Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
10:30 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)

Order Option       Price   1. Live Conference       $219       2. Live Conference + CD Recording       $269       3. CD Recording Only       $219

The recession has exposed weaknesses and vulnerabilities in HR management and employment practices strategies. These weaknesses rob organizations of vital assets, expose them to employment-related liabilities, make them less competitive, and hinder future growth.

Weathering the storm is about more than hunkering down and waiting it out. Savvy organizations are designing and implementing strategies to ensure they survive now—and thrive later.

Join us July 28, when our expert speakers will help your organization identify and assess HR management risks and vulnerabilities, implement key employment practices strategies to increase competitiveness while reducing legal exposure, and position your organization to seize new opportunities through effective human capital management.

You'll learn:

• Strategies to identify human capital-related risks
• Steps to improve your internal controls
• How employers can maximize payroll budget through effective use of wage-hour laws
• What two contracts can best reduce employer costs—and how to use them
• What two contracts best protect your firm's competitiveness
• Which one contract must be used with care to avoid major litigation

About Your Speakers:

Ronald Adler is the president and CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm in Potomac, Md., specializing in HR audits, employment practices risk management, benchmarking and HR metrics, strategic HR, employee surveys, and general HR management issues. Adler has more than 36 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.

Adler is a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. His research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Federation of Independent Business, insurers, and international organizations. In addition, Adler has assisted the EEOC in its study of "Who is an applicant?" for discrimination and affirmative action purposes.

He is a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™(ELLA®), the nation's leading HR auditing and employment practices risk assessment tool, and is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management and workplace issues.

Gregory M. Bergman is the managing shareholder of Bergman and Dacey, Inc., in Los Angeles. Bergman represents clients throughout the state in the areas of employment, construction, complex litigation, class actions, insurance, real property, first amendment, business litigation, and environmental law, among other practice areas.

Bergman has over 32 years of experience in litigation, including jury and bench trials, as well as successful appellate work. A recognized leader in the legal community, He regularly speaks to client, trade, and professional associations on trial preparation, complex matters, contract litigation, use of experts, cutting-edge employment issues including contingent workers, CEQA, and construction litigation.

Bergman has authored several articles in leading journals. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a charter fellow of the Litigation Council of America, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and multiple other prestigious legal organizations. He is currently co-chair of the Environmental Committee of the U.S.—Mexico Bar Association. Bergman has also been named "One of the Top Ten Environmental Lawyers" in the country by United States Lawyer for three years in a row. He is admitted to practice before all state courts, federal courts in California, the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Claims and he has served as a Judge Pro Tem and an Arbitrator for the Los Angeles Superior Court.

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours 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. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

Bonus Offer

As an additional benefit, you will receive a no-risk trial subscription to Employment Law Compliance for California Supervisors when you register for this Audio Conference (or purchase a CD recording). Each month, you'll receive copies of the current issue to share with your front-line supervisors. If you want to continue to receive the newsletter, simply pay the invoice you will receive in the mail. If you decide the newsletter isn't for you, just write cancel on the invoice and return it. You will owe nothing, and all issues you receive are yours to keep. As with all ERI products, your satisfaction is guaranteed 100%. (Offer good for new subscribers only.)

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 Employer Resource Institute sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference.

Why You Can Sign Up To Attend This Event with Confidence

As with all Employer Resource Institute 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.