As the year ends, it's time for a year in review! We will cover the major court decisions this year that impacted all employers, including the Supreme Court decisions regarding the FLSA, religious accommodations, and DEI efforts. We will also review critical legislation ranging from the Speak Out Act to the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act. In addition, we will cover agency rule-making that is likely to become final in 2024. As we close out 2023, we will also look forward to 2024 and the likely labor and employment developments that we can expect ranging from legislation to pending Supreme Court decisions, involving ADA “testers,” discrimination and the limitation of power with respect to government agencies. Join us on December 14 at 11 a.m. to discuss these topics.

As we go into an election year, various Federal agencies are making the push to implement certain long-standing items on their regulatory agendas. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is looking to continue to strengthen its position that most workers are employees and not independent contractors. To this end, the DOL is proposing streamlined regulations to “test” whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. Similarly, the DOL is working to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The Federal Trade Commission is working to eliminate most noncompete agreements by regulatory mandate. While the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is looking to strengthen its position with respect to recruiting and AI and potential discriminatory implications involving this new technology. Simultaneously, the EEOC continues its enforcement initiatives involving underserved communities and potential barriers to the advancement of certain protected classes.

Join us on Thursday, January 11th, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m. for our monthly compliance webinar to discuss these regulatory initiatives and their impact on the day-to-day business operations of employers.

Bonus Compliance January Webinar

Pittsburgh Paid Sick Act & Allegheny Sick Leave Review

They’ve been in effect for a couple of years, but penalties were delayed a year.
Now fully in effect – with penalties, investigations and “strict” enforcement.
Join CTR and Compliance Specialist, Anne Lavelle, Thursday January 18th @ 11AM where we will review these laws, go through working examples and answer your questions!

CTR PAY360: Effortless Payroll Solution

We are excited to announce the launch of our new service, CTR PAY360! You asked and we're delivering! As you may have read in the December newsletter, our President, Bridget Escobar, mentioned we had clients coming to us to do their payroll. Whether it was someone retiring, a function that was added to another person's plate, or just the need to have an expert do it, this is how CTR PAY360 was born. CTR PAY360 is a fully outsourced payroll solution where we do your payroll and manage the payroll functions such as entering new hires in the system, entering status changes, updating a deduction code, and reviewing your reports to ensure a seamless payroll.

Join us on January 25th, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. for a webinar as we dive deeper into this service and give you real-life examples of how this can help your organization!

While hospitality businesses seem to bear the brunt of these audits, any employer is at risk. This session is a must-attend for anyone looking to keep their business in compliance with DOL regulations. CTR Compliance Specialist, Anne Lavelle, will cover a range of crucial topics, including the audit process, common compliance issues and best practices to avoid penalties. Q&A will be enabled so you can have your burning questions answered!

Join us on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m. for our monthly compliance webinar to discuss these regulatory initiatives and their impact on the day-to-day business operations of employers.

February Product Webinar- Attract & Hire, February 29, 2024 @ 11am EST

Attracting and retaining top talent is one of the greatest challenges employers face. In today’s climate, employees have their choice and if the hiring experience doesn’t meet expectations, they won’t stick around. Optimizing every stage of the recruiting process will help to streamline the hiring process overall.

Join us for our February Webinar: Attract & Hire to learn how to streamline candidate hiring with customizable solutions. Whether you want to scale your team quickly, source remote candidates or reach diverse talent, Attract & Hire solutions will enable you to quickly locate, interview and onboard the best-fit candidates for your needs. And we’ll show you the NEW AI features that include job posting writing & more!

Join us for an enlightening session on employee classification and discover the ins and outs of the Fair Labor Standard Acts (FLSA) including the latest updates! CTR’s Compliance Guru, Anne Lavelle, will help equip you with the necessary knowledge for maintaining compliance within your organization.

Key Insights:

• Decode the complexities of employee classification
• Navigate FLSA compliance with confidence
• Explore the latest 2024 FLSA updates

Q&A will be open so your questions can be answered and SHRM credits are available.

Secure your spot now!

Join us on Thursday, March 14th, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m. for our monthly compliance webinar.

March Product Webinar- Time & Labor Management, March 28th, 2024 @ 11am EST

Inaccurate time entries, whether intentional or not, can tie up time and resources while negatively impacting your bottom line – not to mention the headaches they can create for your payroll and HR departments. It can also be a challenge to create and manage schedules that give your employees the work/life balance they want while also meeting your business needs. There is a better way!

Join us to learn more about our Time and Labor Management solution and we’ll show how you can:
• Reduce inefficiency and errors.
• Improve and simplify scheduling – for employees and managers.
• Approve time off requests, monitor attendance/punches, track paid time off, manage overtime & compensatory time, and receive notifications.
• Eliminate time clock errors with geofencing, easily create map boundaries and limit employee punches to work locations within these boundaries.
• Facilitate strategic workforce engagement, collaboration, and compliance

Register Now!

