Payroll may be the most heavily regulated aspect of HR. Executives, HR, and payroll professionals can be held personally liable for some payroll violations. And with many companies now employing workers in multiple states, a thick new layer of complexity has been added to the payroll game. Learn how to avoid these problems and improve every facet of your payroll operations. Attorney Alice Gilman, editor of Payroll Legal Alert, will cover topics including new FLSA rules for exempt employees; key changes to W-2s, 1099s and the payroll tax landscape; timekeeping; expense reimbursement; garnishments; special payroll rules for remote or hybrid workers; and more.

With a tight labor market, it’s past time to make substantial changes to your recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and retention strategies. This workshop will cover specifics of how to do just that, including how to raise your hiring standards during a talent shortage—yes, that’s possible. The workshop will also cover remote interviewing, 29 proven questions to ask, how to make an offer, and then close the deal. Learn how to help new hires feel like part of your culture before day one. Finally, learn how to use extended onboarding and coaching to lock in retention.

This is your chance to make sure you are ready for any upcoming changes in employment law and how to navigate the recent ones affecting your workplace. This session will prepare your company for upcoming changes from the Dobbs decision to what’s on the Supreme Court’s radar. It will also include updates on wage and hour, pay equity, harassment, marijuana, legal absences and background check policies.

Significant workplace changes are flowing out of the nation's capital. This session will update you on the HR related legislative developments, and how the mid-term elections will impact the environment in DC. The Biden Administration's regulatory moves will also be explained -- and how they may change your HR duties. Special attention will be given to the NLRB and the impact on union organizing.

Hiring and retaining employees may the single most critical factor in the success of your organization—and it’s more difficult than ever (both practically and legally). Discover easy-to-implement tools, tips and techniques to recruit, hire and retain top talent, without stepping on legal rakes. Don’t recruit another employee until you know what you’re doing wrong—and how to do it right!

It’s a whole new world with remote and hybrid work here to stay. But have you evaluated the variety of legal risks that come with the workplace of the future? Learn how to get your remote procedures in airtight legal compliance—from timekeeping and accommodations to classifications and multi-state pay issues. Leave with total confidence on how to comply in the new workplace.

We can handle unemployment compensation claims, EEOC charges, workers' comp claims, and similar "administrative matters" without consulting our lawyer, right? Wrong! Learn how common employer mistakes can lead to lots of problems — and significant liability.

This always-anticipated LEAP session will review the year’s weirdest and wildest HR legal cases. It will get you laughing and thinking because each hilarious case carries a practical tip for employers. Be here to ensure your company doesn’t end up as the butt of next year’s legal jokes.

Learn from the pros—AND your peers! Choose from eight tables, each tackling a different topic you can discuss with a legal expert. After 20 minutes, you can switch to a second, then a third. Topics include retaliation, remote employees, wage and hour, employee handbooks, recordkeeping and documentation, investigations and discipline, hiring and firing, and wellness/well-being.

Religious accommodation requests were somewhat of a rarity in the past—and then came COVID. As the pandemic raged, so did the requests for accommodations. Now that employees understand the availability of this tool, the requests are expected to continue (with an uptick in litigation as well). Learn all the details of the law and how to prepare your organization against possible legal action.

HR investigations are more important than ever--but also often more complicated than in the past. Remote workers, Zoom meetings, and legal limitations are just a few of the challenges in the post-COVID workplace. Learn the step-by-step process to effectively (and legally) investigate (and properly document) any kind of employee misconduct, avoiding the most common errors. These tips and strategies will help you resolve workplace complaints more successfully.

Words matter -- especially when they are the words used by HR. Learn the best approaches to communicating employment related decisions and development, without creating legal liability. These rakes are common and easy to step on. Make sure you avoid these landmines for your company — and you.

You know those jerks at work? The ones who are chasing your best employees out the door? Instead of tolerating this toxic behavior, take back control. Leave this session with the confidence to go back to your workplace and defuse the drama for good.

You know that question you’ve been dying to get an expert opinion on? Here’s your chance. One of the attorneys and speakers from the LEAP program will be assigned to each table to answer your questions during lunch. You will gain the opportunity to listen in and discover the successes—and mistakes—of your HR colleagues.

This “lightning-round” closing event is a LEAP favorite. Speakers from the three days of LEAP’s popular breakout sessions and pre-conference workshops will provide the key, practical takeaways, allowing you to create a customized “action plan” for legal and HR changes in your organization.

In this litigious climate, we all need a laugh. The Roundtable Players are famous for their humorous approach to concluding the LEAP seminar in this side-splitting review of the program’s highlights. Past shows have included “HR Family Feud” and “American Employment Law Idol.” You won’t want to miss what they come up with this year!