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Preventing Sexual Harassment for Employees Course description -- Preventing sexual harassment is everyonea s responsibility, but employees may not know exactly what to do unless things are spelled out fairly clearly. This course addresses the issues related to sexual harassment: how the law applies to employees, things to avoid in the work environment, and specific employee responsibilities. There are tips to help employees examine their more...

Preventing Sexual Harassment for Leaders Course description -- Leaders have a particular responsibility in preventing sexual harassment, and this course spells out just exactly what their role is. They will be given critical information to tell them what the law expects and direction on how to meet these legal requirements. The course provides tools and tips for promoting a harassment-free environment, and suggestions on how to set a more...

Hazard Communication HazCom ...ion Standard (HCS), also known as the a right to knowa law. This standard is based on a simple concept: that employees have both a need and a right to know the hazards and the identities of the chemicals they are exposed to when working. This course is designed to assist both employers and employees in learning about work hazards and how to protect themselves. This course can be completed as more...

Paralegalism Career Overview Start a new career. Students learn about law and the role of the paralegal and what it takes to become one. more...

Introduction to Law This class provides students with the basic principles of law, such as the difference between civil and criminal laws. Students will also explore diverse areas of the law like cyberlaw, insurance, e-commerce and will, trusts and estates. more...

Contract Law Contracts form the primary basis for commercial activity in society. Learn the A-Z basics of contract law. more...

Business Organizations and the Law Learn about different business organizations and the criteria that defines their operations. more...

Ethics and the Law This course focuses on the ethics involved in the practice of law more...

Discharging Employees There are strict legal requirements as well as personal accountability when discharging an employee. This course covers all the critical aspects of termination, including information about the law and how it impacts the process and your decision. You will be given methods for identifying when discharge is appropriate and tools to help you prepare for the meeting. You will also learn specific more...

Special Education: History, Litigation, Law and Trends Provides knowledge of the history, laws, and trends in special education more...

Organisational Communication :Setting Safety Standards ...ow to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will highlight the beliefs that underpin successful Health & Safety Policies, show you how to implement a successful Health & Safety Policy and guide you in providing leadership and supervision. It will demonstrate how to create a safe system of work. You will learn how to help your team more...

Organisational Communication : Dealing with Authorities ...ion in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will help you use your resources effectively to establish and ensure safe working practices. It will encourage you to promote a safe working environment with your team, and it will help you comply with your legal responsibilities for health and safety. Developing safety sense requires investment, but the payoff is the more...

Organisational Communication : Improving Safety ...ion in the first place, your responsibility is defined by law. This course will enable you to use your resources effectively and to establish and ensure safe working practices. You'll see how you can reduce losses, by actively preventing accidents, investigating them when they do occur and using the information to improve the safety system even further. It will explain all areas of a safety more...

Keeping Safe at Work ...ow to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will equip you to use your head more than your physical strength before attempting to move anything heavy. It will discuss the steps you can take to reduce the risk of aggression and how to deal with it if you should find yourself in a threatening situation. Developing safety sense requires more...

Safety in Industry Working safely has to be everyone's priority, but safe working isn't always a case of common sense. To be really sure you need to develop safety sense. Whatever your job you'll have some responsibility for health and safety. Whether it's simply to report potential hazards or to decide how to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course looks at more...

Dealing with Emergancies ...ow to avoid a dangerous situation in the first place, the law defines your responsibility. This course will introduce you to fire prevention, advise you on what to do in the event of a fire and take you through fire alarm procedures. It will equip you with knowledge on what to do in an emergency before qualified help arrives Developing safety sense requires investment, but the payoff is the more...

Essentials of Electronic Communication Everyone seems to be using e-mail lately--family members keeping in touch, university students submitting assignments, companies offering products for sale, and office workers carrying out their daily business tasks. Most e-mail users can improve their e-mail skills by learning more about the basic features and potentials of e-mail. Any business person will benefit from developing an understanding more...

Affirmative Action and the EEO HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee rights, such as equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action (AA). The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professional's competencies. more...

Employment Management HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations, HRCI/PHR (Professional in Human Resources certification), cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including legislation affecting employee and consumer rights, and matters of workforce management. The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating more...

Compensating Employees HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including the theories and applications associated with effective compensation. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's workforce possesses the skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the current and more...

