From Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between: Legal, Tax, and Health Care Issues Webcast

Oct 19
8:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Online

6-Other; 2-Tax
CPE Credits

Consider the legal issues in hiring, evaluating, and firing employees. Discuss federal laws that curtail an employer in taking actions involving employees and applicants. Understand the requirements that fringe benefits and compensation programs place on employers.
Highlights

Hiring and firing: What questions can and cannot be asked in an interview; documenting employee performance; establishing an annual review system; wrongful termination
Employment contracts: legal and planning issues in structuring employment contracts; noncompete agreements
Telecommuting and other special situations
Liability issues: discrimination, sexual harassment, FLSA issues, minimum wage, and overtime
Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and what is new in health care
Medical plans: part-time vs. full-time status

Registration

PICPA Member: $275
Nonmember: $375

More Information

Course No. 724602 Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Notes

Value Pass Plus cannot be used on this webcast

Log-in information and course materials will be available in My Account the day before the webcast

Speaker(s)

Robert Herman

Robert P. Herman, CPA, CITP, CGMA

Robert P. Herman is a Certified Public Accountant (NJ and NY) holding the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) and Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designations. In addition, he holds a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) designation.

Prior to becoming an instructor for continuing professional education seminars, he was a partner in a large CPA firm where he practiced tax and serviced the firm’s SMB market. Robert then became vice president for a large Sage Software reseller, where he supervised six consultants and led large client ERP installations and analysis. He most recently worked as the Director of Accounting for one of the largest Sage Software resellers. There his responsibilities included payroll preparation and oversight for over 230 employees in 25 states and Canada. He was also responsible for compliance of all tax filing (payroll and sales tax) in those states and in assisting the CFO in monthly financial preparation and analysis. Due to his technical knowledge he was also responsible for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining the company’s internal financial and payroll based software systems.

Robert’s professional affiliations include: membership in the AICPA, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants; past President, Passaic County Chapter of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants; past chairperson of the Information Technology Committee of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants; and past member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants. Robert served in the US Army as an officer in the MPs and spent time in many countries, including Vietnam.

2/2018