Welcome to my new blog/website! It’s been more than 5 weeks since my last posting. The reason for such a long time lag is simple: This website was being created. All of my content (i.e., posts, links, comments, media, link exchanges, everything) has been transferred to this new site. My old site at BlogSpot will be deleted shortly. Thanks to Alex Mielus from Bucharest, Romania, for helping me with this.

Also, on November 8, 2007, from 1 pm-3:30 pm CST, I’ll be doing an unemployment compensation seminar to be broadcasted live for the Human Resources Training Center. I’ll be doing this seminar in partnership with David Prosnitz, the President and Founder of Personnel Planners Inc., an unemployment compensation cost reduction and control company based in Chicago. Below is the HRTC’s course description:

Title: Learn How To Reduce Unemployment Claims And Save Your Bottom Line
Date/Time: 11/8/2007 – 2:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern

Format: Audio Conference

Description: Many business people don’t consider the alarming cost of unemployment compensation (UC) when separating employees. Some businesses have improperly trained employees representing them through the UC claims process. Others just accept these costs believing that there is nothing that can be done about them. They’re wrong.

Through education and training, businesses can learn how separations for misconduct or quits that occur through no fault of their own will protect their businesses from the high cost of UC claims.

Although factoring UC into your operating expenses and employment policies may, as a practical matter, limit at will employment, it will help you better understand labor and employment law and government bureaucracy. It will also protect you from the high cost of UC taxes.

Through attending this audio course, you will learn:

* How much an unemployment claim can cost your business
* About an ex-employee’s eligibility or ineligibility for UC
* How to terminate for misconduct, including bad behavior, excessive absenteeism and tardiness
* About the what, when, why and how of documentation
* When to contest, or not contest, a UC claim
* When or if to appeal a claim
* When to engage 3rd-party professionals in assisting your UC minimization efforts
* How following certain UC guidelines in making terminations relates to other labor and employment laws

This audio presentation will be accompanied by a simple but effective PowerPoint presentation and a comprehensive handout summarizing the seminar.

About Your Speakers

Charles Krugel

Charles is a management-side labor and employment lawyer and HR counselor with his own Chicago-based practice. He has 14 years of experience and has spent the last seven years running his own practice. Also, for the past 1 1/2 years, Charles has been the Director of Legal and Compliance Services for the Human Resource Store, an HR consulting company in Chicago.

David Prosnitz

David is the President and founder of Personnel Planners, Inc., an unemployment tax cost control company. Personnel Planners was established in 1981 and represents more than 1,000 employing units nationwide.

Cannot Attend The Live Presentation?

This presentation is also available on CD/tape after the initial broadcast.

About Webcasts / Audio Conferences / Podcasts: Webcasts, audio conferences, and podcasts are presentations that you attend via the Internet, phone, or mobile device at a specified date and time for “live” versions, or at your convenience for “recorded” versions.

The live versions are interactive, meaning that participants can ask questions in real time, plus are a very cost-effective form a training because 1) you receive fast, convenient learning without any out-of-office time; 2) you can invite as many colleagues as you’d like to listen in on a single phone line; 3) you incur no travel expenses; and 4) you and your colleagues are back at work immediately after the session ends!

And though with recorded versions you do lose the ability to ask questions, you gain the ability to hear the presentation numerous times and to share it with others in your office.

Handout materials and the phone number for live presentations are made available to you prior to the event via email from the presenter and from the “MyAccount” link on the menu bar. Copies of the presentations are included with recorded versions.

Live Price: $199.00
Recorded Price: $199.00
Live + Recorded Price: $279.00

To register for the course, or for more information, click here.