Strategic Approaches to Workforce Planning and Employment HRCI SPHR In order to remain competitive in the business world, organizations must ensure that they employ the right people in the right numbers at the right time. Workforce planning and employment involves the processes of planning, developing, implementing, administering, and ongoing evaluation of recruiting and hiring to ensure that the workforce will meet the organization's strategic goals and more...

Management of the HR Process HRCI SPHR As HR moves into the twenty-first century, its role is becoming key in developing organizational strategy. As a result, it is crucial for HR professionals to have a working knowledge of other functional areas of the business, so that they can provide the operational and administrative support necessary to attract and retain qualified employees. This course explains how to strategically diagnose more...

Strategic Approaches to Risk Management HRCI SPHR Risk management, the safeguarding of the health, safety, and security of employees, is essential for business success and of particular concern to HR professionals. This course explains how to apply common occupational health, safety, and security guidelines and programs. It also outlines how security risk analysis can be used to avoid future emergencies. This course prepares HR professionals and more...

EEO and Affirmative Action HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee rights, such as equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action (AA). The (HRCI) certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professional's more...

Managing Employment HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations, HRCI/PHR (Professional in Human Resources certification), cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including legislation affecting employee and consumer rights, and matters of workforce management. The (HRCI) certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for more...

Human Resource Development HRCI PHR The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including human resources development and performance management. As a human resources professional, you are responsible for helping to ensure that your company's employees have maximized their potential for growth and development. This course will help more...

Pricing for Profitability Nothing can be more harmful to the success of your new product or service than incorrect pricing and other financial projections In this course, you will not only learn how to gather pertinent revenue and expense information to help you price your product, but also how to determine your objectives and policies to correctly position your product in its market niche. You'll examine three methods and more...

E-mail and Internet Use E-mail and Internet technologies are rapid communication and information tools that spell success for any person or business that knows how to take advantage of them. However, there are dangers in the use of this advanced technology. This course outlines the pitfalls involved in using e-mail and accessing the Internet through a company's network, and the policies that are often implemented to more...

Business Ethics - How We Do Business This course teaches you the ethical standards that govern honest and fair business conduct, the different types of anticompetitive conduct that violate US antitrust law, the guidelines for avoiding insider trading, and the rules to which management and employees must adhere to avoid conflicts of interest with the company. All employees within an organization, whether new hires or as a refresher more...

A Manager s Introduction to Business Law ...troduces managers to the fundamental concepts of business law. It begins by exposing some prevalent legal misconceptions shared by management and establishes the true role that law plays in society and business. The relationship between business ethics and law is explained and how managers serve as vital role models for demonstrating ethical business practices. This course also presents the more...

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act U.S. firms seeking to do business in foreign markets must be familiar with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The act prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or keeping business. This course provides an overview of the FCPA. It illustrates how the act can impact your business and gives advice on the steps you can take to make sure that your business more...

Intellectual Property Overview ...ement perform this function effectively while keeping the law on its side? This course explains the basic types of intellectual property, the legal protections in place, and the potential consequences of violating intellectual property rights. The course covers current copyright, patent, and trademark laws and presents methods for minimizing legal liabilities. SkillSoft's Legal Compliance more...

Trade Secrets ...TSA), in those states that have adopted it, and by common law principles in others. Owners may take legal action if their trade secrets are violated. The single most effective step owners can take to protect trade secrets is to get employees, contractors, and other relevant individuals to sign properly drafted, binding nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). These agreements provide strong protection more...

Doing Business with the Government This course explains how to identify, win, and manage contracts with the largest consumer of goods and services in the world--the U.S. government. Each year the federal government awards contracts worth over $200 billion to businesses of all sizes and diversity. Of the 20 percent of contracts designated for small businesses, one quarter are aimed at women-owned businesses and another quarter for more...

Insider Trading ...llegal insider trading and list the main provisions under law governing legal insider trading. It also discusses the civil and criminal penalties incurred by insider traders and the companies that they work for. It identifies the main procedures that companies should take to prevent insider trades generally and specifically during pension fund blackout periods. The main rules regarding the more...

Record Retention ...ddresses the compliance requirements of state and federal law. While disposing of too many records can increase a company's legal exposure, disposing of too few records increases the costs of storing the records. In this one-hour course, you'll learn how to identify which records must be retained and for how long, the different formats in which records may be stored, techniques for record more...

