Shaw HR Consulting

HR West Conference 2022
2022-03-09 13:30 - 14:45 (America/Denver) | Marriot Oakland City Center, 1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
For over a year, most employers have been managing COVID-related requests as short-term or temporary. With vaccines widely available, it’s a game-changer. The availability of vaccines now make the majority of COVID-related requests more long-term in nature. What does this shift mean? It means employers focused on returning employees to the workplace can begin managing COVID-related accommodation requests as long-term, and with it the need to employ a more robust ADA/FEHA interactive process to make long-term reasonable accommodation decisions. Rachel will review the CDC’s guidance regarding “high risk” individuals, and how to identify if you’re ready to make long-accommodation decisions and if you are, provide you with the tools to do the work including scripts, template letters, medical questionnaires and more.

Virtual HR Training Webinar
2022-03-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
Webinar: A Look Toward Leave Management Post-Pandemic
Many employers have reported the lowest leave levels in decades during the pandemic. Some hypothesize this was because there was very little travel allowed. Others believe that U.S. workers may not have taken less leave, just reported it less, e.g., an employee working from home may not have had to report it as it was not “seen” by supervisors. No matter the reason, all would agree 2020 and to some extent 2021 were an anomalies, and it is highly unlikely the need for leave management will go by the wayside post-pandemic.
While many employers are considering making permanent changes regarding working remotely and hybrid work environments, most employers should prepare for pre-pandemic leave levels to resurface. How then, should HR Departments manage leave as the world is coming out of a pandemic? Rachel will discuss both overall strategies as well as provide attendees with process to implement leave programming including forms and templates you can start using immediately.

PARMA Annual Conference
2022-03-02 09:00 - 10:15 | Disneyland Hotel Conference Center, 1150 West Magic Way, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Session Title: Working From Home, and a Possible Hybrid Future
Session Description: As we transition out of the pandemic, many employers are eager to return their employees to the traditional workplace. However, will that be a reality in our future given fears employees have regarding contracting illness? Understanding how to assess reasonableness of work from home accommodations as well as what considerations are important in regards to employer risk and employee safety in work from home and hybrid environments will be key in moving forward. Join us as we discuss best practice options and the potential risks to consider as to consider when offering a work from home option in the future.

Can We Manage Leave Again? Developing Your ADA Leave Management Program in a "Post-Vaccine America"
2021-11-19 09:00 - 14:00
How could you manage leave during a pandemic? With so many legitimate reasons for leave, and a push from public health officials to support leave for fear COVID would spread more in workplaces, your hands were tied. As we move forward, employers have to once again manage leave to reduce unnecessary leave, identify and discipline abuse of leave and engage with disabled persons who require high levels of leave. During this workshop we will not only guide you through identifying when and how you restart your leave management programs, but we will also provide you with the tools, scripts, letters, medical questionnaires and training that you need to start to reduce leaves wherever possible to improve services and lower costs.

In addition to sample materials and templates, it’s time to re-invest in yourself. Take this day to empower yourself with the knowledge you need to succeed, and pamper yourself with the Shaw HR Consulting HR Essentials Toolkit! Shaw HR Consulting has created an HR Essentials Toolkit that each attendee will get mailed to your doorstep as part of the training!
Shaw HR Consulting has been approved by the State Bar of California to provide MCLE credits for its trainings.
Shaw HR Consulting is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM and SHRM-SCPSM. Shaw HR Consulting trainings are also eligible for points for IPMA-HR Certified Professionals (IPMA-CP) and IPMA-HR Senior Certified Professionals (IPMA-SCP).

CalPELRA Annual Conference
2021-11-18 13:45 - 15:15 | Monterey Marriott Hotel, 350 Calle Principal, Monterey, CA, 93940, United States
Accommodation requests and needs in relation to mental/psychological disabilities are on the rise post COVID. When it comes to reasonable accommodations and mental disabilities most employers will agree situations have become more challenging, especially when related to stress, learning disabilities, working with others, and personality issues. And COVID has added a new layer of complexity. By law, a psychological/mental disability is a disability that employers must address under ADA/ FEHA. In this session, you’ll learn how to coordinate the Disability Interactive Process Hallway for psychological disabilities. You’ll learn about specific solutions when engaged in Reasonable Accommodations discussions with an employee. Because no matter how amazing your HR team is, we can’t do it all the same ways we did before COVID. Reality is dictating that we all have to find compliant ways to do the work, with less time.

