Lunch&Learn - Employee Handbook (Mar 2024)

This Lunch&Learn is worth 1.5 HRCI and SHRM credits.
Join us for an insightful Employment Handbook Workshop designed to provide employers, HR professionals, and business owners with a comprehensive understanding of essential employment policies and practices. Led by experienced employment attorneys, this workshop covers a range of crucial topics that are vital for maintaining a compliant and employee-friendly work environment. It also contains important practical guidance and best-practice methods because the attorneys know that staff is a company’s best asset.
 
Workshop Highlights:
Employee Benefits Policies:

• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA): Learn the important concepts and practical applications of the FMLA, including employee eligibility, notification procedures, and the overlap with other time off and reasonable accommodation policies.
• Workers’ Compensation: Understand the fundamentals of workers' compensation, including coverage, reporting, and the importance of maintaining a safe workplace.
• Vacation, Sick time, or other Paid Time Off (PTO): Explore best practices for managing vacation, sick, and PTO policies, addressing accrual, usage, and approval processes. You’ll learn how to make sure that you do not accidentally classify these fringe benefits as wages either. Further, many surrounding states require paid sick leave; learn about how to overlap state-mandated sick leave with these policies.

• Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Gain insights into creating and implementing policies that promote a non-discriminatory workplace.
• Sexual and Other Harassment Policies: Learn how to develop effective anti-harassment policies and procedures, fostering a safe and respectful workplace. The content of an Anti-Harassment policy can make or break a lawsuit.
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Understand ADA compliance, reasonable accommodation interactive processes, and the rights of employees with disabilities, with a brief primer on undue hardship and direct threat analyses.

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Susanna Fultz is a member of the firm’s Employment and Litigation practice groups with more than a decade of experience. She serves both businesses and individual clients. Susanna is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Susanna attended the University of Delaware, where she earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts, cum laude. Susanna then graduated from Washington & Lee University School of Law. While in law school, Susanna interned at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, and participated in several international clinics in Europe and Asia.

Caleb Setlock is an attorney in the Employment and Labor Law Practices, representing employers in litigation and advising on best-practice methods. Caleb has experience defending a wide variety of employee claims. His primary practice includes federal discrimination claims under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the ADEA, Title VIII and the Fair Housing Act, and state discrimination claims under the PHRA and the PFEOA. In defending against these claims, Caleb has dealt with race, sex, religion, age, and disability charges. Caleb also handles claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Pennsylvania’s Minimum Wage Act, and Wage Payment and Collection Law.