Action Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Affirmative Action in Employment - What Does It Really Mean? ...government agency charged with enforcement of affirmative action regulations. It is armed with a new leader and an increased budget. During fiscal year 2008, the OFCCP recovered a record $67,510,982 in back pay for salary and benefits on behalf of 24,508 individuals who, in OFCCP's view, were subjected to unlawful employment discrimination. The FY 2008 financial recovery represents a more than  more...

Hot Wage and Hour Issues: Assuring Proper Exempt and Nonexempt Classification of Your Employees ...and their counsel continue to pursue individual and class action overtime claims based on the alleged misclassification of exempt workers at a fever pitch. Thousands of lawsuits asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are  more...

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: Application to Condominiums and Single Family Homes ...r of developers and exposes them to individual rescission actions and sometimes class action suits on a broad scale. Finally, the issue of piggyback exemptions will be explored and discussed. Whether to defend against rescission for sales already made or to increase the chance of compliant future sales, this teleconference is critical for strengthening ILSA compliance to withstand and overcome  more...

Commodity Risks: How to Identify and Implement a Corporate Hedging Program ...k management options, and gain concurrence on a course of action and follow through with implementation from the supply chain through sales contracts and into the boardroom. This teleconference is critical for firms with significant exposure to commodity prices that want to improve their strategy in managing commodity risks. Purchasing managers, supply chain managers, buyers, contracting and  more...

A Privacy Law Primer: What Every Attorney, Compliance and Security Officer Should Know BenefitsPrivacy and information security legislation, standards and case law are having an ever-larger impact on your relationships with your customers, clients and employees, as well as on your company's management of personal information. Issue-spotting in this area requires some familiarity with the complex state, federal and international regulatory patchwork and nongovernmental standards that  more...

Fair Housing Act: 2009 Hot Topics ...m of the current hot issues in the courts and enforcement actions ranging from state agency complaint letters to class action litigation seeking many millions of dollars in damages and remediation. The faculty consists of three attorneys: a prominent litigator who has assisted property owners, lenders, developers and managers in FHA, ADA and Rehabilitation Act compliance and litigation all  more...

Director and Officer Liability: A Focus on Creditor Issues ...ing new and evolving theories of liability. The causes of action range from failing to take action to avoid insolvency to failing to implement adequate controls to catch fraudulent activity. Directors are facing personal liability for transactions with insiders, including transactions considered ordinary course for solvent companies such as repayment of loans from controlling shareholders and  more...

Don't Bet the Company: Understanding and Avoiding Class Actions in Labor and Employment Law! ...ia reports of companies settling employment-related class actions for many millions of dollars. The horror of class actions is that a small claim among a few employees can mushroom into a huge claim worth millions of dollars once some ferocious plaintiff's lawyers get their teeth into it and add hundreds of additional claims through the simple process of becoming a class action. Not only do  more...

Achieving Clarity and Value From Nonprofit Financial Reporting, Ratio Analysis and Benchmarking ...orting and ratio analysis. You will be able to develop an action plan for your organization to improve the clarity and substance of its financial reporting. Using ratio analysis, unit cost and benchmarking techniques, you will improve the clarity and understanding of your financial reports. You will learn the importance of communicating financial results in narrative English instead of simply  more...

Establishing Payment Arrangements: Beyond Net 30 nMore than 10,000 businesses have slow or nonpaying customers. How can you collect that money efficiently and quickly and keep that money coming in? The credit crisis, high fuel costs, job losses, bankruptcies, foreclosures and the failing economy are all contributing to factories closing, job loss and business owners going out of business because they can't get paid. Maximize your in-house  more...

401(k) Plan Costs Including Recent Update on Supreme Court Rule LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates Inc. ...f Labor investigations, IRS investigations, massive class action lawsuits - an ever-expanding list of factors bombards sponsors of 401(k) plans and places companies and their management potentially in the cross hairs. From Enron, Worldcom and Sarbanes-Oxley, to the more recent massive class actions filed against Fortune 500 companies regarding 401(k) plan service fees, decision makers face  more...

Designing Effective Interest Rate Risk Management in Turbulent Times ... tools for risk measurement were in place to help us take action to avoid as much of the impact as possible; yet a review of bank interest margins in the wake of massive rate reductions shows that bankers have a ways to go when using the interest rate risk information to make decisions. n nDuring this teleconference, we will explore the common tools in use today by bankers for the management  more...

Employee Retaliation: Supreme Court Update ...ms in nearly all areas of employment law and find adverse actions in a variety of circumstances, beyond demotion and termination, for purposes of upholding such claims. Most significantly, the U.S. Supreme Court recently determined in CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries, 128 S.Ct. 1951 (2008) that employees can bring retaliation claims under Section 1981, a post-Civil War era race discrimination act,  more...

Green Contracting: the Federal Government's Procurement Policies nMany federal contractors will have questions regarding the effective implementation of the OFPP policy and will further be concerned as to whether its costs will impact their competitiveness or ability to perform economically. Additionally, the monitoring and reporting that the government will require will have an impact on time and costs and one wonders if contractual sanctions will be imposed  more...

Capital Improvements for Condominium and Homeowners' Associations ...s. The board itself needs to be convinced of the need for action. They then need to be able to convince the unit/lot owners of their responsibility to support a planning capital maintenance program. The final step is to develop a financial planning model to support the cost of maintenance. The end result will be all about maintaining the highest possible level of property values. n nLearning  more...

Multiplaintiff Settlement Negotiations ...actions continue to increase. More and more employers are facing wage and hour cases and collective actions under the FLSA. Plaintiffs' counsel increasingly are relying on the benefits of Rule 23 certification to bring their wage and hour claims under applicable state wage and hour laws, bypassing the more restrictive FLSA collective action "opt-in" process. Where courts have shown reluctance  more...