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Webinar - HR Development: Validity Matters for More than Just Defensibility
What do we do now that we’ve hired the best person? Human Resources Development encompasses programs that ensure that performance, development, talent management, and succession planning are held to the same high standards as the organization’s hiring and selection processes. Join Dr. Thomas Carnahan, Senior Manager of People Insights, as he walks us through the ins and outs of HR Development and outlines practical steps you can use at your company.
Webinar - Navigating Compliance Changes for Federal Contractors: Key Updates From the First Six Months of the Trump Administration
Recent developments in federal compliance regulations are reshaping the landscape for federal contractors, particularly around EEO obligations and diversity initiatives. This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of the latest updates during the first six months of President Trump’s second term and provide a preview of what changes may still be coming.
Webinar - Religious Discrimination and Accommodation Refresher
On the heels of a recent Supreme Court decision that changed a long-established standard of review, HR professionals need to revisit how their organizations handle religious issues in the workplace. Join Berkshire Senior Consultant, Matt Nusbaum, for a refresher on religious discrimination and accommodation requirements for private employers, including updates to keep your policies and practices up to date.
Webinar - Auditing Your DEI Practices – Two Former EEOC Officials Share What You Need to Know
During this webinar, former EEOC Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic of Resolution Economics and former EEOC senior legal advisor Lynn Clements of Berkshire Associates will provide attendees with a roadmap for navigating this challenging topic. In an engaging conversation, our presenters will share their insights on the current DEI landscape.
Web Podcast - The Sound of HR Science
Are you looking for guidance on how to navigate this new merit-based HR landscape? You're in luck. Berkshire has launched The Sound of HR Science, a series of casual webcast conversations. This short-form, educational podcast is designed to explore advanced HR strategy in a way that listeners can understand and implement. Tune-in to learn from Berkshire's resident thought leaders and I/O Psychologists, as they chat about the science of human resources as it relates to the employee lifecycle.
Webinar - 90 Days into the New Administration: Analyzing Impacts on EEO Compliance
In the first 90 days of President Trump’s second administration, the landscape of federal employment compliance seems to be shifting under our feet. With the blizzard of executive orders, actions, and lawsuits, it can be difficult to see the current landscape, much less manage it. Join Berkshire’s Senior Director of People Insights, Lynn Clements, and Senior Consultant, Matt Nusbaum, as they break-down recent updates related to many of the topics EEO compliance professionals worry about most.
Webinar - How to Unwind Your EO 11246 AAP
In this webinar, Managing Consultant Rachel Rubino will discuss how contractors can unwind their EO 11246 affirmative action programs. Rachel will walk through a checklist of the things that need to be reviewed, identifying those that need to be removed, and others that need to be modified to remove references to EO 11246 while still maintaining compliance with Section 503 and VEVRAA requirements.
Webinar - What You Need to Know About CA Pay Data Reporting
Join Berkshire experts Heather Gale and Daniel Chan as they break down what you need to know about preparing for and filing your CA Pay Report. In this session, you’ll gain a clear understanding of what’s required, who must be included, what’s changed, and how to efficiently manage the reporting requirements.
Webinar - The Impact of Recent Anti-DEI Executive Orders on GovCon Compliance Strategies
This session will break down key compliance shifts and offer strategic guidance to help you navigate recent executive actions aimed at ending “illegal DEI” efforts in the federal government, among federal contractors and grantees, and among private employers. Our hosts will focus on Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity”.
Webinar - Why Contractors (and everyone) Need to Analyze Pay Data for Discrimination
In this webinar, we will unpack the following topics: Relevance of existing state and federal laws related to compensation; How pay transparency intersects with proactive non-discrimination analyses; and Upstream work organizations can do to stay ahead of discrimination claims such as proactive analyses of pay differences, outlier analyses, market analysis, and job analysis.
Webinar - Vetting A.I. Vendors
In this webinar, our experts tackle critical questions to help contractors properly structure their selection process, choose vendors, and implement effective selection tools in today's highly automated business environment.