National PELRA's 2021 Annual Training Conference
2021-11-06 08:00 - 2021-11-07 17:00 | Sheraton New Orleans, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 6, 2021:

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Pre-Conference Workshop with Rachel Shaw “ADA/ADAAA Compliance – Everything You Need to Do This Hard Stuff Right” – (separate registration required)

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 7, 2021

3:05 pm – 4:20 pm: “Leave Management: How a Pandemic Added Even More Acronyms to the “Leave Game”

Leave use is one of the most frustrating issues for employers to manage. From FMLA (Friday, Monday Leave Act) to the newest addition – FFCRA, to persons who are legitimately too disabled to work full-time, it nearly feels hopeless to combat the rising tide of leave use. In this session Rachel will skillfully walk you through what you can do to reduce leave use across your organization — even in a pandemic. She brings strategies that work, provides you with tools you can throw on your stationary and start using tomorrow, and does it with a sense of humor. Don’t miss one of Rachel’s most popular sessions where she shares leave management strategies that really work.

ACHRO/EEO 2021 Virtual Conference
2021-10-20 10:30 - 11:45
Managing COVID-Related Accommodation Requests in a “Post-Vaccine America”

Reasonable accommodation requests related to COVID-19 remain prevalent. Requests range from “I need to work from home because of a personal medical condition,” to specific work restrictions such as “cannot wear a face mask,” or “cannot work near people.” How do you manage reasonable accommodation requests related to COVID-19? Rachel and her firm have created a COVID-19 Disability Compliance Program that gives you not only answers but a step-by-step process for you to follow in order to create a program that will work for your organization. Leave with sample scripts, template letters, questionnaires, forms and a flowchart to ensure you not only do good and compliant work, but have a process to document it as well.

ADA Disability Compliance and Mental Health
2021-08-20 10:00 - 15:00
Accommodations related to stress-related psychological disabilities are on the rise. Situations can be challenging especially when linked to depression, stress, learning disabilities, working with others and personality issues. Layer in COVID-19, and circumstances can get even more complicated. Rachel is not a lawyer, she is an HR practitioner and as such focuses on process. While participants will leave the presentation with an understanding of ADA/FEHA law as it relates to mental and psychological disability compliance, the most valuable and tangible asset attendees will receive is a practical and implementable process with which to employ the disability interactive process. This means a step-by-step, how-to guide including templates, samples and scripts. Practical and field-tested, her process is simple, comprehensive and most importantly supports employers to make reasonable accommodation decisions they can feel confident about.

In addition to sample materials and templates, it’s time to re-invest in yourself. Take this day to
empower yourself with the knowledge you need to succeed, and pamper yourself with the Shaw HR Consulting HR Essentials Toolkit! Shaw HR Consulting has created an HR Essentials Toolkit that each attendee will get mailed to their doorstep as part of the training!

Shaw HR Consulting has been approved by the State Bar of California to provide MCLE credits for its trainings.
Shaw HR Consulting is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM and SHRM-SCPSM. Shaw HR Consulting trainings are also eligible for points for IPMA-HR Certified Professionals (IPMA-CP) and IPMA-HR Senior Certified Professionals (IPMA-SCP).

