Chapter Meeting

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any business owners.  Whistleblower law continues to develop at warp speed.  This session will review the latest developments, both in Minnesota and under Federal law, the proof necessary to defend whistleblower claims, strategies for internal investigations, attorney-client privilege issues, HR’s responsibility in relation to the company, and the unique challenges in litigating whistleblower claims.

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The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any business owners.  What if they are stoned on their own time?  What if they get high while on a trip to a state where it is legally and readily available?  As marijuana becomes more and more accepted by society and available recreationally, employers face a conundrum – how will marijuana affect our workplaces, and should we test for it.  The answers have real consequences for applicants, employees, and workplaces.  So, what should you do?  This session will include some practical consideratio

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any business owners.  This class will explore the current state of employee benefits to see what trends are happening, and more importantly, what trends are coming.  This will take a broad approach to cover many areas within employee benefits.  Is your current benefit package competitive?  Are you offering the benefits that match the different generations in your workforce?  Do you know what your employees want?

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any small business owners.  This interactive session will discuss items employers should proactively audit entering into 2020.  Specifically, this session will address recent developments in labor and employment law that impact human resource policies and procedures.   Among other things, the session will discuss: (1) Drug and Alcohol Testing Policies; (2) EPLI Policies; (3) Employee handbook pitfalls to avoid; (4) I-9 compliance; (5) job descriptions; and (6) wage and hour issues.

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Presenter:  Patrick O'Donnell attorney from Smith, Paulson, O'Donnell & Erickson

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any small business owners.  In order to “Create Something Extraordinary,” your team must be “all in!”  A major cause of employee turnover, dissatisfaction, and disengagement is due to a lack of trust.   Trust is the foundation of all great teams.  Improvisation training equips teams with tools to creatively solve issues facing today’s business environment.  By applying this short, easy, and FUN program, you will see immediate benefits in morale and engagement.

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any small business owners.  The impact of the #metoo era has been felt throughout our society, perhaps nowhere more legally importantly than in the labor and employment realm.  The class will describe the current labor and employment law landscape with the rise of EEOC charges of harassment and retaliation and the increase of reasonable accommodation requests and how these topics can sometimes be interconnected.  We will explore the trends in these areas and the direction the law is moving.

So, why don’t we ask them?  What would change our behavior to start asking?

Objectives are:

• Identify a human approach to compliance
• Develop strategy to train middle managers on how to have difficult conversations with employees
• Understand human behavior responses as trust is built with employees

This seminar will be presented by Kate Bischoff with tHRive Law & Consulting LLC. 

North Star SHRM will be hosting a seminar titled: Myths & Misconceptions About Employer Health Plans.  It will be held at Great River Energy (17845 East Highway 10, Elk River) on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from 8 am to 9:30 am. All North Star SHRM members are invited to attend.  In addition, all Elk River, Monticello, and I-94 West Chamber members are invited to attend.  There is no cost to attend.

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and any small business owners.  Did you know that 75 percent of the reasons employees leave their jobs could be prevented by employers?  In the first scientific study of its kind, Work Institute analyzed more than 250,000 exit interviews over eight years, and we’ll share our most recent findings to help you prevent turnover in your workplace.  This session reveals the truth about the employee marketplace and separates fact from fiction when it comes to why employees quit – and it’s most often, not abou