Tax & Legal Update for Payroll and HR

Even as organizations work to optimize every aspect of their talent attraction strategies, they often overlook the humble job posting’s role. Job postings are a key channel for candidates to learn about the job and the organization. Thus, it is important for recruiting leaders to create a job description that candidates will find desirable. Join this free HR webinar to learn why optimizing job posting length, readability and quality matters, and how to improve your chances of attracting the right talent.

Many employers struggle with how to appropriately respond to employees' requests for parental and other types of leave in compliance with applicable laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Failing to appropriately provide required leave can lead to disgruntled employees, lawsuits, and/or government investigations. This topic is intended to provide you with information on managing employee leave and return to work issues in the workplace. The information will include types of reasonable accommodations, including in the return-to-work context; common leave and post-leave problems and how to avoid them; on ramping policies that will help ensure employee success; and examples and case studies.

Trust. Feedback. Growth. Improvement. Alignment. Companies that want their performance reviews to support these objectives will fail if they’re still hewing to annual performance reviews. It’s not just employees being reviewed having trouble; it’s executives doing the reviews, too. A Wakefield Research study of executives and office professionals, commissioned by Reflektive, discovered a startling fact: Nearly 60% of executives delay and postpone performance reviews due to a lack of time to prepare. That leaves employees hanging in the balance — waiting, wondering, and losing faith.

During this session attendees will learn about the shift from “soft skills” to “power skills,” and how with the growing need to engage and retain talent, companies are tasked with tangibly investing in their people beyond technical skills.