Immigration issues have added another challenge to conducting your hiring program legally. Here’s a tool to help supervisors follow the rules.
If the current debate over the hiring of immigrant workers shows anything, it’s how important it is these days to hire legally.
Employment of foreign nationals … on the rise because of labor shortages in critical skills … is subject to multiple forms of visa regulation (see yesterday’s Advisor).
Checking the status of immigrant job applicants is also now more stringent, and employment law on this subject is constantly evolving: The new regulations on checking Social Security numbers to verify that status is one change both you and your supervisors need to be aware of.
All of this has been added to previous complexities. Laws involving national origin are part of a larger mosaic of regulations relating to discrimination in hiring on the basis of age, gender, health condition, and more, with any violation aiming you right at a courtroom. The bottom line: The days of just looking across the desk, shaking hands, and doing your best imitation of Donald Trump’s “You’re HIRED!” are long over.
What’s more, each law has its own nuances: We found some we weren’t previously aware of in BLR’s new program, Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally — a 27-slide PowerPoint with professionally recorded narration that trains supervisors in all phases of legal hiring.
Title VII, ADA, ADEA, USERRA, state law, and more …. Are your supervisors following them all in hiring? Teach them what they need to know with BLR’s Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally. Read more.
Did you know, for example, that when several laws protect an applicant from discrimination, the one “most favorable to the applicant prevails”? Or that while you can (and must) refuse to hire an illegal immigrant, you can’t refuse those here legally, even if they’re not U.S. citizens?
Or that, on another hiring front, employers should seriously consider how much to emphasize education or experience in job ads? Why? Because some protected groups have been denied the levels of education and experience you’d specify, forming a barrier they cannot, as a group, cross. That’s discrimination. (When writing these ads, says Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally, put the emphasis on what work you need done, not what qualifications the applicant needs to meet.)
In fact, Hiring Legally will teach your supervisors all facets of the hiring process, including:
–What laws control hiring (EEO, ADA, PDA, ADEA, IRCA, USERRA, among others)
–How to write nondiscriminatory job descriptions and employment postings
–Questions you can and can’t ask in employment interviews
–Legal guidelines for pre-employment testing
–Lawful reference and background checks
–How and what to document in the hiring process
Sight, Sound, and Self-Direction
Users of Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally also report that it’s effective with supervisors for two other reasons: the audio track and the fact that the learning is self-directed.
The audio, which uses both male and female narrators, fits a learning theory that says that what you experience in multiple modalities (that’s educator-ese for learning through more than one of your senses) tends to be far better remembered than information received through one input, such as reading, alone.
Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally uses both sight and sound to train your supervisors. Train them all for under $150. Click for details.
The fact that this is a program supervisors can do on their own (you don’t even need to be in the room) also increases the learning. That’s because most adult learners prefer to teach themselves, at their own pace, a process called self-direction. Users of self-directed programs are more motivated because they have control over the material.
All these principles of adult learning are explained in-depth in the included Trainer’s Guide. There’s also a trainee handout to reinforce the main points, a quiz to test learning, and two provocative discussion exercises. You can also customize the slides by adding your company’s information. All this adds to the program’s efficacy, without adding to the cost.
If you’d like to experience Audio Click ‘n Train: Hiring Legally for yourself (there’s that self-directed thing again), just click the link below to see some sample slides and hear the audio track that accompanies them.
Whether you and your supervisors are visual or oral learners, we think you’ll like what you see … and hear.