Event Details

Over the past decade, businesses and non-profit organizations have faced increasing demands to comply with a myriad of government regulations in a rapidly changing legal landscape. Today, human resources professionals are responsible for the design, administration, and enforcement of many of the policies that address these regulations while ensuring compliance and managing risk for the organization. This program offers intensive, practice-based training for human resources professionals and their advisors in identifying and evaluating compliance requirements, while also being able to work with stakeholders to effectively implement compliance programs within their organizations.

Designed for

• HR and Compliance Professionals
• Business Owners
• Attorneys and Other Professionals

Current J.D. students are not eligible for this program.

Course of Study

Take four sequential courses online over 12 weeks.

• Human Resources Compliance and Risk Management (three weeks)
• Talent Acquisition and Pre-Employment Compliance (three weeks)
• Compliance during Employment: Development, Administration, and Enforcement of Policies and Procedures (three weeks)
• Compliance Issues in Ending Employment (three weeks)

Learning Objectives

• Understand the purpose, policies, and role of a human resources professional within an organization
• Evaluate a workplace event and create an investigative plan that includes risk mapping
• Design a non-discriminatory business needs assessment with internal company stakeholders
• Communicate the importance of compliance initiatives to internal stakeholders within an organization
• Analyze, assess, and prioritize areas of risk and understand how to effectively manage those areas of risk with stakeholders in the organization
• Understand employment law and government compliance requirements

Continuing Education Credits

The Minnesota CLE board has pre-approved this program for 30 CLE credits: 25 standard credits, 3 Ethics credits, and 2 Elimination of Bias credits.

All courses are pass/fail. Students have many opportunities to interact with faculty and one another in discussions and hands-on exercises. There are no scheduled dates or times when all students must be online concurrently.

Qualified applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or have qualified work experience and register at least one week before the program’s start date.
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