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A publication of the Evansville-Area Human Resource Association, Inc. April 2010
• EHRA Spring Seminar • Volunteer Opportunities • Certification Study Courses • Welcome New Members • New Job Opening • HR Professional of the Year! • Walk and Roll Week • Much, much more
To view the event brochure, click here. Don’t miss out, this month there will be a free gift to every attendee.
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The following rates will apply for this meeting.
Full Day Half Day
MEMBER $125 $75
STUDENT $15 $15
GUESTS $150 $100
***Reservations accepted through 12:00 noon on Friday, April 9th online at www.ehranet.org by clicking “monthly program” or by con-tacting Pat Kerstiens at (812) 867-4340 or [email protected].
If you choose to register online, please enter your phone number using format with area code in parentheses, e.g., (812). Please notify us of any accommo-
dation. Registered attendees who do not show will be in-voiced.
About our Presentation Registration 7:30 a.m. • Announcements 8:00 a.m.. • Presentation begins 8:15 a.m.
2010 SPRING SEMINAR SPONSOR SEE OUR ADVERTISEMENT ON THE BACK PAGE OF THIS PUBLICATIONGGGGGG
This month’s sponsor is:
10 Chestnut St., Evansville, IN 47713 :800-542-2448 : 812.424-5234
This month’s meeting will be held at: EVSC Southern Indiana Technical Center 1901 Lynch Rd Evansville, IN 47711-2842 (812) 435-8438
Recent Developments in Employment Law by Brian L. McDermott, JD and Steven F. Pockrass, JD Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. Program will cover recent activity in the areas of union organizing and legislative activity, EEOC and other administrative agency charges and lawsuits, FMLA, GINA, sexual orientation and gender iden-tity discrimination and wage-hour lawsuits
Blogs, Social Networking and Virtual Worlds—A Brave New Workplace Indeed by Brian L. McDermott, JD and Steven F. Pockrass, JD Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. What’s the proper balance between an employee’s right to privacy outside the workplace and the employer’s obligation to protect it’s reputation and proprietary information?
Brian McDermott, JD Read Brian’s biography
Steven Pockrass, JD Read Steven’s Biography
Business Leadership Network—The Business to Business Approach to Hiring People with Disabilities
Presented by Steve Savage and Daniel Grundmann Learn how Business Leadership Networks (BLNs) have become a powerful tool to assist businesses in attract-ing great workers. Discussion will include why SHRM members get involved, what BLN’s do, using local, state and national resources to improve hiring and retention and what outcomes are local BLN’s achieving.
Steve Savage Read Steve’s biography
Daniel Grundmann Read Daniel’s Biography
Authentic Leadership Presented by Jane Sanders Interactive Session: Learn ways to access and use your natural confidence for effective leadership. Learn how to develop con-fidence and communication skills, how to become more authentic and self-aware, how to self-promote yourself for career advancement and learn how people get off-track and lose touch with their natural talents, authenticity and confidence.
Jane Sanders Read Jane’s biography
PRESIDENT Cris Stichler, PHR [email protected]
PRESIDENT ELECT Michelle Choate, GPHR [email protected]
TREASURER Ingrid Lindy, PHR [email protected]
SECRETARY Pat Kerstiens, PHR [email protected]
DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Orvietta Shannon, PHR [email protected]
DIRECTOR OF COMPENSATION SURVEY Vickie Warren, SPHR [email protected]
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS CHAIRPERSON Jacob Fulcher, JD [email protected]
COLLEGE RELATIONS CHAIRPERSON Dr. Joy Peluchette [email protected]
COMMUNICATIONS CHAIRPERSON Nick Lindy [email protected]
FINANCE CHAIRPERSON John Halverson [email protected]
DIVERSITY CHAIRPERSON Marilyn Sadler, JD, PHR [email protected]
WORKFORCE READINESS CHAIRPERSON Mallory Howard, PHR [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP CHAIRPERSON Tara Ricketts, PHR [email protected]
PAST PRESIDENT Andrew Ellerbrook, PHR [email protected]
SHRM Liaison and Certification Chairperson Mary Thompson, PHR [email protected]
WEB CHAIRPERSON Michelle Davis, PHR [email protected]
MEET THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Join EHRA, for the 2010 Spring Seminar which features legal updates, effective leadership skills, and other information that will provide insights into hot Human Resources related topics and trends. The sessions offer top national and state speakers. Brian L. McDermott JD, with Ogletree Deakins will be the opening speaker for the seminar. Mr. McDermott was named the Best Lawyers of America from 2005-10, selected as an Indi-ana Super Lawyer from 2005-10, and identified as a leading labor and employment lawyer in Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers in 2004-07, 2009. For over 17 years, Mr. McDermott has dedicated himself to representing and providing advice to private and public employers on a variety of labor and employment issues, including the FMLA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, ERISA, FLSA, NLRA, covenant not to compete/trade secret matters, wage claims, and wrongful discharge. Steven Pockrass, JD with Ogletree Deakins counsels and defends management on a wide range of labor, employment and personnel matters. Mr. Pockrass is AV rated by Martin-dale-Hubbell, the highest rating an attorney can receive. A frequent speaker and writer, Mr. Pockrass is the appendix editor of the FMLA treatise published by BNA Books. