HR Compliance U. features courses on key EEO issues that can be taken by your employees via the Internet.

For starters -- cost, consistency, convenience, and accessibility.  No one has to travel to a class.  You don't have to worry about employees being sick or being on vacation for scheduled class dates.  All employees receive the same information.  And -- it's accessible from their desktop over the Internet.

Quality.  Course materials are developed and continuously updated by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., one of the premier employment law firms in the United States.  Courses are changed quickly (at no extra cost you) as court rulings or new EEO laws are made.  Also, our courses feature streaming multimedia and cutting-edge interactivity; both are critical to insure learning.

It´s cost efficient.  Time is money.  Our courses typically last 30 minutes to 1 hour ... and they can be taken right from the employee´s desktop, which means you don´t have to send your employees out of the office to be trained.

Anytime, anywhere.  Courses can be taken when the employee has free time and, because our courses are on the Internet, employees can even choose to take a course from home.  Compare this to traditional methods of training employees, especially when employees are located throughout the United States and the world!  HR Compliance U. solves the problem reaching a geographically diverse audience.

Automatic Tracking.  Our tracking system follows an employee's progress through a course and instantly creates a report to prove he or she has successfully completed it within the predetermined time period.  It´s something EEO Managers have been asking for ... and HR Compliance U. delivers.

Flexibility.  HR Compliance U. offers you several key choices:

• Take our current courses over the Internet via the HR Compliance U. website
• Personalize our courses by adding a message from a top executive of your company and/or adding your EEO policies.
• Let us know what courses you are interested in; Epstein Becker & Green P. C. and Mindwise are constantly reviewing which courses will be added to the curriculum

The Supreme Court rulings in June 1998 dramatically impact employers -- public and private, large and small.  The decisions potentially increase corporate liability in sexual harassment cases.  These rulings also reaffirm that employers must make employees aware of sexual harassment issues and train them on sexual harassment avoidance to insure compliance with company policy and EEO laws.  Without proper employee training, employers will face more EEO lawsuits than ever before.

The best way to prevent EEO complaints and limit liability is to implement a strong program of compliance training.  Employers that can show they effectively communicated their EEO policy -- and prove that their employees understand that policy -- are better protected according to the Supreme Court. This makes ongoing training on sexual harassment awareness for your employees essential to preventing lawsuits and critical to building a strong defense.

Consider these facts:

• sexual harassment lawsuit can cost a company millions in defense costs and settlements;
• since 1990, sexual harassment lawsuits have increased nearly 300 percent
• sexual harassment claims can destroy careers and affect a company's reputation and image among clients, customers, shareholders, financiers, and employees.

KoTrain: Our online training engine, KoTrain, is the most powerful that currently exists.  It drives a comprehensive system for managing online courses.  More than $3.1 million of development costs has been spent to bring KoTrain to this industry-leading stage, and it is presently used by many Fortune 100 companies.  It has the unique ability to log all student activity, automatically provide you with reports, and build and track courses.

Content: HR Compliance University courses are developed with two goals: to effectively train your employees on key EEO issues; and to focus the content of the courses on EEO issues that are of special concern to the courts.  Our content, developed and updated by the national employment law firm Epstein Becker and Green, P.C. meets these objectives.

Highly Interactive: Students get involved and pay attention through interactive questions and quizzes that are included throughout the program.  Multimedia graphics including narration and audio/slide shows are featured.  Our courses, however, feature a straightforward design that makes it easy for any person to take it with little direction.  .

Tracking Capabilities: Testing and tracking are an integral part of HR Compliance University. The ability to monitor each employee's use and progress provides you with documentation that your employees took the training.  Mindwise provides up-to-the-minute student reports that offer you a company-wide view as well as individual employee reports -- allowing you to follow up with employees who haven't finished the assignment.  This audit trail can be a positive factor in litigation.

Customization: Mindwise can tailor the EEO material to the needs of your company.  We have the ability to incorporate comments from your compliance officer or chairman and add your policies to the website  The program's flexibility makes it right for you.

Instant Updates: When federal or state laws change, HR Compliance University courses will be updated quickly.

How It Works: Through your company's normal communication channels, all employees are told they will be taking an EEO education program.  They are instructed to connect to HR Compliance University on the Internet and log on through an assigned access code.  The first course-- on sexual harassment awareness, avoidance, and compliance -- takes approximately 35 minutes to complete and consists of an introduction, a series of vignettes of real-life situations, a review of the law, expert analysis, questions, a summary, and a quiz.  We recommend it also include a message from your chairman or compliance officer.

What Do You Need? HR Compliance U courses are taken over the Internet.  Computer recommendations include a Pentium computer, 166 mhz, 4.x Browser (either Netscape or Internet Explorer), audio card, Internet connection, and RealPlayer 5.0, which is a free software that is easy to download and set up.  You may also decide to set up designated computer workstations within your company for just HR Compliance U courses.

HR Compliance University Developers:

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., is a full-service law firm with offices in 10 cities throughout the United States, and affiliations worldwide.  The firm is one of the best known  in the country in two areas of practice -- labor and employment, and health care.   With more than 200 attorneys, the firm's size and diversity allow its attorneys to address the needs of both small entrepreneurial ventures and large multinational corporations. 

Epstein Becker & Green's labor and employment group is one of the largest in the world, representing employers in all manner of employment-related claims.  These include sexual harassment and discrimination actions, claims brought under civil rights and anti-discrimination statutes, and actions under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Mindwise Media, LLC specializes in creating interactive, database-driven online training programs and "universities."  Mindwise brings advanced skills to this specialty, including expertise in website design and navigation for online learning, development of training content, advanced structuring and maintenance of database systems for the Web, website security, online audio and multimedia, online training software engines, e-commerce, and website hosting.

Mindwise launched in July 1997.  It has developed extensive online training websites for both small companies and the Fortune 100.

Contact Us

Contact HR Compliance University at 973-701-6770 or HRCompliance@mindwise.com