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Training Solutions for Managers & Employees
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are all employment law attorneys who have spent decades training managers at major fortune 1000 corporations across the county.  Their powerful, often hilarious and sometimes harrowing stories (all from actual legal cases), demonstrate how well trained managers, especially ones who can spot legal issues before they become legal problems, make the difference between disaster and success for companies. 

In these times, legal matters are too important to leave to the lawyers! While not all lawsuits can be prevented, managers who understand their legal responsibilities will save your company millions of dollars in legal fees, thousands of hours of lost time, and keep employee retention high.

For more information or to book your training, contact us at
800-458-2778 or CLICK HERE.

Fair Measures Training Solutions:

Managing Within the Law
Taught by our own employment law trainers since 1987, this program includes such topics as documentation, wrongful action, discrimination, retaliation and harassment. A second day of training can be added that includes leaves of absence & accommocation, privacy, ethics, overtime, managing in cyberspace, and more.

Respectful Workplace: Understanding and Preventing Harassment
This half-day program can be customized for employees or managers. Powerful, often hilarious, and sometimes harrowing stories (all pulled from actual legal cases) demonstrate the difference between friendly banter and a legal problem. By the end of this highly interactive workshop, your group will know what to do about both.

California Harassment Compliance Training
One of four of our programs that meets and exceeds California’s requirements for harassment training for all companies with over 50 employees.

One-on-One Sensitivity Training
For all types of harassment prevention, this one-on-one training includes your policies and procedures and is conducted on-site by one of our employment law trainers.

Hiring the Best: Interviewing for Top Talent
This half-day program guides managers in developing an interviewing strategy that will support them in selecting top talent and avoiding the bad apples without creating legal risk.

Managing Employee Performance
Specifically targets the annual performance review process, the skills learned will provide managers with the ability and structure to provide on-going feedback and coaching.

Executive Sessions
Short, high-level programs for senior executives and HR professionals on any of the topics taught by Fair Measures.

Consultation Service
A companion service with our classroom training programs.

Fair Measures Web Workshops
World-class webinars taught on-line by Fair Measures attorney-trainers.  Current offerings are:

     California Harassment Compliance Training Webinar
     Managing Within the Law Web Workshop
     Email = Evidence Webinar
     Harassment Prevention Training Webinar (all states)
     Managing Overtime Webinar     
     Preventing Workplace Violence Webinar

Benefits:

  • Increase productivity and quality through improved performance management.
  • Promote communication and teamwork with Human Resources.
  • Create shared organizational culture based on values, policies, and laws.
  • Link your organization's policies to legal requirements.
  • Give managers confidence to comply with legal dos and don'ts.
  • Empower managers to be proactive, especially with poor performers.
  • Prevent employee lawsuits and avoid prison terms for responsible corporate officers.

Why Our Programs are Unique:

  • We emphasize the spirit of the law: fairness, respect, integrity.
  • Your policies, procedures, and values are integrated into the program.
  • Our instructors are seasoned attorneys, experienced trainers, and skilled facilitators who use personal stories and appropriate humor to make this potentially dry topic fun and interesting.
  • Our programs are highly participatory, with group interaction, case studies, video vignettes, skill-building exercises, and plenty of time to ask questions.
  • Participants receive a comprehensive reference manual, a monthly update e-newsletter, and access to our website with regular updates.

Accreditation

The follow courses have been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit:

Managing Within the Law I
Managing Within the Law II
Respectful Workplace
California Harassment Compliance Training Webinar

To find out more about our national training programs or to book training for your organization,please call 800-458-2778 or email training@fairmeasures.com or CLICK HERE.

 

 
 
 
Products

Harassment Investigation Checklist
If you are a manager or HR professional faced with a claim of harassment, you need to know how to conduct an investigation that will meet all of your legal responsibilities and that will ensure the rights of both the alleged victim and the accused harasser.

It's Not Just Sexual Anymore: Training Requirements for California Employers
White Paper by attorney Rita Risser.

Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedure
If you have an anti-harassment policy, it can be used in court to show that your company made a good faith effort to prevent harassment. With this policy, your company may not be liable for illegal harassment lawsuits against supervisors.

Internet and E-mail Policy and Procedure
An effective Internet / e-mail usage policy can help you maintain the integrity of your system against viruses, and prevent lawsuits for everything from violations of intellectual property, anti-spam laws, sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, wrongful termination and more.

Vacation Rights of Employees
These are just some of the common questions employers and employees have about vacation. In this comprehensive e-book, you will learn the laws relating to "use it or else" policies, employees forced to use vacation time, "working vacations" interrupted by calls from work, and more.

 
 
Advice & News

Can I take vacation time after I come back from disability leave?

Do we have to pay an exempt employee who was not at work?

What is the statute of limitations for wrongful termination?

Can you be fired for reporting FMLA violations?

Do we have to give a former employee copies of her paystubs?

Can we fire employee surfing "adult" web sites on the net?

Can we verify employment without employee consent?

Muslim employee refuses to take orders from female boss - can we fire him?

Do we have to pay contractors overtime?

Must home office employees "give" the time they would have been commuting?

Manager promoted his lover - can we demote employee but not manager?

What are legal issues created by the internet?

"Addicted to Internet" Protected Disability?

Can supervisor be fired for e-mails to lover-subordinate?

 

     
 
 
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