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law’s Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee and has been a contrib-uting author of several annual Midwinter Meeting Reports of the FMLA Subcommittee. Jane Sanders is a consultant, coach and speaker who helps companies create inclusive GenderSmart cultures for both men and women. Jane has 17 years of corporate experience in sales and marketing and over 15 years as president of her own successful company. Her academic background is in business, communication, and psychology, including an MBA from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Jane is author of GenderSmart®: Solving The Communication Puzzle Between Men and Women. Steve Savage is a teacher, trainer, consultant and co-owner of Sandy/Savage and Associ-ates. For more than 25 years he has worked with people with disabilities, their families, schools, businesses and agencies. Steve has taught at all levels of education, from pre-school to university classes. His areas of interest are employment, self employment, per-son centered planning, school to work transition, community inclusion, organizational de-velopment and systems change. Current work includes projects in his home state of Indi-ana and across the country consulting and coordinating projects to develop a statewide Business Leadership Network, improve transition outcomes for students, and implement organizational change. Daniel Grundmann, SPHR is the City of Bloomington’s Director of Employee Services. He currently serves as lead business representative on the DiversityWorks Business Leader Network, is a member of the Indiana University SPEA Service Corps Fellow Advisory Com-mittee, the Public Law 221 Jackson Creek Middle School Improvement Committee. Dan will share his experiences with DiversityWorks Business leader Network. This should be a very informative seminar, and application has been made to HRCI for 5.5 credit hours(2 strategic credit and 3.5 general). Numerous vendors are scheduled to be on hand and great gifts will be available (much be present at time of drawing to win). For more information on our seminar, please visit the brochure by clicking here.
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featuring ways to get involved with our
community, have fun, and help pro-mote the Evansville-Area Human Re-
sources Association.
The University of Southern Indiana, University of Evansville and Oakland City University are seeking volunteers for a job shadow program. The goal is to get HR students the ability to see what happens first-hand in our area businesses. If you would be interested in being a part of a program like this, please email Joy Peluchette at ([email protected]) or phone (464-1803).
If you are a newly certified HR professional, PHR, SPHR, or GPHR, your Evansville-Area Human Resource Association wants to recognize you for your accomplishment at our May 2010 EHRA meeting. The only method for EHRA to locate this is information is from you. Please contact Mary Thomp-son, Certification Chairperson, with your personal information at (812)385-1122 extension 5230 or [email protected].
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DIVERSITY CORNER Coming in May 2010 to Chapter Connection
In May of 2010, the EHRA will begin our new feature in the newsletter on Diversity in the Workplace. This section will cover everything from new laws to a Diversity question of the month submitted by a mem-ber of EHRA. If you have a question on di-versity, please submit to Marilyn Sadler, JD/ PHR, at [email protected].
Reference Services, Inc. 101 Plaza East Blvd., Suite 300
Evansville, IN 47715 www.referenceservices.com or (800) 881-0754
BREAKFAST SPONSOR
Your EHRA 2010 Certification Chairperson, Mary Thompson is seeking HR folks who wish to become involved with a study group in preparation for sitting for their PHR/SPHR/GPHR testing in 2010. The goal is to set up the study groups for HR folks who want to start meeting soon. If you are interested, please contact Mary Thompson, Certification Chairperson, with your personal information at (812)385-1122 extension 5230 or [email protected].
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JOB LINK
Know someone who needs a job in the field of HR? If so, visit our Job Link at www.ehranet.org to see new openings in the Evansville-area.
TEMPORARY SERVICE
Action Temporaries can help you with every aspect of your job search including recruiting, pre-employment testing, employment verifi-cation and payroll services. We handle many job place-ments including industrial, office/administration, jani-
torial and technical to name a few.
We have five area locations to serve you including Evansville, Vincennes, Jasper, New Castle and Washing-ton, Indiana. Please give us a call or visit our website for more information on how we can help:
1-800-377-8430 http://www.actiontemporaries.com/
LUNCH SPONSOR
2010 Regional Compensation & Benefits Report
The Evansville-Area Human Resource Association, Inc. would like to
recognize the following individuals and organizations for their in-
volvement in the production of the 2010 Regional Compensation &
Benefits Report. A project of this size could not be accomplished
without your collective efforts.