Independent Contractors and Temporary Employees Many companies are hiring contract or temporary employees to meet their changing staffing needs. Before hiring an independent contractor or temporary employee--also referred to as a contingency worker--companies should be aware of the costs involved along with the relevant legal and taxation issues. It is important that both parties have a clear understanding of the terms of their agreement with more...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ...law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Sparked by a wave of dramatic corporate and accounting scandals, this federal securities legislation attempts to combat corporate fraud and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws. The act's provisions have helped to enhance audit committee responsibility and auditor oversight, including prior more...

Union Awareness ...hy is membership declining? Perhaps the growing number of laws in place to protect workers prevents the necessity of unions, or perhaps the nature of the work itself has changed. Regardless of the decline, workers still have the legal right to form unions, and you need a basic understanding of workers' rights, and what rights you have as an employer. It's important to understand why employees more...

Rightful Termination One of the most difficult things you will do as a manager is to tell an employee that his or her working relationship with the company must end. When you take this course, you will learn specific steps to follow when terminating someone's employment due to layoffs, performance problems or misconduct. You will then have the opportunity to apply what you've learned in a role play. Of course, the more...

Documenting Discipline Disciplinary action in the workplace is a delicate matter. A serious conflict between manager and worker can give rise to a lengthy grievance procedure, or, at worst, legal action. Detailed disciplinary documents are the best defense when a manager's actions are called into question. Without these documents there may be no record of a worker's repeated infractions or failure to satisfy job more...

Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower Protection ...he Enron collapse, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law in an effort to prevent or reduce the incidence of corporate and securities fraud. Significantly, the Act (technically named "The Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002") provides protection to, and even encourages, employees who would report such fraud. Sarbanes-Oxley provides the most forceful protections to date more...

Employee Sexual Harassment Awareness Sexual harassment can have a disastrous impact on victims, offenders, and the company in which the offense occurs. Training employees in the essentials of prohibited conduct is an important part of reducing liability and maintaining a professional work environment. This course helps participants identify two types of sexual harassment, and recognize behaviors that may be considered sexually more...

Supervisor and Manager Sexual Harassment Awareness ... this issue. Every manager is accountable for knowing the laws, guidelines, policies, and resources for correcting, preventing, and investigating sexual harassment complaints. This two-hour course can help your company demonstrate its commitment to a fair, responsible, and healthy organizational environment, free from harassment and intimidation. California law requires that the learner must more...

Harassment in the Workplace ...origin, religion, age, and disability. Depending on state law and other circumstances, additional characteristics such as sexual orientation and marital status may also be protected. An effective harassment prevention training program must touch upon all of these categories. This one-hour course will provide an overview of the characteristics of various forms of harassment and what can be done more...

Supervisor and Manager Sexual Harassment Awareness Multi-State Edition ...ding to sexual harassment. This role includes knowing the laws, guidelines, policies, and resources for correcting, preventing, and investigating sexual harassment complaints. This two-hour course can help your company demonstrate its commitment to a fair, responsible, and healthy organizational environment, free from sexual harassment and intimidation. This course is designed specifically to more...

HIPAA Securing Protected Health Information ... data creates a threat to a patient's privacy rights. The law includes specific safeguards for patients' health information. The law that establishes these rules does not place any specific requirements on employers. However, many employers sponsor healthcare insurance plans for employees and share protected health information about employees with organizations covered by the new rules. more...

Americans with Disabilities Act ADA ...ericans with Disabilities Act. The ADA of 1990 makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment against a qualified individual with a disability. The Act requires all private, state, or local government employers with 15 or more employees to make sure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to apply for jobs and work in positions for which they are qualified, have equal access to more...

Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA ...ts on minimum wages and overtime. The FLSA became federal law in 1938 as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal--its primary aim was to respond to growing concerns about poor working conditions in many industries. The FLSA regulates wages, maximum hours of work and overtime, as well as child labor. This one-hour course enables participants to understand the main provisions of the act, helping more...

Equal Employment Opportunity EEO ...equested information prohibited under anti-discrimination laws. It is essential to know the types of questions that can, and cannot, be asked in order to avoid charges of unfair discrimination. In this course, you will learn the Equal Employment Opportunity laws that prohibit unfair discrimination in the workplace and how these laws apply to you. This course will educate you on how to avoid more...

Family Medical Leave Act FMLA ... it affecting your job? It is essential to understand the law of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in order to protect yourself from losing your job or benefits. FMLA is only relevant to U.S. based employers and their U.S. based employees. In this course, you will learn the guidelines of FMLA and how they apply to you. This course will educate you on who is eligible and covered under more...