Webinar - 2024 NILG Conference Analysis
In this webinar our expert panel of Lynn Clements, Matt Nusbaum and Rick Holt break down the biggest takeaways from this year's conference. What topics dominated the discussions? What caught us by surprise? And what are the top compliance items you should focus on for the rest of 2024?
Webinar - Reflecting on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Affirmative Action in Higher Ed - One Year Later
In this webinar, Margo Pave (Director, Human Capital Strategy Group at Resolution Economics), and Cheryl Boyer (Director, Diversity Services at Berkshire) will discuss the legal landscape affecting employers since the Supreme Court decision and offer perspectives on what employers should consider when assessing their equal opportunity and DEI&A programs in light of these developments.
Webinar - Job Analysis: Harness Your People Power With This Crucial Strategy
Understanding job roles and the requirements that accompany them may sound like a simple enough concept, but there is an art and methodology to this strategy that every organization could benefit from applying. Join Dr. Thomas Carnahan and Allegra Hill as they discuss the fundamentals of job analysis and outline how this foundational tactic influences almost every HR process at your company.
Webinar - Attracting Individuals with Disabilities to Your Organization
For federal contractors struggling to meet their compliance requirements under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, Berkshire teams up with Disability Solutions to bring our clients practical advice for recruiting and hiring people with disabilities.
White Paper: Pay Equity Roadmap
The first step in your process should be determining the organizational goal. There can be different reasons to be investigating pay equity, and different goals would call for a different prescriptive action.
Webinar - Accuracy is Everything: How a Time & Pay Checkup can help protect your company from costly wage and hour mistakes
In a landscape marked by regulatory complexity, ensuring compliance with wage and hour laws is imperative for businesses of all sizes with hourly employees, as small missteps in this arena can have costly consequences. Join Alison Rose, a partner at Berkshire’s parent company Resolution Economics, for an insightful webinar as she discusses the pitfalls companies face in this area and how you can protect your company with Time & Pay Checkups.
Webinar - Pay Equity 101 with Berkshire
Join Berkshire's Dr. Thomas Carnahan as he breaks down the basics of Pay Equity. He will also discuss: impact of pay equity legislation, how to evaluate your pay data, and practices to promote pay equity. This highly-popular webinar was updated and re-recorded for 2024.
Webinar - Higher Ed Headaches: From Tenured Positions to Job Title Struggles
As an affirmative action professional in the higher education arena, you may run into some circumstances that are unique to this industry. When dealing with this uniqueness, do you feel certain areas of the plan are more challenging than others? Join Berkshire's Julie Dominguez and Samuel Stegmann as they discuss special insights on how to handle your Higher Ed headaches with industry-specific strategy.
Webinar - Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in Higher Ed: What Could This Mean for Employers?
Join Resolution Economics’ Vicki Lipnic, former Commissioner and Acting Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), Resolution Economics’ Margo Pave (Director, Human Capital Strategy Group), Berkshire’s Lynn Clements (Director, Audit and HR Services), and Cheryl Boyer (Director, Diversity Services) as they unpack the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in higher education.
Webinar - A Deep Dive into Internal and External Availability
Join Berkshire Experts, Alexis Seibert & Stephanie Stahr as they discuss the ins and outs of availability settings. They will cover the different types of availability, the importance of accurate recruitments areas and census coding, how you identify feeder jobs, and how availability plays a part in setting your placement goals for the year.
Webinar - The Need for AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Bias Audits
Join experts Victoria A. Lipnic, Esq., Gurkan Ay, Ph.D., and Ye Zhang, Ph.D., from Berkshire’s new corporate partner Resolution Economics, as they discuss these new regulatory requirements, how AI Bias Audits can help you comply with them, and what goes into an AI Bias Audit.
Webinar - How to Manage Remote Employees in your AAP
This webinar will cover the most common types of remote employees, suggest how remote employees could be mapped to AAPs, how to handle annotations, and identify reasonable recruitment areas for job groups with remote workers.
Webinar - Planning for 2023 Reporting Deadlines
Join Berkshire experts Rachel Rubino and Julie Dominguez as they walk you through 2023’s compliance related deadlines and provide you with strategies to ensure you meet them.
