Legal Issues

Give your managers a clear, no-nonsense understanding of the primary legal responsibilities with the Legal Briefs Series. These eight programs deliver practical knowledge—all without mind-numbing "legal speak." Each title focuses on a specific area of law, identifies critical issues and common mistakes and presents managers a range of legal and appropriate actions to take.

The complete training programs includes the following programs:

• Discipline & Termination- This program remedies that with plain-speak language and practical examples that show managers protocol and procedures to follow if they are to stay out of court. In addition to preventing litigation, this information also helps an organization to maintain a quality workforce.(14 minutes)

• Harassment & Discrimination - This program brings them up to speed fast using straightforward language and real-world examples. Managers gain the knowledge, tools and insights they need to protect themselves and their organizations from lawsuits and regulatory actions. (14 minutes)

• Recruiting & Hiring: A Manager’s Guide to Staying Out of Court - This program equips them with the skills they need to avoid legal pitfalls in finding and hiring the right people. Also, it addresses the most common stumbling blocks, including job descriptions, job advertising, interviewing and equal opportunity concerns.14 minutes)

  Substance Abuse The Manager’s Role in Creating & Maintaining a Drug-Free Workplace - This program helps managers deal with the tough problems involving substance abuse in the workplace. Help your managers legally maintain a safe, drug-free work environment on and offsite. (17 minutes)

• The ADA: Tough Questions & Straight Answers - This program provides accurate legal information to help managers understand what is expected of them, how to sort through the tough issues and respond effectively. Your managers will get a better grasp of how the Act impacts them and find key answers to their most frequently asked questions.

• The Family & Medical Leave Act: What Every Manager Should Know - This program offers practical and clear examples that help eliminate confusion. Managers gain an understanding of what constitutes qualifying for a leave based on a serious health condition or medical certification. (15 minutes)

• Workplace Privacy: Does It Really Exist? - This program examines employees’ right to privacy and your organization’s rights to protect its information and property. Managers will learn how to effectively and legally establish, document, communicate and enforce policies regarding privacy.(16 minutes)

  - Workplace Violence: The Legal Role in Keeping Your Workplace Safe - This program explores preventive measures and examines the legal obligations of managers and their organizations. Topics include hiring policies, appropriate responses to angry outbursts, dealing with employee threats, procedures for investigating rumors and the importance of maintaining confidentiality. (17 minutes)

  Each programs includes: 1 DVD, Facilitator Guide (with multiple agenda options), Ten Desk Reference Guides, Online Program Resources and Trainer Pack

  $2,995.00 [Add to Cart]

Binder/Newsletter

This one resource covers every state and federal employment law--just pick a topic and you'll get the answers you need. Compares federal and state laws to ensure full compliance. Free quarterly updates.

• Get employment law answers you need quickly with this essential desktop reference on labor law.
• Includes all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and all aspects of employment law.
• Easy-to-read charts put federal and state employment laws side by side so you can conduct a quick comparison.

• Quick Guide to Employment Law $299.99 [Add to Cart]

This "plain-English" state-specific reference guide makes complying with employment laws easy. The 2007 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

• 2007 Employment Law Guide $299.99 [Add to Cart]

Do Your Supervisors Need Better Hiring and Discipline Skills?

Easy Trainer Series in Microsoft PowerPoint gives you customizable, easy-to-use training sessions on key employment topics. This CD-ROM gives you the PowerPoint meeting outlines to train your supervisors to make smarter decisions on Hiring, Discipline & Termination.

You Get:

• Prewritten Speaker's notes that make you an instant trainer
• Quizzes that test your supervisors' knowledge before and after training
• Certificates of completion that can be printed to document training
• Reproducible handouts and training outlines in PowerPoint

The Easy Trainer:Hiring, Discipline & Termination PowerPoint on CD-ROM covers: Job Descriptions

• Interviewing
• Nondiscriminatory Hiring
• New Employee Orientation
• Turnover
• Alternative Work Arrangements
• Performance Appraisal
• Challenging Employees
• Progressive Discipline
• Measuring Job Performance
• Grounds for Termination
• Employee Theft

• Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination $399.99 [Add to Cart]

Experts Share What Every Manager Should Know About the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

This program is designed to help managers gain a clearer understanding of how Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act impacts their workplace on a daily basis. It provides accurate legal information in clear and concise terms and is intended to provide useful information so managers can sort through tough ADA issues, and take the right actions.

