WHO:	Executives, Managers, Supervisors, Entrepreneurs, HR Professionals
WHEN:	Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (at HR Anew – Live Seminar) 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast and Networking 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Program and Q&A Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (Webinar) 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
WHERE:	HR Anew 6350 Stevens Forest, Road, Suite 107 Columbia, Maryland 21046
COST:	COMPLIMENTARY
BENEFIT:	A new perspective

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

This timely seminar will ensure that business owners, executives, and human resource professionals are knowledgeable about existing and newly enacted employment laws; as well as pending legislation impacting their organization or business.

We will discuss Federal and State existing, new, and pending employment legislative bills to include Maryland, Washington, DC; and Virginia. Gain insights about how employment legislation impacts how employers recruit, hire, train, promote, discipline, compensate, and reward employees. Recently enacted federal bills include the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009, Family Medical Leave Act updates, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and more!

We will help you assess your risks, seek opportunities to decrease expenses, and prescribe solutions that can help to prevent you and your management team from spending time responding to regulatory agencies, attending hearings with EEOC specialists, paying legal fees, or settling employment charges because of an employee’s claim of workplace harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.

How we add value during the seminar:

1. Identify existing, newly enacted, and pending employment legislative bills on the federal, state, and local levels including Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
2. Receive the latest statistics as it relates to employee claims of workplace harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
3. Consider the impact of existing and pending legislation as it relates to talent acquisition, management, and retention; including employee compensation and benefits.
4. Recognize and assess employment liabilities in your workplace, explore strategies through interactive exercises to minimize exposure, and brainstorm about viable solutions to protect the employer.

How you add value following the seminar:

1. Update executives, managers, and supervisors in your workplace on employment legislation and statistics.
2. Create, review, and/or update your employer’s Employee Handbook and other workplace related policies, procedures, and forms to improve employee relations and communications, proactively address workplace challenges, minimize legal exposure, and ensure employment law compliance.
3. Create, review, and/or update your talent acquisition, talent management, and talent retention strategies to ensure they are aligned with organization’s priorities.
4. Increase managers and supervisors ability and confidence in successfully applying employment related policies, procedures, and processes.

This session may be videotaped for the benefit of those unable to attend.

This program is approved for 2 general credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR re-certification through HRCI.

	John Hardwick, JD John Hardwick has more than 17 years of experience as an employment attorney, employment and human resource consultant, and trainer. During that time, he has amassed a consistent track record of helping employers successfully overcome claims and charges filed by current and former employees, and of steering clients through difficult day-to-day workplace challenges. Mr. Hardwick is a former partner and leader of the Washington, DC labor and employment practice of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, one of the nation’s 100 largest law firms. Currently, Mr. Hardwick provides expertise in all areas of employment and labor law, conducts independent investigations of individual and class equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaints and other sensitive workplace issues. He advises employers in employment and human resource matters. Mr. Hardwick also regularly trains business owners, executives, managers, and employees of corporate, government, and non-profit entities in harassment and discrimination prevention, employment law compliance, managing performance and conduct, dealing with volatile employees, wage and hour compliance, diversity, and affirmation action. His diverse clients include the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, the District of Columbia Housing Authority, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Integrated Systems Analysts, and Rembrandt IP Management. Mr. Hardwick earned a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, and a Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School. He started on the men's varsity soccer team that won the 1986 NCAA Division 1 Championship and served as co-captain of the team during his senior season.