Reducing Your Liability Exposure by Strategically Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Employment Law Training will focus on how training of supervisors and employees can be a strategic decision to mitigate risk to their organization by limiting monetary damages to a Company, therefore affecting the Company’s financials. By embracing a work culture that decides to strategically support compliance training for its employees and making this a part of their overall workforce strategic plan, employers can prevent lawsuits and complaints. This session will explain how the combination of employment policies/procedures, harassment reporting, and preventive training work together to prevent employer liability and punitive damages. By implementing training into the workforce and reducing risk, the Human Resource professional can elevate to a business partner in their Company’s organizational structure and showing how this type of training focused on employees is a strategic step.

Steven E. Schulte is principal at The Schulte Law Firm inLittle Rock,Arkansas.  His practice consists mainly of employment law, contract matters, estate planning, and general business law.  Mr. Schulte graduated with honors from theUniversityofArkansasat Little Rock School of Law, where he served on the UALR Law Review.  Previously, Mr. Schulte received a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Central Arkansas and a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas.

Mr. Schulte has lifetime Certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.  He was selected as the Arkansas SHRM Professional of the Year and as the Central Arkansas Human Resource Association’s Outstanding Member.  Mr. Schulte has served as State Director of the Arkansas Society for Human Resource Management; President of the Central Arkansas Human Resources Association; Arkansas Quality Award Examiner; Secretary of the Arkansas Institute of Industrial Engineering; Board Chair of the Central Arkansas Human Resources Association; and Board Member and Vice President of the Humane Society of Pulaski County.

Mr. Schulte previously served as president of Prostaff Staffing Services and as Executive Vice-President of Staffmark.  He served on Staffmark’s Board of Directors during its tenure as a publicly traded company.

APPROVED for (1) One Hour of Strategic Business Management recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

"The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."

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