The ADA Interactive Process in the Era of COVID
2021-05-21 10:00 - 15:00
Disability compliance practitioners have been in emergency-response mode for over a year. Much of the day to day work that used to be priority was relegated to “we will get back to this after COVID”. Well, COVID is still a major HR focus for us, but we are also needing to get back to the projects and tasks that had to take a back seat for a while. In this workshop we will support you to dust off your ADA programs and reset them with a nod to what is possible for your team in this continued era of COVID. This training will provide you with a practical and streamlined process to keep your organization compliant and efficient with all of your ADA disability matters – from workers’ compensation, personal injuries and illnesses and COVID related accommodation needs. No matter how amazing your HR team is, they can’t do it all the same ways we did before. We have to find compliant ways to do the work, with less time. Leave this training with sample materials and templates you can implement immediately.

In addition to sample materials and templates, it’s time to re-invest in yourself. Take this day to empower yourself with the knowledge you need to succeed, and pamper yourself with the Shaw HR Consulting HR Essentials Toolkit! Shaw HR Consulting has partnered with Craven & Co. to create an HR Essentials Toolkit that each attendee will get mailed to your doorstep as part of the training!

Shaw HR Consulting has been approved by the State Bar of California to provide MCLE credits for its trainings.
Shaw HR Consulting is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM and SHRM-SCPSM. Shaw HR Consulting trainings are also eligible for points for IPMA-HR Certified Professionals (IPMA-CP) and IPMA-HR Senior Certified Professionals (IPMA-SCP).

CALPELRA Virtual Conference
2020-11-18 11:15 - 12:00
The Struggle Is Real: Managing Leave Misuse & Abuse
Disabilities impacting availability for work are your #1 disability cost driver. Let’s change that. Leave use is one of the most frustrating issues for employers to manage. From FMLA abuse to persons who are legitimately too disabled to work full-time, you can feel nearly hopeless combatting the rising tide of leave use. In this session you’ll learn what you can do to reduce leave, including how to measure and track leave better in your organization; how to create a culture that supports necessary leave, while holding accountable all employees to maintain regular and reliable attendance; and ultimately how you can use the disability interactive process to engage with employees with attendance issues.
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CalPelra Annual Conference
2020-11-16 - 2020-11-20
CALPELRA’s 2020 Annual Training Conference, the 45th annual CALPELRA conference, will be held over five days, November 16 – 20, 2020. Due to restrictions on large public gatherings imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to protect participants’ health and well-being, CALPELRA will present the 2020 Conference as a virtual event.
CALPELRA 2020: AGENTS OF CHANGE Unleash Your Superpowers!
Labor relations and HR professionals help their organizations adapt to social and economic challenges. Attuned to societal shifts and cultural policies, they’re able to predict the need for change and lead their organizations into the future and new opportunities.
Now more than ever they’re the superheroes of their organizations, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound – but they don’t deal with a single villain or arch enemy – they deal with a multitude of complex challenges. And they know that networks, like the kind they build through CALPELRA, help them expand their knowledge, skills, and influence.
Join us at CALPELRA 2020 and unleash your change agent superpowers – capitalize on your powers to maximize human potential and energize change.
Conference Format
#CALPELRA2020 will be held as a virtual event over five days, November 16-20, and will include over 75 great sessions, with exciting opportunities for live/real-time learning and networking and direct interaction with other Conference attendees, sponsors, and speakers.
Sessions cover a wide variety of labor and employment topics that are critical to HR professionals, including labor relations, negotiations, investigations, police and fire issues, leaves, and HR planning. This year’s program also includes many sessions focused on the critical issues of equity, inclusion, bias, and diversity in public sector labor and employment.
We’re excited by the possibilities this new virtual Conference format offers, and look forward to presenting a Conference event that meets if not exceeds the high standards we’ve set for CALPELRA’s Annual Conference. This won’t be your standard, run-of-the-mill collection of webinars; it will be an interactive, engaging experience using current technology tools. And you’ll be able to participate from your office or home; no need for expensive hotel nights or travel expenses.
Watch for more details coming soon, including program content.
https://www.calpelra.org/contentdisplay.aspx?id=1006&level=12&sublevel=13

