The Hiring Process—Advertising to Onboarding (“A-to-O”)

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JONATHAN FRASER LIGHT

Jon Light has over 30 years of employment law experience and has been named multiple times as one of Southern California’s “SuperLawyers” by Los Angeles Magazine. Jon and his LightGabler team consult with over 1500 companies throughout California regarding their day-to-day employment law needs. Jon has successful jury and court trial, appellate, Labor Commission and arbitration results in claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and class action. He has also testified in court as an expert on wage and hour issues. Heavily involved in local business, professional and community activities, Jon has been active in several organizations: CSUCI Business School Advisory Council; Ventura County Bar Association (Past President); Volunteer Legal Services; Footworks Youth Ballet; the Ventura County Boy Scout Council; Newbury Park High School Mock Trial team; and Camarillo Academic Olympics. He is also a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. Jon graduated from the UCLA School of Law as a member of the Law Review. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball. He lives in Camarillo with his wife of 34 years, Angela. Their 27-year-old twin daughters live on the east coast after attending Yale and

Credits CalBar - MCLE:1.25, HRCI - HR (General):1.25, SHRM - PDC:1.25

Tag(s) California Employment Law & Regulations, Employment Law, CAHR18, Conference on Demand, California-specific Credit

Description

How do you legally search for, interview, screen and hire employees? This advertising-to- onboarding ("A-to-O") guide will make sense of and keep your company compliant with all the laws that affect, and often impede, this process. the presentation will discuss the best practices and procedures for each of the steps along the way to bringing in a new hire. Topics include properly (and legally) advertising your job openings; how to mitigate your company's risk of potential hiring discrimination claims, negligent hiring and other violations; what to include in a job application; questions HR professionals can and cannot ask applicants at the interview stage; documents to present to the applicant during the hiring process including the wage notification form, confidentiality agreement and offer letter; hiring compliance issues such as background and reference checking, pre-employment drug testing (including recreational marijuana), specific job description duties and reasonable accommodations inquiries; how to property evaluate criminal background information and stay compliant with state and federal Green Rules; when to present an arbitration agreement and why new hires may need to be involved in updating their job description, in part to establish exempt salaried status.

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