 10 percent over the next six months.

  • Competent Supervisors Questionnaire Facilitators Guide $149.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Competent Supervisors Questionnaire 5-Pack $49.95 [Add to Cart]
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Effective Supervisor Training Repros - Binder

Now it's easy to help your supervisors achieve top levels of competence and productivity with these pre-written training sessions on topics ranging from team building to time management. You get 25 ready-to-use training sessions. Free quarterly updates.

  • This program provides everything you need to conduct effective training for your supervisors on key topics such as Motivation...Performance Appraisals...Effective Communication...and much more.
  • You pick the topic, make enough copies to hand out to each supervisor, and begin the training. It's quick. It's easy. And it works.

  • Effective Supervisor Training Repros - Binder $299.99 [Add to Cart]
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment

Learn how to protect your employees as well as your company from sexual harassment. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment approaches the issue globally, from creating policy statements on sexual harassment and conducting employee audits to determine vulnerabilities (and appropriate cures), to the five A's of understanding, to handling and dealing with stereotypes and biases. The pocket guide also covers the investigation process and how to properly document incidents; it also includes exercises to instill ownership and facilitate understanding among employees to generate commitment to harassment prevention.

  • Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment $22.99 [Add to Cart]
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Sales Training Repros - Binder

Improve your sales force to yield more substantial results with comprehensive training. Sales Training Repros provides practical training on basic skills in the key areas of communications, sales techniques, and the sales process.

The illustrated, reproducible handouts bring your training to life. Plus, all the step-by-step sales force training tips and materials will make preparation simple and training effective.

You get everything you need for instant, effective sales for training:

  • Complete, prewritten lesson plans
  • Reproducible handouts
  • Quizzes
  • Attendance sheets
  • Product/Service summary sheet


Topics covered include:
  • Making the Sale
  • Cold Calling
  • Setting Goals to Reach Success
  • Defining the Steps of your sale
  • What's Your Personal Selling Style

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Construction Regulatory Guide

Get over 1,000 pages of up-to-date Part 1926 and applicable 1910 regulations in one easy-to-use source.

Part 1926 and applicable 1910 regulations at your fingertips! Printed in large type for easy reading, this comprehensive guide provides the requirements for key areas of compliance, including: steel erection, fall protection, scaffolding, personal protective equipment, recording and reporting occupational injuries and illnesses, and electrical safety. Tab-divided by subject for quick and easy reference.

Loose-leaf, 3-ring bound, 1,156 pages.

Update service available separately. Updated twice a year, in April and October.

Because regulations and best practices change frequently, keeping this guide 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!

  • Construction Regulatory Guide $299.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Construction Regulatory Guide (1-Year Update Service) $339.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Construction Regulatory Guide (3-Year Update Service) $579.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Construction Regulatory Guide (5-Year Update Service) $699.99 [Add to Cart]