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AUGUST 2013

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Annual TSHRM/RWHRMA Joint Meeting! Top Motivational Strategies Impacting Employee Engagement & Performance!

Thursday, August 22, 2013 Speaker: Dr. Kevin Snyder

Registration begins at 11am.

Lunch buffet begins at 11:30am.

Speaker begins at Noon.

Location: Double Tree Raleigh-Durham Airport at RTP

4810 Page Creek Lane Durham, NC 27703

In this interactive program tailored for supervisors, managers and human resource professionals, we will discuss emerging talent-management

trends, best practice strategies and tangible ‘take-a-way’ exercises that empower employees and foster dynamic workforce cultures. This motivational presentation will focus on three extraordinary empowerment secrets proven to ignite and impact employee motivation, organizational

operations, and continual improvement. If you have ever wondered how and why some people and businesses achieve amazing success and quickly adapt to transformative change, then this is the perfect program to learn techniques and methods that you can apply to maximize your effectiveness and workforce engagement. You will leave this program feeling energized, empowered and knowledgeable about utilizing new creative solutions to

address any workforce challenge.

REGISTER

In This Edition

President’s Corner

Monthly Meeting

Volunteer of the Month

Workforce Readiness

Members in Transition

Strategic HR Summit

Trip to Italy

Enhanced Member

Benefit

Government Affairs

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Cassie Wilson is the current Membership Administrator and she's done an amazing job. She is diligent, reliable, and best of all has a knack for accuracy! It's critical that our database is kept clean, up to date, and effective in order to best serve our membership and she's taken the lead on making sure that all details are attended to. She has been fabulous at representing our chapter, as well. She is so warm and personable, we're fortunate to have such a great individual serving as the front line of our

member services function.

WORKFORCE READINESS COMMITTEE MEETING Learning Opportunity IT Technical Writing Careers

Date/Time: August 19th at 6 PM Location: Café Carolina (137 Weston Parkway/ Cary, NC 27513) Guest Speaker: Sheila Loring

Speaker Sheila Loring will share trends in Technical Writing careers. Sheila Loring is Manager of Technical Documentation at SAS Institute for the JMP division. Insatiable curiosity, an appreciation for the written word, and the desire to help others attracted Sheila to technical writing. As president of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), Carolina chapter, she wishes to provide educational and networking opportunities for technical writers, with the ultimate goal of uniting writers with satisfying careers.

RWHRMA MIT meeting: “Dealing with Transition” Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Capital Associated Industries (www.capital.org for directions)

Christie Fell, manager of search and consulting at Elinvar, will speak on Dealing with Transition in our August MIT meeting. Christie has been described by her supervisor as

“the best recruiter I’ve ever seen,” and is very familiar with the pressures that unemployment and job change can cause candidates. Prior to joining Elinvar, Christie

worked in banking and finance, after graduating with honors from NCSU in business/human resources.

Please register via the Upcoming Events calendar at www.rwhrma.org

AUGUST VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH

CASSIE WILSON

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As human resource professionals, we are fortunate to have a variety of opportunities to connect and learn

through association chapter meetings and events; online learning sessions and webinars; social networking

sites and forums; and formal conferences. The reality is that it sometimes can be challenging to select which

resources and events will best allow for strategic learning that will benefit your current role and further your

professional development. RWHRMA developed a unique event to target senior level HR professionals,

creating sessions geared toward SPHR and GPHR strategic credit and networking opportunities for leaders

with over ten years of experience.

RWHRMA is pleased to share that the second annual Strategic HR Summit will be held on February 27 & 28 in

Downtown Raleigh. Keynote speakers will include Sandy Costa, sharing expertise from over 40 years in

executive and senior operating management positions in “The Attributes of Great Leaders” and Ben Casnocha,

award winning entrepreneur and author, leading “Reinventing the Employer-Employee Contract in an

Entrepreneurial Age.”

Amy Hoover, HR/Business Support Services Manager for Arysta LifeScience and leader of the planning efforts

for the Strategic HR Summit, exuded, “We are so excited to be hosting the Strategic HR Summit again in 2014.

This day and a half executive and senior level event is the first of its kind for NC. We offer an intimate setting of

approximately 100-150 HR leaders from large and small companies for thought provoking mega sessions

designed to challenge leaders to up their game in leading and growing their business. We are planning for

another outstanding line-up of strategic and global focused topics and spotlight key partnerships with a select

group of industry leading providers such as Ogletree Deakins, and Stanley Benefits.”

