Event Details

North Star SHRM will be hosting a seminar titled: You’re a Supervisor, and You Did What?  It will be held at the Minnesota School of Business (11500 193^rd Avenue, Elk River) on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 8 am to 9:30 am. All North Star SHRM members are invited to attend.  In addition, all Elk River and I-94 West Chamber members, and Minnesota School of Business students are invited to attend.  There is no cost to attend.

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any small business owners.  The hour-long session will analyze ways that supervisors incur risks for employers, the potential consequences, and risk management approaches.

The course will cover problematic conduct that supervisors sometimes engage in, either intentionally or unintentionally; the legal risks and consequences of those behaviors; and steps that employers can take to minimize their risk.

Learning objectives are:

• Create fine-grained training modules for supervisors
• Assess supervisor-related risks attached to known employee complaints
• Detect potential employee complaints from assessing supervisory conduct
• Develop additional areas for feedback to supervisors

This seminar will be presented by Joseph Nierenberg. 

Joseph Nierenberg has practiced labor and employment law in Minnesota for thirty years.  Early in his career, he represented public and private labor organizations, individuals, and multiemployer pension and welfare funds.  Since 1988, Mr. Nierenberg has represented business, governmental, and non-profit clients in the litigation and non-litigation management of labor relations and employment issues.  His clients have included organizations in education; finance; government; entertainment; health and long term care; manufacturing; personnel staffing; real estate development; and transportation.  They have ranged from local startups to regional to nationwide organizations.

Mr. Nierenberg has developed expertise in the area of nontraditional staffing arrangements, in addition to a regular practice involving compliance counseling; supervisor training; the development of policies and procedures; issues relating to organized labor; workplace investigations; and varied litigation before trial and appellate courts, federal and state agencies, and arbitrators.

Mr. Nierenberg has given presentations on a broad range of employment topics to lawyers, trade associations, and interested industry groups.  He is active in professional and bar groups organized around labor and employment issues.