You don't want to miss this one! Join us for an action-packed HR & Compliance Summit at the beautiful PNC Park. Hear about key legislative updates, including Pittsburgh & the … Continued

April Product Webinar- Boost Employee Performance & Engagement with Share & Perform

An Employee Recognition & High Performance Management Tool

If you want to create a workplace that attracts, develops, and keeps the best employees, we have an answer for you – our Share & Perform solution.

Recognizing employees beyond the context of work serves as a valuable opportunity—one that can boost employee engagement and customer experience. With Share & Perform, you can enable multi-directional employee communication that drives toward a transformative company culture.

Join our webinar where we walk through how to:

Build and strengthen your company culture
Recognize and reward performance
Improve employment engagement
Easily connect and collaborate across the entire organization
Empower employees with access to tools and data that provide insight into their performance
Enable employees to stay aligned regardless of location, function, or project
Add some fun to your recognition efforts by incorporating gamification and rewards

Secure your spot now!

Join us on April 25th, 2024 at 11 a.m. for our monthly product webinar.

May Compliance Webinar: Understanding the New Rules on OT, Non-Competes & Defining Disparate Discrimination

In this webinar, we will:
Review the raised salary threshold for employees exempt from OT requirements under the FLSA & how this adjustment will impact your organization & businesses nationwide
Explore the FTC ban of employee noncompete agreements & review the implications for your company's hiring policies and employee contracts
Distinguish between "Disparate Treatment" and "Disparate Impact" Discrimination & show you how to recognize, analyze and prevent ALL types of discrimination
Unveil how seemingly neutral policies can harbor hidden biases & give you insights into how discrimination affects different protected classes, from age to sexual orientation

And as always, we will let you know how to ensure your organization remains compliant and competitive in today’s evolving regulatory landscape

This is a MUST-ATTEND for ALL Employers! Secure your spot now!
Join us on May 9th 2024 at 11:00AM for our monthly compliance webinar.

Exciting New Launch: HR Assistant

You Asked, We Listened! We're so excited to launch our NEW HR Assistant solution and tell you all about it! We will review what's included in our new HR Assistant solution & cover our current Payroll Assistant as well! Join Bridget Escobar & Jason Simmons as they tell you how we can make your life so much easier! Be the first to know and learn about this awesome new solution! Register below!

Some included features:

-Employee Portal Support: Provide your employees with direct access to support for portal login, troubleshooting and navigation

-Initiate and facilitate online new hire onboarding: Streamline the onboarding process with our assistance in managing and guiding new hires through the process

-Employee Online Benefit Enrollment Assistance: We help employees navigate the online benefit enrollment portal for seamless enrollment

and more!!

Register below!

Join us on May 22nd, 2024 at 11 a.m. for our BONUS product webinar.

May Product Webinar- Accelerate Employee Development with Learn & Grow

Employees are looking for more value from their employers, with learning and development opportunities being at the top of their lists. Providing the training employees need when they join your team along with access to continued professional development helps boost productivity and creates a better employee experience.

isolved Learn & Grow delivered by CTR Payroll | HR is an end-to-end Learning Management System (LMS) that enables businesses to upskill current employees to do their jobs more effectively while keeping your business compliant.

Join us to see firsthand how a powerful, comprehensive learning management system can spark continuous growth and feedback. This includes a look at our new 85,000+ course library that allows any employer in any industry to truly customize their employees’ learning path. Register now!

An Employee Recognition & High Performance Management Tool

Join us on May 23rd, 2024 at 11 a.m. for our monthly product webinar.

June Compliance Webinar: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual harassment and the Courts: Real life case studies as to where employers went right or wrong and the remedies imposed by the EEOC and the courts when sexual harassment is found to exist in the workplace.

We will discuss:
• The appropriate preventative measures to have in place before a sexual harassment complaint occurs
• How to conduct a thorough investigation of such a complaint
• Addressing findings of sexual harassment in the workplace – appropriate discipline and remediation
• Looking at sexual harassment through the lens of court cases to identify common mistakes and concerning patterns in workplaces.

Register below!

Join us on June 13th, 2024 at 11:00AM for our monthly compliance webinar.

Solution Webinar: Predictive People Analytics

Grow HR's Impact with the Power of Predictive People Analytics Solution!

By harnessing Predictive People Analytics, you gain access to valuable benchmark data to help attract and keep top talent, all while predicting attrition on both individual and group scales.
Join us as we show you first-hand how Predictive People Analytics :
-empowers your HR team with intuitive enterprise-grade
analytics
- provides you actionable insights to support more strategic decision-making
-gives you easy-to-use and configurable dashboards that help you analyze historical data, identify trends and patterns, and provide insights into employee turnover, performance, and engagement without extensive training or data expertise.

Register below!

Join us on June 27th, 2024 at 11 a.m. for our monthly product webinar.