Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Originally presented on December 13, 2007

Order Option       Price   CD Recording Only       $199

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If you're struggling with unscheduled, unexpected absenteeism in your California workplace, you're not alone.

Two out of three employees who fail to show up for work aren't staying home because they're truly sick, a recent survey found. Every missing worker cuts your productivity, increases the strain on the employees who showed up for work as promised, and hits your bottom line with $660 in added costs per employee every year!

Many California employers have adopted paid-time-off (PTO) banks—combining vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, and holidays to control the total days off work and combat spiraling absenteeism. What they've found in many cases, however, is a new set of problems:

• Some workers see PTO banks as an excuse to claim more days off than before
• Your PTO bank's rules may favor younger, healthier workers unfairly
• Employees who don't want to lose PTO days due to illness show up for work sick ("presenteeism")

Join us on Dec. 13 for this 90-minute audio conference that will share the secrets of making paid-time-off (PTO) banks work in California. You'll learn how to remedy (and avoid) the most common mistakes California employers make with PTO banks—from dealing with employees' misunderstandings about how your new time-off policies work to preventing abuses of the system by workers looking for loopholes.

This seminar is designed for HR professionals and employers in California who have already introduced a PTO bank in their workplace. (Not sure how to get started with a PTO bank? Consider registering for our basic conference on this topic that's set for Dec.4!)

YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES WILL LEARN:

• The most common complaints California workers have about PTO banks—and your best options for addressing those concerns with your own employees
• How to avoid problems with your PTO bank under state and federal laws (e.g., the Family and Medical Leave Act, the California Family Rights Act) and in the fine print of your employee benefits programs (e.g., short-term disability policies)
• What steps you can take to prevent "presenteeism," as workers report to the job sick to avoid using their PTO days as sick leave
• How you should handle the "carryover" of unused PTO days (and whether California law requires you to pay out those days when an employee leaves your organization)
• What you must do when workers have exhausted their PTO days but still need time off due to hardships or emergencies
• The policies you need in place to manage earned-time and buy-sell options in your PTO bank
• What types of leave should never be included in your PTO allotments
• Why you may run afoul of federal tax regulations if you don't structure the vacation portion of your PTO bank correctly
• What steps you can take to involve your front-line managers in administering the PTO bank and enforcing its policies
• How to reconcile California and federal rules when they're in conflict (e.g., charging PTO time for an exempt employee's partial day's absence)
• Why you must be careful in judging whether PTO time falls under FMLA/CFRA rules

ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER:

Lisa E. Aguiar, Esq., chairs the Employment Law Group at the law firm Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in California. She focuses her practice on defending and counseling employers and management. She advises clients on handling day-to-day employment issues, dealing with discrimination and harassment issues, and drafting employment policies and agreements. Also, she has performed corporate in-house training on topics ranging from sexual harassment prevention to proper hiring procedures, and she has led recent seminars on employee leave issues and the interplay between various federal and state leave laws. She earned her law degree from the McGeorge School of Law (University of the Pacific) in San Francisco.

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.