ACHRO/EEO 2020
2020-10-30 09:00 - 10:15
COVID-19 ADA Disability Compliance: Managing Work from Home Accommodation Requests
What do you do when an employee provides a doctor’s a note stating they medically need to work from home because of COVID-19? How do employers manage employee requests to work from home at a time when you are asking all employees in their respective workgroups to return to the workplace full or part-time?
Rachel and her firm have created a COVID-19 Disability Compliance Program that gives you not only answers but a step-by-step process for you to follow in order to create a program that will work for your organization. Leave with sample scripts, template letters, forms and a flowchart to ensure you not only do good and compliant work, but have a process to document it as well.
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PELRAC 2020 Annual Training Conference
2020-10-01 10:00 - 11:20
Rachel will be presenting as part of PELRAC’s 2020 Annual Training Conference.
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020
10:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.
ABOUT THE TRAINING
COVID-19 ADA Disability Compliance Training:
Managing Work from Home Accommodation Requests
What do you do when an employee provides a doctor’s note stating they medically need to work from home because of COVID-19? How do employers manage employee requests to work from home at a time when you are asking all employees in their respective workgroups to return to the workplace full or part-time?
Rachel and her firm have created a COVID-19 Disability Compliance Program that gives you not only answers but a step-by-step process for you to follow in order to create a program that will work for your organization. Leave with sample scripts, template letters, forms and a flowchart to ensure you not only do good and compliant work, but have a process to document it as well.
REGISTER NOW

CalGovHR Q&A on Covid-19
2020-09-25
See CalGovHR website on how to sign up

NPELRA - COVID-19 ADA DISABILITY COMPLIANCE: MANAGING WORK FROM HOME REQUESTS
2020-08-26 11:00 - 12:00
What do you do when an employee provides a doctor’s note stating they medically need to work from home because of COVID-19?
How do employers manage employee requests to work from home at a time when you are asking all employees in their respective workgroups to return to the workplace full or part-time?
Rachel and her firm have created a COVID-19 ADA Disability Compliance Program that gives you not only answers but a step-by-step process for you to follow in order to create a program that will work for your organization. Leave with sample scripts, template letters, forms and a flowchart to ensure you not only do good and compliant work, but have a process to document it as well.
Sign up for this training at:
https://npelra.org/webinars.php

SHRM Northern California Webinar
2020-07-28 11:00 - 13:00
Managing ADA/FEHA Reasonable Accommodations in a Time of COVID-19: Work from Home Request
For more information visit https://www.shrmnorcal.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=b8ee0b45-71ac-47b4-903d-a99997d58cd4&CommunityKey=847ebd24-23ff-4472-9204-0b8c2d47c014&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar

Solano Napa Employer Advisory Council (SNEAC) Training
2020-05-07 08:00 - 17:00

National PELRA Annual Training Conference
2020-04-26 08:00 - 2020-04-27 17:00 | AT&T Hotel And Conference Center, 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX, 78705, United States
Pre-Conference Workshop – April 26, 2020 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.:
ADA/ADAAA Compliance – Everything You Need to Do This Hard Stuff Right!
Rachel Shaw is back by popular demand, and you won’t want to find out Monday that you missed the best training on the ADA your colleagues have ever attended! You will leave feeling empowered, entertained and with tangible tools to enhance your organization’s good work. Rachel is the expert on ADA Compliance and delivers a training like no other. Her high-energy,
solutions focused trainings are sought after by companies across the country because she brings real-life solutions that actually work! Rachel makes this topic entertaining and interesting, while not losing sight that the goal is to provide employers with tools and resources to enhance and improve their individual disability programs. During this pre-session, Rachel will expertly guide you through her trademarked disability interactive process protocol, “The Hallway.” This step-by-step protocol
to ADA compliance will then be used as a foundation to tackle some of the most complex disability matters facing public sector employers today, including psychological disabilities, claims of “my disability made me do it,” workers’ compensation frequent flyers, and more!

