The Hiring Process—Advertising to Onboarding (´A to O´)
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. This presentation offers 'best practices' for each of the steps along the way to bringing in a new hire.
Learning Objectives:
- Properly (and legally) advertising your job openings.
- How to mitigate your company's risk of potential hiring discrimination claims, negligent hiring and other violations.
- 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.
Jonathan Light
Jonathan Fraser Light has more than 40 years of experience in the field of employment law. He is AV Preeminent-rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest peer-review rating possible. He has been voted a Southern California “Super Lawyer” 18 times. As co-founder and managing partner at LightGabler LLP, Jon consults with almost 2,000 companies throughout California regarding their day-to-day employment law needs.
Jon has been successful in jury trials, appellate cases, Labor Commission hearings and binding arbitration claims involving wrongful termination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, class action wage & hour, and other employment-related matters. He has also appeared on behalf of employers before the federal EEOC and Labor Department, the state Civil Rights Department, the National Labor Relations Board, and other government agencies involved with employment law issues.
Jon speaks dozens of times a year to employer and human resources groups including chapters of the Employer Advisory Council, Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) and Society for Human Resource Management.
Jon graduated from the UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in history from UCLA and is a graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is the author of two editions of the nationally acclaimed and award-winning book, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball.