HR Documentation and Notice Requirements: If It's Not Written, It Didn't Happen!

When a company is sued, its defense often depends on the documents it kept. This HR documentation and notice requirements webinar works backward from the courtroom, showing what goes wrong when defense attorneys lack the right records and what goes right when they have them.

You'll review the basic recordkeeping rules of key federal employment laws and what to keep to defend claims under the FLSA for overtime, Title VII for discrimination, the FMLA and the ADA. The session also covers using documentation to prove FLSA exemptions and documentation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act.

You'll also learn about record retention, storage and destruction, which notices must be posted and how, and case studies on documentation.

• Explain why records and notices matter and how to retain, store and destroy them
• Apply the recordkeeping requirements of key employment laws
• Use documentation to support FLSA exemptions and overtime defenses
• Identify which notices must be posted and how to post them
• Learn from case studies on documentation

• Basic documents required under several federal employment laws
• Why compliance matters
• Documentation in defending Title VII cases
• Records the government requires for overtime cases
• Using documentation to prove FLSA exemptions
• Documents and notices for FMLA and ADA leave
• Documentation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act
• Record retention, storage and destruction
• Required notices and how to post them
• Case studies on documentation

Failing to document can be fatal to a defense; for example, not tracking employee hours can sink an overtime case. Some employers document the wrong things. This session explains what must be documented and what should be documented to strengthen your defense if a lawsuit is filed.

It suits compliance officers, HR managers and staff, CFOs, office and hiring managers, company presidents, business owners and risk managers.

• Compliance Officers
• Human Resources
• CFOs
• Office Managers
• Company Presidents
• Employers and Business Owners
• Hiring Managers
• HR Managers/Supervisors
• Risk Managers

Stuart Silverman has been practicing law for almost 30 years and is the principal of the Law Offices of Stuart M. Silverman, P.A., located in Boca Raton, Florida. The emphasis of his practice is in the area of labor and employment law, and business and commercial litigation. Mr. Silverman has represented both private and public employers, as well as individual employees in a whole host of complex business disputes and employment settings at administrative levels, and state and federal trial and appellate courts. His extensive employment litigation experience includes claims under age, race, sex discrimination, wage and hour claims, whistleblower and retaliation claims, ADA and FMLA claims, public employee's claims, as well as disputes under employment contracts, non-compete agreements, trade secrets disputes, and partnership breakups. Mr. Silverman is a frequent speaker on his areas of practice.

Mr. Silverman is also a member of The Workplace Violence Prevention Institute (WPVI), a group formed to investigate solutions and strategies from a proactive and systemic perspective to minimize the risk of workplace violence, specifically violence caused by employees or former employees. He earned his B.A. degree, with high honors, and his J.D. degree from Rutgers University. Mr. Silverman is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.