Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Originally presented on January 30, 2007

Many HR professionals agree, hands down, that California imposes more legal and regulatory burdens on employers than any other state in the country.

In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger and the California legislature kept that tradition alive by passing a wide range of new employment-related statutes and rules. These changes affect everything from minimum-wage levels and sexual harassment prevention training for supervisors to your workers' overtime pay records and their use of cell phones when they're driving on the job. Do you know the new HR laws and rules that go into effect starting in 2007? Are you 100 percent confident that you're ready to comply with them?

This 90-minute audio conference created especially for California employers explains (in plain English) the brand-new laws and rules you need to know about. You'll learn how to gauge whether these changes apply to your workplace, as well as the practical steps you can take immediately to be sure you're in compliance. And, we'll preview the hottest HR issues on the legislature's radar in 2007, so that you'll be ready for new employment laws that may be coming down the road soon.

YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES WILL LEARN:

• The 2007 changes to HR-related laws and regulations for California employers
• Effective strategies for complying with the new rules
• How to manage the new two-step increase in California's minimum wage levels, and what the future may hold for additional increases
• The newest updates to your obligations under A.B. 1825, the sexual harassment training law
• The best ways to comply with new regulations governing how you account for overtime hours on employees' pay stubs
• Whether proposed California legislation that failed to pass in 2006 - from single-payer health insurance to higher penalties for gender pay equity violations—could come back to haunt you down the road

ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER:

Michelle La Mar, Esq., is a partner in the Los Angeles office of law firm Loeb & Loeb. She co-chairs the firm's employment and labor law group. Her practice comprises both counseling and litigation representing employers, with an emphasis on preventive measures. She routinely advises California-based employers in conjunction with wage and hour issues, downsizings, terminations, harassment investigations, mandated leaves of absence, disability accommodation requirements and employment-related issues associated with mergers and acquisitions. La Mar's practice also includes the drafting and updating of handbooks, policy manuals, codes of conduct, executive employment agreements, and severance packages. She earned her law degree from Loyola Law School.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hour toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

How Do Audio Conferences Work?

An audio conference is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office using a regular telephone. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions'either on the phone or via e-mail.

With your registration, you also receive conference materials with additional practical information from California Employer Advisor sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference.

Why You Can Sign Up To Attend This Event with Confidence

As with all California Employer Advisor products, you're completely protected. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with this audio conference, simply let us know and we will return your entire registration fee.