• The program addresses frequently asked questions such as:
• Does the ADA require me to hire an individual just because they are disabled?
• Am I required to give preference to a qualified individual with a disability?
• Am I required to shift essential job functions to other employees to provide reasonable accommodation?
• What is the appropriate way to deal with a disabled employee having performance problems?

Support materials for the ADA module include:

• Facilitator Guide
• Pre-session assessment
• Post-session assessment
• 10-pk, Manager's Desk Reference Guide (Additional Guides: $49.95/10-pk)

Key Learning Points:

• Know the primary purpose of the ADA
• Understand key ADA concepts like: Reasonable
• Accommodation, Essential Function and Qualified
• Individual With A Disability
• Learn five actions you can take regularly to help insure compliance with the ADA

Complete Training Kit Components:

• DVD (full length video, companion SMART-START® Employment Law: The Manager and The Law, interview with subject-matter expert, Ted Williams and TrainerTALK™ with Sue Mueller)
• VHS (15 minutes)
• Facilitator Guide (multiple agenda options)
• Ten Desk Reference Guides
• Online Program Resources
• Trainer Pack

• The ADA: Tough Questions & Straight Answers (Complete Kit) $695.00 [Add to Cart]
• The ADA: Tough Questions & Straight Answers - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

This essential ongoing newsletter service keeps safety professionals current on what's new in OSHA and safety compliance and delivers solid advice on how to comply with all of the complex regulations. Delivered twice monthly.

• The ultimate OSHA compliance newsletter for late-breaking information on OSHA regulations, OSHA news, OSHA safety checklists, OSHA forms, and more.
• Join leading safety professionals who count on OSHA Compliance Advisor to deliver accurate and timely news, advice, and analysis on key safety issues.
• This workplace safety newsletter service is delivered to you twice monthly. It keeps you in full compliance and saves you time, work, and money!
• Back issue safety articles cover topics like anthrax, injury prevention, and workplace safety. Our attorneys, researchers, and journalists are constantly researching impending changes that can affect your organization. No need to research new OSHA regulations--we're already doing all the work for you.

This easy-to-use CD-Rom gives you everything you need to prepare and deliver great safety meetings--in just minutes. Includes over 100 safety topics, along with prewritten outlines, handouts, quizzes, and more.

Free quarterly updates first year.

• Everything you need to give effective safety meetings and cut down on the preparation time. Safety meeting topics include Osha, ergonomics, welding, scaffolding, and more.
• This best-selling program makes preparing for your next safety meeting a snap.
• Simply load in the CD-ROM and the ready-to-use program walks you through the 4 easy steps to prepare your safety meeting.
• You get handouts, quizzes, speaker's notes, safety meeting outlines everything you need to run an effective safety program.
• Meet Osha training requirements quickly and efficiently with this training resource on one convenient CD-ROM.

Binder / Newsletter

Get the solutions to personnel problems in YOUR state with this outstanding state-specific resource. This product covers over 100 key personnel areas--indexed by HR topic and includes two monthly newsletters. Free updates 6 times per year.

• This human resource management reference is a comprehensive tool for solving HR issues and ensuring compliance with state and federal employment law.
• Get clear, straightforward answers surrounding the federal and state human resource laws that apply to your organization--find out what they mean and how to comply.
• You won't find another resource with such a comprehensive collection of state human resource laws along with expert analysis of labor law issues.
• Our customers find this human resource development tool absolutely essential in keeping up with ever-changing HR regulations.
• You get sample personnel forms, personnel policies, and human resource articles designed to make compliance and training easier for you!