Compensation Survey Committee: Sandy Bitter (St. Mary’s Medical
Center), Gene Weisheit, SPHR (Sterling Boiler), Cheri Conyers
(Infinity Molding and Assembly, Inc.), Cynthia Griffith, PHR
(Traylor Bros.), Dan Hayden, PHR & CCP (Vectren Corporation),
Nick Lindy (Shoe Carnival), Michelle Davis, PHR (Shoe Carnival,
Inc.), Lorraine Wurtz (SIRS) and Vickie Warren, SPHR (Evansville
ARC, Inc.)
Special Acknowledgements: Laurel Meny (Chamber of Commerce of
Southwest Indiana) and Joe Wingo (University of Southern Indiana)
Another thank you to
those who participated
in the 2010 Regional
Compensation &
Benefits Survey. Your
support resulted in a
participation rate of
over 88 organizations!
Results will be avail-
able in May and dis-
tributed via email.
featuring ways to get involved with
our community, have fun, and help promote the Evansville-Area Human
Resources Association.
“ WorkOne is looking for presenter(s) to discuss how to write
hiring policies. The presentation would be on the following
dates: July 1st in Evansville, July 8th in Vincennes, and July
22nd in Jasper. If you would be interested in presenting or
would like more information please contact Mallory Howard
at [email protected]. “
It’s time to get moving, Evansville! Walk & Roll Week encour-ages people to take a hike – literally! Or a bike ride! Walk to school. Bike to work. Stroll or roll the tri-state greenways and nature trails. The week of May 17-23 is Walk & Roll Week with events, educational seminars and fun ideas for families and in-dividuals to be part of a get-healthier movement. We invite you to park your car for a day and walk, bike or take a bus to join us! Log onto www.walkandrollweek.com for information on the planned rides and walks, scheduled speakers and how we can work together to expand our Evansville-area Trails!
Ask an attorney feature! Beginning next month in Chapter Connection we will be featuring an ask the attorney section focusing on employment law questions. Questions will be chosen at random for feature in the newsletter. If you have a question you would like answered, please email Jake Fulcher, JD: [email protected]
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WorkOne is looking for presenter(s) to discuss how to write hiring policies. The presentation would be on the following dates: July 1st in Evansville, July 8th in Vincennes, and July 22nd in Jasper. If you would be interested in presenting or would like more infor-mation please contact Mallory Howard at [email protected].
EHRA adds 15 members in February and March The Evansville-Area Human Resources Association is happy to recognize our newest members. Jamie Fairchild is one of the 15 new and returning members to EHRA. Jamie currently works in the Human Resources Department at Bernardin, Lochmueller & Associates. Jamie joined EHRA to meet other HR professionals and keep up with cur-rent HR issues. Her favorite aspect of her job is working with and helping people. Other new and returning mem-bers include Ericka Beddow (Gibco), Amy Clark (Eye Mart), Jason Fertig (University of Southern Indiana), Ashley Gelep (Kelly Services), Linda Gottfried (Kelly Services), Bonnie Grafton (Green Tree Plastics), Steve Greulich (Professional Transportation, Inc.), Kara Hemenway (Shoe Carnival), Lynda Hostettler (Solarbron), Victoria Reed (University of Southern Indiana), Randall Ripplemeier (Professional Transportation, Inc.), Carrie Roelle (Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn, LLP), Amy Tenhumberg (ProRehab) and Amanda Webb (Peabody Energy).
Congratulations Mike Murphy, the 2009 EHRA Professional of the Year
Mike Murphy, Compensation and Benefits Director at Shoe Carnival, was chosen as the 15th local HR professional to become EHRA’s Pro-fessional of the Year. Mike was surprised with an awards ceremony at the Shoe Carnival corporate office on March 8, 2010 and formally rec-ognized at the March 24, 2010 general meeting at USI. This annual award presented by EHRA honors those that represent “the best” in the HR Management profession. Mike was chosen for his work not only in the local community where he currently assists with the Castle Band, but also on the national stage where Mike currently serves as a member of the Special Expertise Panel on the Total Rewards / Com-pensation and Benefits for SHRM. This was Mike’s second volunteer
of the year award in the past twelve months; the first rec-ognized him as the 2009 Indiana State Conference Volun-teer of the Year. Please join us in con-gratulating Mike for winning this great award!
2008 Janet Heldt, SPHR 2001 Frank Kanowsky, SPHR
2007 Angie Brawdy, SPHR 2000 Nancy Epperson
2006 Allen Mounts 1999 Gene Weisheit, SPHR
2005 Deb Fleck, SPHR 1998 Peggy Forbes, PHR
2004 Brenda Bosecker, PHR 1997 Nancy Byrd, SPHR
2003 Robyn Taylor, PHR 1996 Darlene Fisher, SPHR
2002 Mary Reese 1995 Pam Goedde, SPHR
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