To learn more about the 2014 event, including the agenda, lodging, strategic partners and registration, please

visit www.rwhrma.org and search under events. The Planning Committee may also be reached

at SHRSummit@gmail.com.

RWHRMA Trip to Italy

Reminder: Deposits are due September 15th

For more information about this program visit

the event page.

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Enhanced Member Benefit…COMING SOON!

RWHRMA’s first online CAREER CENTER

RWHRMA is excited to announce the pending arrival of our new

online Career Center, catering specifically to Job Seekers and

Employers in the Human Resource community. The online Career

Center will be an enhancement far and above our current job

posting webpage, allowing job seekers and employers enhanced

capabilities for finding the right job and right talent!

Members in Transition and those interested in their next opportunity:

Nothing is more frustrating that scrolling through job after job that just does not fit your needs. Our

new online Career Center will host only the most relevant jobs from the leading employers in our

industry and included technology that will allow you to be quickly notified when a job meeting your

needs is posted. No longer will you need to proactively check our site to see what’s available….we’ll

come to you with the job that fits your needs!! Be on the lookout for this exciting new benefit so you

can be sure and get registered!

Employers

Hiring the wrong person costs not only time and money but can hurt company morale and

productivity. Our Trusted Talent Advisors available with our new online Career Center can share Best

Practices, as well as other resources to assist you in writing an aligned job description focusing on

Scope, Scale, Sophistication and Staff. You will be able to post your HR jobs for our focused HR

audience with instant alert to targeted prospective candidates! Stay tuned for more information

about how you can quickly fill your HR roles using our online Career Center.

We are excited to be working with the Association Career Network to offer and manage our online

Career Center. Our members and all registered job seekers will receive bimonthly emails with job

postings from employers looking to find their next great team member. As we truly want this to be an

enhanced member benefit and not a bother you can opt out from these emails at any time.

Stay tuned for more information and the link to access our new

Online Career Center in Sept/Oct. In the meantime if you have any

burning questions or concerns, please contact Amy Hoover

at amy.hoover@arysta.com.

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WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS FOR

SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER

IDENTITY INTRODUCED IN UNITED

STATES SENATE

On Wednesday, July 10, the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions passed

a bill containing the first federal workplace protections for sexual orientation and gender identity since 2002.

The Employer Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been sent to the Senate floor for further consideration and

it is expected to be considered by the full Senate this fall. If enacted, relevant considerations include the

following:

■ ENDA would apply to all employers, employer agencies and labor unions with 15 or more employees. It

would not apply to religious organizations, the military, unpaid volunteers, or various protected federal

employer classes.

■ ENDA would make it illegal for employers to refuse to hire, fire, or discriminate against an individual with

regard to his or her compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of such

individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

■ ENDA extends federal employment discrimination protections which are currently provided on the basis of

race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability to sexual orientation and gender identity. Thus, it

contains no requirement to affirmatively hire or retain a specific percentage of LGBT employees. It also

contains no requirement that employers grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the

basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

■ ENDA does not permit disparate impact claims but only disparate treatment claims on the basis of sexual

orientation or gender identity.

■ While the bill contains protections for transgendered employees, it nevertheless preserves employers’ rights

to enforce a workplace dress code for the employee’s chosen identity and during any transitional period

that may take place. The bill does not require employers to create new facilities for transgendered

employees.

If ENDA is passed, the federal government will join the twenty-one states and the District of Columbia which

have enacted laws prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Sixteen of these

states’ laws include provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity as well.

Gender identity is defined as an individual’s self-conception as being male or female. If a person’s self-

conception differs from their actual biological sex, they are said to be transgendered. Sexual orientation is an

enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions. It also refers to an individual’s sense of

personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a

community of others who share them. Gender identity and sexual orientation are therefore similar in the fact

that both reflect an individual’s self-conception. They differ in the fact that sexual orientation also includes a

behavioral component and is therefore a more observable trait.

If you have questions or concerns about this pending legislation or other legal issues, please feel free to contact

Governmental Affairs Director Connie Carrigan at ccarrigan@smithdebnamlaw.com.

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