Labor is having a moment. Over the past year, established unions and grassroots workers’ movements have had success in organizing workers, including in traditionally non-unionized sectors. At the same time, the National Labor Relations Board seeks to make it easier for unions to organize workers but harder for employers to campaign against unionization. In addition, the Board is contemplating new penalties, such as consequential damages, for employers who commit unfair labor practices. Please join us for a discussion of these trends and how all employers may be impacted by an emboldened labor movement and developments at the NLRB.

This interactive session will focus on the role of HR and their ability to be champions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. By taking a look at the direct skills needed to facilitate difficult conversations as well as the influencing skills to impact DE&I decisions, HR professionals can further understand how their personal actions can influence others. The session also looks at different scenarios in recruitment and hiring, employee development, and more to further understand diversity from an HR lens.

Human Resources professionals know that keeping abreast of current legal developments are of the highest importance. NEHRA'S Legal Update Webinars will run each quarter, covering the key developments in employment law and issues of current concern for employers and human resources professionals. Led by Dan Klein, a partner in the Labor and Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw's Boston office, the Webinar will be an informative hour that will help ensure that you are up to speed in this vital area. Free to NEHRA members, we know that you won't want to miss this informative program!

The webinar will cover the situations in which employees are able to make mid-year changes to their health and welfare benefits. The webinar will focus primarily on the HIPAA special enrollment requirements and the Section 125 irrevocable election rule. We will identify the plans to which the rules apply, the situations in which employers are required to allow changes and the situations in which there is discretion. The interaction between coverage elections and pre-tax salary reduction elections will also be discussed.

Human Resources professionals know that keeping abreast of current legal developments are of the highest importance. NEHRA'S Legal Update Webinars will run each quarter, covering the key developments in employment law and issues of current concern for employers and human resources professionals. Led by Dan Klein, a partner in the Labor and Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw's Boston office, the Webinar will be an informative hour that will help ensure that you are up to speed in this vital area. Free to NEHRA members, we know that you won't want to miss this informative program!

The webinar will cover a number of key compliance issues that employers sponsoring group health plans are facing in 2022. The webinar will focus primarily on the health plan transparency and surprise medical bill requirements of the No Surprises Act. Additional issues that will be covered include updates to the ACA reporting rules, new requirements under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), COVID-related coverage mandates, the ongoing extension of certain benefit timeframes during the COVID pandemic, and potential future benefit-related legislation.

Are you ready to benefit from skills-based talent management? By simply defining jobs with skills, your organization can connect talent with work in a more modern, agile way — and better meet the changing business landscape, as well as use workforce skills data to reduce decision-making bias and support a broader diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. For most organizations, the base unit of managing a workforce has traditionally been a job. During the 20th century, job descriptions and titles defined how we thought about work, set salaries and made critical decisions around talent and workforce transformation. In recent decades, however, companies have reimagined that unit of work. Work has experienced seismic disruptions as we have become more interdependent, knowledge-focused, specialized and flexible about where, when and how we work. As a result, the base unit of work has fundamentally evolved: from jobs to skills. Skills are now the primary way to define work: how we deploy talent, manage careers and even reward employees. Organizations that cannot connect skills to work are at risk of being outpaced by those that can more rapidly deploy mission-critical talent. HR is the central hub for skills consulting in the organization, developing skills programs that are timely, relevant and agile enough to support the organization’s strategy through skills assessment, talent development and employee reskilling.

One thing is certain about today’s leaders: technical competence alone is not enough to make them successful. They need leadership capabilities and skills. We’d argue that moving from the job of expert to organizational leader represents a unique challenge that, in practice, is more complex and has far greater individual and organizational impact than just adding more technical knowledge. Being an organizational leader, requires shifting from relying on technical competence into being business and results focused. This means acquiring and developing leadership skills and competencies which are distinct from technical expertise. This session will outline the specialized elements of program design to meet the technical experts’ targeted development needs. We will share insights and discuss best practices from our work with hundreds of technical experts in both 1:1 coaching and leadership development programs. Session participants will get the chance to identify their own key takeaways to develop their organization’s technical super stars, using a signature “next steps” exercise.

Human Resources professionals know that keeping abreast of current legal developments are of the highest importance. NEHRA'S Legal Update Webinars will run each quarter, covering the key developments in employment law and issues of current concern for employers and human resources professionals. Led by Dan Klein, a partner in the Labor and Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw's Boston office, the Webinar will be an informative hour that will help ensure that you are up to speed in this vital area. Free to NEHRA members, we know that you won't want to miss this informative program!

Join us for this virtual program Addressing the Pandemic, as we focus on navigating the pandemic, it’s impacts and the emerging State and Federal compliance mandates. Learn methods to leverage your own organization’s expertise and reduce the burden on HR teams. Presented by Rich Maguire, he is pleased to present PCG’s experience around navigating the pandemic and how developing a COVID-19 Task Force changed the trajectory of the firm. Most importantly, he will focus on how to utilize the COVID-19 Task Force model to equitably share the responsibilities of the pandemic response with corporate and business line resources –ultimately reducing the burden on human capital management teams. Rich has over 35 years’ experience in Human Resource Management, Law Enforcement consulting, Academic Leadership and Global Operations. He developed and is the Leader of the COVID-19 Task Force for Public Consulting Group as part of his role as Senior Advisor to the COO and CEO of the firm. In 2009, as Director of Human Resources for UMASS Medical School, and Joint Leader of the Critical Incident Response Team for the H1N1 pandemic response he learned valuable lessons in pandemic response and was able to integrate and refine it with emergency response planning best practices gained from decades of military and law enforcement consulting.