2025 HR Compliance Audit - What Businesses Should know

Compliance with federal and state employment laws and regulations requires an annual review and audit of your employment practices and policies including hiring, firing, wage and hour issues, avoiding discrimination in the workplace, leave of absence issues including FMLA and ADA, and avoiding negating employment-at-will of your employees, etc. Falling short on any of these factors can potentially create significant legal liability for your organization. In this informative webinar our speaker will takes you step-by-step through how to conduct an HR Audit which will provide you with a better understanding of the applicable employment laws and regulations and also provide you with a plan for ensuring compliance with federal and state legal requirements in your HR policies, forms, and other documentation, and management on a day-to-day basis.

Key Areas Covered in the Session

· Problem areas for HR that you need to review to ensure legal compliance.

· Legal pitfalls of hiring that you need to review to ensure you are doing it correctly.

· Review of important policies that must be drafted correctly including Anti-Harassment, FMLA, and Employment-at-Will Policies
Identifying problematic wage and hour issues under the FLSA.

· Ensuring you are in compliance with the revised FLSA proposed regulations.

· Ensuring your practices avoid creating discrimination claims.

· How to identify "red flags" indicating that your current practices and procedures may be creating legal risk for your organization
AND MUCH MORE!

Who Will Benefit

· General Counsel

· HR Professionals

· VP of HR

· In-House Counsel

· Outside Counsel

· Managers

Instructor

Matthew Burr

HR Consultant

Matthew Burr has over 16-years of experience working in the human resources field, starting his career as an Industrial Relations Intern at Kennedy Valve Manufacturing to most recently founding and managing a human resource consulting company; Burr Consulting, LLC, Talentscape, LLC and Co-Owner of Labor Love, a Labor, and Employment Law poster printing company. Prior to founding the consulting firm, the majority of his career was heavy industry manufacturing and healthcare. He specializes in compliance auditing, training labor and employment law, conflict resolution, performance management, labor, and employment relations. Matthew has a generalist background in HR and operations, while providing strategic HR and operational solutions to his clients, focusing on small and medium sized organizations. He works as an Adjunct at Alfred State University, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and The College of St. Rose. He successfully designed an HR Concentration in the business management major that aligned with both SHRM and HRCI certifications, providing opportunities for students to sit for both the SHRM-CP and aPHR certifications upon completion of the degree, concentration, and internship hours as an Assistant Professor of Management at Elmira College (Retired January 2022). Matthew is also the SHRM Certification Exam Instructor, with a current pass rate of 92% on the SHRM-SCP and 83% pass rate on the SHRM-CP and a combined 88% on both exams over a 7-year period of instructing the course (Elmira College, Collin College & The College of St. Rose). Matthew works as a trainer Tompkins Cortland Community College, Corning Community College, Broome Community College, and HR Instructor for Certification Preparation for the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). He also acts as an On-Call Mediator and Factfinder through the Public Employment Relations Board in New York State, working with public sector employers and labor unions.

Credits

Opty learn is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

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