Chapter Meeting

The legal landscape continues to keep employers on their toes! While certain Oregon Equal Pay Act exceptions fade into memory, we have paid family leave coming quickly—along with major changes in harassment claim settlements and more.

Speaker: Kurt Barker, Partner at Best Best & Krieger

HR must do something to reverse the empathy deficit in the workplace. By promoting empathy and belonging, you strengthen your organization.  Empathy is a critical business skill that helps build and sustain workplace relationships, foster diversity and inclusion, encourage cooperation and collaboration and facilitate conflict management.

Presentation: Essentials for an Inclusive Workplace

Developing an inclusive workforce means creating an environment where each employee feels
recognized, appreciated, valued, and has their talents utilized. This requires an organization to examine its polices, practices and procedures to uncover and discover the things that create disparities and inequity in the workplace.

Speaker: Daryl Dixon, Director of Equity and Inclusion, Cascade Employers Association.

Workplace Culture – It’s Importance Today

Culture is as important as your business strategy because it either strengthens or undermines your objectives. A positive culture is significant, especially because:

Welcome to our first 2022 legal update installment! (We’ll have a comprehensive legal update in the Fall.)  With new laws from the Oregon legislature, shifting safety rules, changes to arbitration enforcement and more, it’s time to catch up on the ever-shifting landscape of employment law.

The Origin and Future of our Tight Labor Market

The tight labor market we are experiencing has been the talk of the town for months. Most of these conversations lead to assumptions about “overly generous unemployment insurance,” “lazy workers,” or “greedy workers.” The labor market is in fact very tight, among the tightest markets on record, however the reasons why are far more complex than many of these assumptions.

Building Teams That Care: How to Enliven Your Workforce to Kick-Ass Results (even though we are all tired!)

Covid-19 has us fatigued and burned out with dynamic changes to practices and protocols. The awesome people we need to get results are hard to find and to retain as people rethink everything about their lives. How can you move your organization's cultural health forward? By investing in the fabric of healthy, cohesive, trusting teams. Team care builds healthy communities at work, and there has never been a more important time to do just that.

"Where Did They Go? Finding Staff in Central Oregon"

This is expected to be an informative, timely presentation on the current labor market impacting our businesses.

"HR's New Calling: New Rules for the New Workplace"

The world has changed, business has shifted, and employees are demanding more – and getting it! This “shift” seems to have happened overnight, but it has been years in the making. Now, leaders are desperately trying to figure out answers and looking to HR for help. Are you prepared to step in to deliver the best solutions that will drive your organization forward?

Reserve your spot for lunch as we gather to celebrate 2021, network with peers, announce the Central Oregon SHRM Board for 2022 and the HR Professional of the Year recipient.

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