Plenary Session – April 27, 2020 at 3:05pm – 4:20 p.m.:
P2: When Disability and Discipline Collide
Things get tricky when performance may or may not be impacted by a perceived or actual disability. Most employers are, unfortunately, familiar with employee cases where questions of disability arise toward the end of a disciplinary process. Where to start? Legal issues surrounding both discipline and disability abound, it is important to understand how the two can be intertwined legally. This training will help you navigate these issues and assist you to getting to the same goal of both the Disability Interactive Process and Progressive Discipline – for an employee’s performance standards to be met.
Learn how to manage these especially tough cases in compliance with the ADA and about specific solutions on how to proceed down the Disability Interactive Process Hallway™!

California Self Insurers Association Annual Meeting & Educational Conference
2020-04-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Disneyland Resort Anaheim, 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA, 92802, United States
Don’t Get Stuck in the ADA/FEHA/WC Triangle:
Injured workers who meet the ADA’s definition of an “individual with a disability” enter the disability interactive process, regardless of whether they satisfy criteria for receiving benefits under workers’ compensation or other disability laws. This intersection of processes, rules and law can be frustratingly slow for all parties involved. Rachel Shaw will show you how to get “unstuck” when common roadblocks pop up – and, shed light on opportunities to reduce claim costs and create timeline efficiencies. The session will also explore how you can use Light Duty Agreements, create TTD questionnaires to evaluate if continued leave is reasonable, the value of Essential Function Position Analyses and how to make sure you get what you need from QME and AME providers.

Shaw HR Consulting Hosted ADA Disability Compliance Training
2020-03-31 08:00 - 2020-04-01 17:00 | Radisson Hotel Oakland, 8400 Edes Ave, Oakland, CA, 94621, United States
Session Cancelled due to Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

CalGovHR Conference & Expo
2020-03-12 00:00 - 23:59 | DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sonoma Wine Country, 1 Doubletree Drive, Rohnert Park, CA, 94928, United States
Presentation Topic: “The Stressed Out Worker – Psychological Disability Issues and Compliance”

HR West Conference
2020-03-10 10:35 - 12:05 | Oakland Convention Center, 550 10th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
FMLA or the Friday, Monday Leave Act: Managing Leave Misuse and Abuse
Leave use is one of the most frustrating issues for employers to manage. From FMLA to persons who are legitimately too disabled to work full-time, it feels nearly hopeless to combat the rising tide of leave use. In this session Rachel will skillfully walk you through what you can do to reduce leave use across your organization. Don’t miss one of Rachel’s most popular sessions where she shares leave management strategies that really work!

NPELRA Online Webinar
2020-03-04 11:00 - 12:00
Proven Strategies to Address Excessive Use, Abuse and Misuse of Leave:
Leave use is one of the most frustrating issues for employers to manage. From FMLA (Friday, Monday Leave Act) to persons who are legitimately too disabled to work full-time, it nearly feels hopeless to combat the rising tide of leave use. In this session Rachel will skillfully, and humorously, walk you through what you can do reduce leave use across your organization. She will bring forward strategies that work, provide you with tools you can throw on your stationary and start using tomorrow, and give the hopeless, hope… (or at the least you will have the hope of receiving a coffee gift card.)
Don’t miss one of Rachel’s most popular sessions where she shares leave management strategies that really work.

Personnel Testing Counsel of Southern California
2019-11-15 09:00 - 09:50 | Almansor Court, 700 S Almansor Street, Alhambra, CA, 91801, United States
Best Practices for Providing Accommodations During the Hiring Process
Applicants have rights to reasonable accommodations. Similar, but not the same as reasonable accommodation discussions with employees, it’s important to understand how to conduct the disability interactive process for applicants or candidates. Learn what compliance means for applicants in accordance with ADA/FEHA, how to make sure you obtain clear medical data to base accommodation decisions, and how to hold an interactive process meeting with an applicant to determine if reasonable accommodations can be implemented. Rachel is not a lawyer, but an HR practitioner providing attendees with tested and real world processes and protocols your organization can implement tomorrow.