Cheat Sheet - Personnel Action Coding
When it comes to managing your workforce, it's important to develop specific personnel action codes for hires, promotions, and terminations in your applicant tracking and HRIS systems. In this cheat sheet, you'll find some commonly used codes that you can apply to your own workforce management.
Webinar - How to Spot Hidden Discrimination in Recruiting
In this webinar, we will explore these hidden areas of discrimination and discuss ways to identify and transform your approach to make sure you are providing equal employment opportunities to applicants seeking employment at your company.
Checklist - Accommodations 101
Properly managing accommodations in the workplace is no easy task. That's why Berkshire has put together a checklist of a few key action items to help contractors like you navigate your accommodations process and remain ADA compliant.
Webinar - Understanding OFCCP's New Compensation Directive
In this 30-minute session, Lynn Clements, Berkshire's Director of Audits and Regulatory Affairs, and Thomas Carnahan, our Manager of Compensation Services, will briefly explain the directive and take your questions.
Webinar - Illinois Pay Reporting - Are You Ready?
Watch as veteran employment attorney Maryelena Zaccardelli of Michael Best & Friedrich and Berkshire’s pay equity manager Dr. Thomas Carnahan discuss the ins and outs of the Illinois’ Equal Pay Registration Certification requirements.
Webinar - Performing an In-Depth Analysis of Your Applicant Selection Processes
You have conducted a preliminary review of your applicant and hiring process and have identified statistically significant adverse impact. Now what? Join Berkshire expert, Heather Gale, as we explore what to do next when your initial analysis suggests a potential problem in your selection process.
Webinar - A Compensation Conversation with Special Guest Craig Leen
Special guest and Former OFCCP Director Craig Leen and Berkshire pay equity powerhouses Dr. Thomas Carnahan and Lynn Clements, Esq. share insights about trends emerging in the rapidly evolving world of compensation.
Webinar - Market Analysis Seminar
Would a market study help your business's bottom line? Tune into our session to learn the benefits of conducting a market analysis and ask questions of Berkshire's Pay Equity Manager, Thomas J. Carnahan, Ph.D.
Webinar - 2014-2018 EEO Census Tabulation - What You Need to Know
Join Berkshire expert Katie Johnson as she shares insights into the latest census data. We will also review the implications to consider when deciding when to implement the new data in your organization.
Webinar - Accommodations 101
Berkshire's Tiffany Hughes and Kristen Johnson will discuss an employer’s obligations regarding accommodations in the workplace and explore common situations that may arise and how to address them.
Webinar - Developing a Compensation Philosophy
Join Berkshire's Pay Equity Manager, Dr. Thomas Carnahan, for a discussion on both simple and complex strategies towards creating defensible compensation structures and philosophies.
Webinar - California Pay Data Reporting Update
Cindy Karrow, Managing Consultant, and Dr. Thomas Carnahan, Pay Equity Manager, teamed up to discuss the ramifications of the new law, what data will be required, and who will be required to file.
Webinar - Using Data to Enhance Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Join Berkshire's Cheryl Boyer and Thomas Carnahan to learn how to use data to enhance your diversity and inclusion efforts.
Webinar - Things to Consider to Calculate Accurate Availability Percentages
Join Berkshire's Katie Johnson to learn the things you need to consider when calculating accurate availability percentages.
Resource - Pay Equity Checklist
It can be intimidating to start your own pay equity analysis. But the experts at Berkshire have you covered!
2023 NILG Conference Analysis + Recap Webinar
For years, the National Industry Liaison Group (NILG) annual conference has been the destination for federal contractors and consultants to learn about industry trends, connect with other leaders in the space, and to share unique perspective on compliance with others on a national stage. And every year, Berkshire sends our consultants and thought leaders to fan out to see and experience it all.
White Paper - Definitions for EEO-1
Berkshire breaks down the definitions for EEO-1 contractors in this useful download.
White Paper - Definitions for EEO-4
Berkshire breaks down the definitions for EEO-4 contractors in this useful download.
White Paper - Definitions for EEO-6
Berkshire breaks down the definitions for EEO-6 contractors in this useful download.
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