A staff of experienced HR professionals has created this essential desk book with a plain-English explanation of every angle of FMLA, ADA, workers' compensation, plus the immediate help you need to ensure compliance. Count on this resource to help you navigate these laws successfully.

Created by employment law experts, this unique and practical handbook provides prewritten checklists that help spot and correct compliance problems before they become costly lawsuits. You get checklists on HR policies, job descriptions, safety and OSHA, compensation programs, hiring practices, performance measurement, and much, much more.

New 6.0 Version

Write, Publish and Maintain Customized Employment Policies

Policies Now easy-to-use Q&A process prompts you to consider issues that may have otherwise been overlooked, ensuring highly customized, legally- compliant employment policies.

Employee handbooks are crucial to the success of any business. And Policies Now is the simplest way to create personnel policies customized to your organization. With Policies Now you can create an entire employee handbook in a fraction of the time you would normally spend.

Employee lawsuits are on the rise. And should an employee dispute erupt into litigation, your personnel policies will be among the first documents to be subpoenaed. With Policies Now, you'll have a legally appropriate employee handbook that's specific to your business -- not just a collection of "canned policies" with your company name on them.

Any labor law attorney will tell you that unclear or poorly written personnel policies could cost you thousands of dollars in court. And if you have no policies at all? Well, you're just asking for trouble.

Whether your organization is large or small, Policies Now can help you achieve the kind of professional results you would expect from high priced attorneys or consultants - but with a lot less time, effort and money.

• Policies Now 6.0 $189.99 [Add to Cart]

Office and Industrial scenes.

Even though the percentage of commercial drivers who use drugs or alcohol is low, it only takes one driver to cause a major disaster. That's why the Department of Transportation now mandates drug and alcohol testing. This program explains the drug and alcohol testing system to supervisors and employees and will help alleviate their fears.

• Random drug and alcohol testing
• Pre-employment, post-accident, return-to-duty and follow-up testing
• Security and false positives

Length: 20 minutes; includes ten employee handbooks.

• D.O.T. Drug and Alcohol Testing - Video $425.00 [Add to Cart]
• D.O.T. Drug and Alcohol Testing - VHS Spanish $425.00 [Add to Cart]
• D.O.T. Drug and Alcohol Testing - Video Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

This is part II of a four-part of the Diversity Series that uses dramatizations, workforce interviews, and discussions with experts to provide a broad-based look at diversity from a wide range of perspectives. This is perhaps the most comprehensive training available on this subject.

In this video your audience confronts stereotypical definitions of gays, lesbians, men and women. Real people share their values, perspectives and workplace experiences relating to gender and sexual orientation.

Includes 20 minute video or DVD, reproducible leader's guide and partipant workbook.

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.

• Diversity Series: Gender and Sexual Orientation Workplace - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
• Diversity Series: Gender and Sexual Orientation Workplace - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

This program uses dramatizations, workforce interviews, and discussions with experts to provide a broad-based look at diversity from a wide range of perspectives. This is perhaps the most comprehensive training available on this subject.

Real people share their experiences and perspectives on the key issues surrounding age and physical ability. A panel of legal experts clarifies the intent and principal provisions of the ADA.

Includes 20 minute dvd or video, reproducible leader's guide and partipant workbook.

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.

• Diversity Series: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
• Diversity Series: Age and Physical Ability Workplace Issues - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]

This is part III of a four-part Diversity Training Series that uses dramatizations, workforce interviews, and discussions with experts to provide a broad-based look at diversity from a wide range of perspectives.

This is perhaps the most comprehensive training available on this subject. Now viewers see the often hurtful stereotypes, which have divided people along racial, ethnic and religious lines for centuries. A team of nationally recognized attorneys addresses the EEO issues. This video a very powerful dramatization.

Includes 20 minute DVD or video, reproducible leader's guide and partipant workbook.

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.

• Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - DVD $625.00 [Add to Cart]
• Diversity Series: Race, Ethnicity, Language and Religion Workplace Issues - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]