Meeting

This session is designed to discuss the differences between service, emotional support and therapy animals in the workplace and the must-know items for employers.

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Winona Area SHRM will be hosting a meeting titled Employment Law Update to be held at the Green Mill. Networking will take place from 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and the presentation will begin promptly at 12:00 p.m. No cost to attend for Winona Area SHRM members; non-members cost is $15.00.

Employment law and Human Resources is an ever changing environment. Sometimes it changes so quickly it’s tough to know what the law is going to be from week to week.

The session will cover:

E-Verify and Other Employment Verification Programs

U.S. law requires employers to verify the individuals they hire may legally work in the United States. Steven Warner, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employee, will present on these Employment Verification programs.

This workshop is designed to give HR practitioners a basic understanding of HR analytics. During this workshop, participants will learn the basic concept of HR analytics, its importance to HR and business, what HR analytics is designed to address and how to establish an analytics function within an HR department. The goal for this workshop is to help reduce HR practitioner apprehension of analytics and set the foundation for broader and more effective use of analytics across the HR field.

HR Roundtable and Ice Cream Social

Join your fellow HR professionals for FREE lunch and ice cream at Nate & Ally's. Winona SHRM will be hosting our first (of hopefully more) HR roundtable. This will be your opportunity to ask questions, discuss other organization's policies and procedures /and/or to receive another HR professional's opinion.

Networking from 11:30am-12pm

Program from 12pm - 1pm

Attendees will learn about best practices to manage UI issues in their workplace and gain the knowledge about employer rights and responsibilities under UI law. The session is appropriate for business professionls who are new to UI issues as well as those who'd like to discuss specific UI topics in more detail.

We will cover:

Barry Platt from MN DEED will discuss the following in his presentation:

• Overview of Veterans Employment Services at the Minnesota Workforce Centers
• Discuss why you should hire veterans
• Veteran job-seeks, veterans with disabilities and their barriers to employment
• Hiring Incentives and Tax credits
• Partnership opportunities

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Please join us for our Annual SHRM Holiday Party - this year we are hosting a luncheon at Jefferson Pub & Grill! Winona SHRM is providing lunch (more details coming soon) and a monthly speaker.

Speaker Details:

How to Handle Employee Mental & Medical Illnesses

Creating a Culture of Sanity: How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress

When we experience frustration in the workplace, most of us react automatically in ways that damage cohesion and collaboration. By learning simple steps to short-circuit these destructive behaviors we can shift our responses to ones that develop mutual respect and restore sanity for ourselves and our organizations.