Antitrust--Talking with the Competition Collaboration is an agreement to engage in some form of economic activity with another party. In modern markets, competitors may decide to collaborate for a number of reasons. These include funding innovation projects, sharing marketing or distribution costs, or implementing best practices in production or services. Collaborating with a competitor can help your company to cut costs and deliver a more...

DC Circuit Theory This one-hour course is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of DC Electrical Theory. It is also intended to enhance your understanding of the operation and design of DC circuits, components, and sources. You will learn about basic DC electrical terms, equations and theory, and solve problems involving resistance, voltage, and current. The content in this course is designed to more...

CIW E-Commerce Designer Part 1: Foundations The aim of this course is to help prepare students for the CIW: E-Commerce Designer exam. This course presents students with both theoretical and practical instruction on E-Commerce Designer foundations. The instruction can be divided into three main parts: E-Commerce Foundations B2B Frameworks and Law and the Internet.  more...

Essentials of Business Law: The Legal Environment ...Law: The Legal Environment offers the student an overview of the information needed to identify the functions classifications and sources of law. The program identifies the structure of the state and federal court system as well as trial procedures jurisdiction issues and alternative resolution methods. The program also details crimes and torts relating to businesses as well as tort duties more...

Essentials of Business Law: Contract Law ...Law: Contract Law offers the student an overview of contract law essentials. This program identifies the elements of contract formation classifications of contracts and contract strategies applying to validity and successful contract negotiations. The program also covers rules of consideration validity illegality the statute of frauds third-party rights and breach of contract. The program more...

Essentials of Business Law: Employment Law ...Law: Employment Law offers the student an overview of employment law essentials. This program identifies the elements of agent and principal relationships the duties of agents and principals and ways in which agreements between these two parties are ratified. The program also identifies fair labor laws and labor and management issues including actions that constitute wrongful discharge and a more...

Essentials of Business Law: Cyberlaw Essentials of Business Law: Cyberlaw offers the student an overview of the essentials of cyberspace including how to conduct business in cyberspace and how to handle employment in cyberspace. The program also outlines cyberspace offenses forms of advertising on the Internet Internet recruiting the use of e-money and telecommuting.  more...

Interviewing Skills: Laws Governing the Interview Process In Interviewing Skills: Laws Governing the Interview Process participants are taught how to comply with laws regarding employee interviewing and selection including those treating equal employment opportunity pregnancy discrimination disabilities and immigration status. They explore the provisions guidelines and terms associated with each law and learn how to function within their parameters.  more...

Human Resource Law: Management's Role Human Resource Law: Management's Role provides a general overview of law affecting the workplace. These legal issues include wrongful discharge wage and hour laws and anti-discrimination statutes. In addition this program provides ways employers can minimize employee complaints and methods employers can use to handle document and seek legal counsel for claims.  more...

Human Resource Law: Americans with Disabilities Act ...Law: Americans with Disabilities Act provides in depth information about the Americans with Disabilities Act. This program instructs employers on the specifics of the law and the complications involved in determining which employees qualify for ADA protection. In addition this program provides defenses to discrimination claims an explanation of reasonable accommodation and undue hardship and more...

Human Resource Law: Equal Employment Opportunity Law ...Law: Equal Employment Opportunity Law defines the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws that affect all aspects of employment. This program details how EEO laws are enforced and provides guidelines to comply with EEO regulations. In addition this program addresses employer defenses to discrimination claims grounds for employee cases and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) more...

Human Resource Law: Family and Medical Leave Act ...Law: Family and Medical Leave Act you will learn the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and how to administer FMLA leave. You will learn which events qualify an employee for FMLA leave and the actions employers should avoid taking when protecting an employee's rights to FMLA leave. In addition you will learn job restoration rules how the FMLA is enforced and how more...

Human Resource Law: Fair Labour Standards Act In Human Resource Law: Fair Labor Standards Act you will learn the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) including which employers must comply with the law and which employees could be exempt from FLSA provisions. You will also learn the employee rights protected by FLSA how the FLSA is enforced and how employers can prevent employee claims.  more...

Human Resource Law: Understanding Privacy Rights ...Law: Understanding Privacy Rights " you will learn the laws that apply to employee and privacy rights in the workplace and how those laws might impact your company policies regarding searches seizures monitoring and e-communications. You will also learn how as an employer you can protect employees' rights how to conduct lawful e-communications and how to minimize your organization's more...