Central California Chapter IPMA-HR Training
2019-10-29 08:00 - 16:00 | Ceres Community Center, 2701 Fourth Street, Ceres, CA, 95307, United States

Illinois PELRA
2019-10-27 10:50 - 2019-10-28 16:00 | Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Bloomington/Normal Illinois, 201 Broadway, Normal, IL, 61761, United States
Pre-Conference – Sunday, October 27, 2019
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
ADA/ADAAA Compliance – Everything You Need To Do This is Hard Stuff Right!

Monday, October 28, 2019
10:50 am – 12:05 pm
Leave Management

ACHRO EEO
2019-10-23 | Hyatt Regency Garden Grove, 11999 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove, CA, 92840, United States
October 23 – 2:15-3:30 – Psychological Disabilities: Accommodations related to stress are on the rise
October 23 – 3:45-5:00 – Disability vs. Discipline

PIHRA Long Beach Luncheon
2019-10-17 | The Grand Event Center, 4101 E Willow St., Long Beach, CA, 90815, United States
Session Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session Title: ROI Opportunities in Managing the Disabled Workforce
Session Overview:
Demonstrating the Fiscal Impact of HR
HR touches every part of your organization, and yet, if being done right – we are invisible. As a non-revenue generating part of an organization, HR is oftentimes misunderstood, under-resourced and at times wholly ignored. Enter: an opportunity to demonstrate the fiscal importance of HR and specifically, a comprehensive disability compliance program.
As practitioners, we’ve witnessed a steady rise in leave usage, workers’ compensation injuries, requests for accommodations and mental health matters. As the requests increase, and the complexities skyrocket, many organizations maintain the same staffing levels for their HR teams. Why? For some, there lacks organizational awareness of the work that has to be done to comply with laws. For others, there is a deficit in understanding what is possible when these issues are expertly managed with sufficient staff. We aim to help with both, but believe the latter will resonate well with organizational leadership.
When an organization understands at the highest levels the tangible ROI when it tackles disability and leave matters efficiently and effectively they are bound to be impressed. Compliance doesn’t always get executives excited about supporting our important work, but saving money and improving worker productivity – that is often a different story. Let PHIRA help you fight for the resources and support you need to manage ADA, FEHA, FMLA, CFRA, and Workers’ Compensation complexities.
Bring Your Leadership
At this session we are asking you bring with you a member or two from your leadership group, or a key operational supervisor or manager that needs to understand why this work is so important and why managing it makes business sense. Help us help you build organization support so you can get the permissions and/or financial resources needed to have a chance at doing this work the way your organization needs it done.
To take on this challenging and inspirational session, PHIRA Long Beach is bringing in Rachel Shaw, a nationally-known best-selling author and speaker in the area of disability compliance. During this lunch session she will not only discuss the real challenges and costs that employers face when we don’t have a comprehensive disability management program and provide, but will share solutions that will get results any manager or CEO can get behind. This is a session that begs for an audience that is larger than just your HR Talent. Get your leaders – by title or influence – to the lunch table, and let Rachel support your disability compliance to get to the next level!

SHRM Northern California Symposium
2019-10-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Westin Hotel SFO, 1 Old Bayshore Hwy, Millbrae, CA, 94030, United States

PELRAC
2019-09-27 | DoubleTree by Hilton Palm Springs, 67967 Vista Chino, Cathedral City, CA, 92234, United States
Session Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session Title: Mental Health and a Stressed-Out Workplace:Managing Invisible Disabilities with Visible Impacts
Session Description: The National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that one in five adults – or approximately 43.8 million Americans – experience mental illness in any given year. Employers are seeing more and more accommodation requests with workers’ compensation claims related to workload and stress on the rise. This means lost productivity, and less innovation in our organizations. Today, too much leave goes unmanaged, tolerated and simply not budgeted for. This session invites employers to think differently. From investing in EAP services and staffing correctly to managing leave appropriately, learn how to not only take a new approach, but get real tools to put programs in place that work. Participants will leave the presentation with an understanding of FEHA/ADA law as it relates to mental and psychological disability compliance. Importantly, they will walk away with a practical and implementable process – the Disability Interactive Process Hallway® that will help you identify the best way to support individual employees.
