Events

It’s time to hire a new employee, but where do you start?  This workshop will review the initial stages of the hiring process:  develop a job posting, evaluate and decide where to post, working with recruiters, determining who is an applicant, evaluating applicants, applicant and candidate communication, and creating a pool for selection.  This workshop is part of a series addressing challenges in the hiring process.  Next in this series are Select the Best and Paperwork Requirements for New Hires.

Please join the San Diego Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities as we provide additional tools for your company or organization to increase hiring and retain valued employees in the future! The event is a free training offered around the different topics related to hiring and employing people with disabilities.

Stepping into the role of a new manager or supervisor can be overwhelming on many levels.  Leadership and communication are often a huge part of the process but what about personal liability?  This course will cover wage and hour issues, leave of absences, hiring and termination processes as well as discrimination and harassment issues that aren’t singularly a liability to the company, but can also be potential personal liability for a manager or supervisor.

It’s time to hire a new employee, but where do you start? This workshop will review the initial stages of the hiring process: develop a job posting, evaluate and decide where to post, working with recruiters, determining who is an applicant, evaluating applicants, applicant and candidate communication, and creating a pool for selection. This workshop is part of a series addressing challenges in the hiring process.  Next in this series are Select the Best and Paperwork Requirements for New Hires.

This course is for the critical final steps of the selection and hiring process.  You need to make a hire.  Advertising, sourcing and screening are complete, and now you have to determine how to make the best match for your organization from those who seemed the best through your screening process.  In this brief class, we’ll discuss tailoring targeted questions to the needs of the role and the company, methods of assessing culture and “fit,” and some subtle tools that may—or may not—indicate a good match, conditional offers and why “sequencing” is critical to the post-offer process.

Remember the good old days of human resources when the strangest thing you had to deal with was someone lying about their past employment experience?  Times have changed.  Now  you may be faced an array of situations ranging from dealing with drug use by an employee while on the job, an employee who urinated in a trash can or even complaints about an offensive smelling lunch cooked in the company’s microwave. SDEA has saved up some of the spookiest, oddest and most embarrassing questions that we have heard lately.

If you’ve hired a new employee recently, you likely noticed the growing number of papers to sign, notifications to provide and other documents required for new hires.  Did you forget anything?  In this brief workshop, we will review the most up to date new hire forms, provide a brief explanation of each form for yourself and your new hire, and make sure your process is covering both generally required and recommended forms for new hires.

Job accommodations come in many shapes and sizes.  Most employers realize the need to make accommodations for medical reasons but what about religion, sexual orientation or identification or family-related issues?  This program will discuss what an “undue hardship” really means, the importance of communication, employer legal requirements, how to document and the legal obligations of the interactive process.

Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in California.  As an employer, will this be the biggest of your concerns?  This class will provide attendees with tips on how to recognize drug use; drug testing laws and how they will apply to the workplace as well as best practices to follow so that your policies with respect to applicants and employees are up to date.

A well-written Employee Handbook is an important tool in helping with an organization’s day-to-day activities as well as a legal defense for potential litigation when needed.  A poorly written handbook that contains legalese, language that is confusing or limits an employer’s flexibility, or policies that are not followed or not applicable can be an employer’s worst enemy.  This workshop offers a structured process for developing and/or reviewing a handbook.

HR professionals and Managers in California recognize the importance and complications of Human Resources-related compliance.  In this brief workshop, we will review recommendations for conducting a brief yet thorough “desk audit” for your own employees and human resources processes, update the different types of data required to retain, discuss storage and security, review retention methods and guidelines, and help bring order to a complex challenge.

California Law AB 1825 requires all private businesses with 50 or more employees to provide professional training on preventing harassment, discrimination, and retaliation to all supervisors and managers every 2 years.