Employment Law Compliance Made Easy

This lecture discusses legal issues relating to questions asked of job applicants.

This lecture describes a number of legal landmines that managers encounter while conducting interviews.

This lecture reviews the regulatory requirements that the Fair Credit Reporting Act imposes on companies when conducting background checks on job applicants.

This lecture discusses the common law test for determining if a worker is an employee.

This lecture discusses the test used by many jurisdictions and the IRS to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or employee.

This lecture examines the EEOC Statistics regarding the various types of discrimination charges it investigates.

This lecture defines and describes Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact Discrimination.

This lecture discusses the elements of retaliation that need to be proved to find a cause of action.

This lecture discusses more specifically the growing problem of retaliation in the workplace.

This lecture describes some major retaliation cases that define the scope of retaliation.

This lecture describes more cases that describe the scope of supervisory liability for retaliation.

This lecture describes Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the major federal discrimination law.

This lecture describes the legal analysis of discrimination.

This lecture defines and describes affirmative action and its applicability to the workplace. Additionally, the scope of sex discrimination and retaliation are discussed in this context.

On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided three consolidated cases that expanded the definition of "discrimination because of sex" to include gay and transgender individuals in the workplace.  This is a significant change to U.S. Federal Law, and affords many more individuals protection under the law.

This lecture describes the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and provides management tips.

The first of two lectures describing disability law and management responsibilities dealing with disabled applicants and employees.

This lecture describes management's responsibilities concerning reasonable accommodation.

This lecture describes the legal tests and standards for age discrimination violations.

This lecture describes the administrative process for a discrimination charge with the EEOC.

The White-Collar Exemptions of the Fair Labor Standards Act are narrowly-construed rules for determining whether an employer is exempt from receiving overtime. This is a very contentious and confusing area of the law.

Effective January 1, 2020, the FLSA Salary Threshold increases from $23,660/year to $35,568. This is a major change that will have an impact on small businesses and mean approximately 1.3 million more American workers will be eligible to receive overtime.

This lecture examines when travel time and training time is compensible.

This lecture discusses specific rules pertaining to when an employer may take deductions from an employee's paycheck.

This lecture discusses many of the major laws implicated with privacy in the workplace.