2020 Tips for HR Professionals

Changing laws and regulations place a real burden on HR teams. This 60-minute HR compliance tips webinar reviews significant changes for organizations in several areas: exempt and non-exempt salary thresholds, salary history bans, independent contractors, marijuana in the workplace and paid family leave.

For each topic, you'll look at how it affects your organization, how federal, state and local rules differ, and what it means for your policies, procedures and workplace communications.

The session also covers the importance of mistake-proof forms, common mistakes and how to correct them, the cost of getting it wrong, and upcoming or potential changes.

• Explain how recent HR law changes affect your organization
• Compare federal, state and local requirements
• Update policies, procedures and employee communications
• Create mistake-proof forms and correct common mistakes
• Estimate the impact and cost of non-compliance
• Prepare for upcoming or potential changes

• Exempt and non-exempt salary thresholds
• Salary history bans
• Independent contractors
• Marijuana in the workplace
• Paid family leave
• Federal, state and local differences
• Policies, procedures and employee communication
• Tips for understanding forms and making them mistake-proof
• Common mistakes and how to correct them
• Impact and cost for an organization
• Upcoming or potential changes

When employment laws change, organizations must update policies, forms and communications, and mistakes can be costly. This session helps you understand what is expected and how to stay on top of federal, state and local requirements.

It suits HR and payroll professionals, small business owners, nonprofit administrators, general and office managers, attorneys, accountants, consultants, labor unions and trainers.

• Human Resources Professionals
• Small Business Owners
• Non-Profit Administrators
• General Managers
• Office Managers
• Payroll Professionals
• Lawmakers
• Attorneys
• Accounting Professionals
• Consultants
• Labor Unions
• Professors, Instructors and Trainers

Matthew Burr has over ten 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. He specializes in labor and employment law, conflict resolution, performance management, employee relations and work with labor unions. Matthew also has a generalist background in HR and provides strategic HR services to his clients, focusing on small and medium sized organizations. Matthew will be starting as an Associate Professor of Management at Elmira College in July 2017. Matthew is the SHRM Certification Exam Instructor at Elmira College. Matthew works as a trainer Tompkins Cortland Community College, Corning Community College, Broome Community College and Penn State University. He is also an on-call Mediator and Fact-Finder through the Public Employment Relations Board in New York State.

Matthew has publications at the Cornell HR Review, Business Insider, Expert 360 (in Australia). He recently published his first book, $74,000 in 24 Months: How I killed my student loans (and you can too!).

Matthew has an associate's degree in business administration from Tompkins Cortland Community College, a bachelors of science degree from Elmira College, a master's degree from the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations in Human Resources & Industrial Relations, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification, both the SPHR and SHRM-SCP. Matthew is currently working towards a masters degree in business administration through Syracuse University with an anticipated completion date of December 2017.