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After a welcome by Dann Adams, TALX president, Susan Ershler will speak about her life journey, including sharing with others her secrets for success, determination, and achieving seemingly impossible goals. Along with her many professional accomplishments, she and her husband were the first couple to climb all seven summits of the world together.

How to comply with fluid Form I-9 and E-Verify requirements, including remote I-9s, receipts, changing agents, photo matching, and more.

Learn how the credit lifecycle impacts both your employees and you, as an employer. How does having reliable, fast and accurate information enable access to credit and benefit your employee's financial situation? Can you as an employer enable your employees to be active, credit-worthy consumers? How does that impact the financial health of our economy and your business? What regulatory policies and legislation (in key markets) are affecting your workforce and how can you help?

It's never too early to prepare to win an unemployment claim. This session will offer insights into things to consider - even prior to hiring an employee. We will present common separation issues and case studies and discuss the trends in 2012.

One of the elements of a successful WOTC tax credit capture program is knowledge of, and compliance with, the best practice requirements of the state workforce agencies. This session with Megan Rogers of the Missouri Department of Economic Development will cover the basics of the WOTC program and offer valuable insights into how you can optimize your company's participation in WOTC through specific guidelines pertaining to form submission, state information request responses, and providing target group backup information.

Get your arms around child support garnishment compliance, eliminating paper, and filtering garnishments that are not for your employees.

This session will discuss cyber attacks, hacktivism, and methods utilized in these attacks, and provide leading practices available to secure data and your organization from the evolving cyber threat environment.

UI Integrity – reducing improper Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments – is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) and state UI agencies. Maintaining Unemployment Program integrity is everyone's responsibility; not only the feds and states, but workers and employers, too. This session will highlight how the USDOL and states are working in collaboration to address the UI improper payment rate. Also, hear about the new and controversial "UI Integrity – Prohibition on Noncharging Due to Employer Fault" law.

Join us for a lively roundtable discussion on the best practices being utilized today by some of the most successful TALX Tax Credit and Incentives clients. This session will offer actionable tips and information regarding the internal management of tax credit programs including how to enhance credit capture, ensure proper applicant screening, increase compliance, motivate hiring managers, track success, and more. Participants will include The Reserves Network, Husqvarna, and Frisch's.

This is a special opportunity to hear from the USCIS, ICE, and OSC, the three divisions of the federal government responsible for Form I-9 and E-Verify. USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for the management of Form I-9 and E-Verify. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also part of DHS and is responsible for the enforcement of immigration laws that include Form I-9. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is part of the Department of Justice and has the responsibility to respond to claims of discriminatory practices related to Form I-9 and E-Verify. After the presentations there will be a question and answer session that will also include a prominent immigration lawyer as well as a TALX I-9 expert. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of the roles of each of the government divisions as well as insights into how to review their own hiring procedures to maintain compliance.

In this session you will hear from an ICE Special Agent as well as a prominent immigration attorney about what your organization should do to be prepared for an ICE Form I-9 audit. The immigration attorney's point of view will not necessarily be the same as what you will hear from ICE. You will also learn about the ICE IMAGE program, its benefits, and the requirements for participation. Participants will have an understanding of what actions they need to take to reduce their risk and be properly prepared.

Whether it's in economic conditions, customer expectations, core technologies, business regulations, or more, change requires agile leaders who can anticipate it, adapt to it and use it to their competitive advantage. Learn how the research-based Agile Model® serves as the basis for leadership agility assessment and development from Dr. Nick Horney from Agility Consulting. Discover your Leadership Agility through an abbreviated version of the Leadership Agility Profile 360™ hosted on the pan assessment platform.

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program has been strained, but continues to play a vital role in recovery efforts. Doug Holmes will present the national UI outlook covering important issues such as the benefit extension programs, the health of UI trust funds, U.S. Department of Labor initiatives regarding the unemployment insurance program, emerging trends, and what employers might expect throughout 2012 and into 2013.

A broad overview of the national economy related specifically to federal and state unemployment taxes, including:

• National economic update – state unemployment trust fund solvency
• Federal and state legislative summary – pending and enacted
• Federal Title XII loans – current state balances and FUTA credit loss
• Unemployment tax concepts to assist in planning and forecasting

After a welcome by Rick Smith, CEO of Equifax, David Bach will discuss financial advice from both an individual perspective as well as how employers can help their employees make wise financial decisions. He has more than 7 million books in print and has been a regular contributor to the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show.

How to plan to migrate from paper to electronic garnishment processing.

Dr. Ann Beatty from Psychological Associates will discuss the value of team evaluations and the Team Scorecard, a process that gives teams the insight into how they are performing and the planning tools necessary to help them improve. The Team Scorecard can increases team synergy to produce better decision making, execution, and outcomes. It emphasizes real-life issues that affect the team teaches how teams can improve accountability, raise the level of candor, and produce next steps to foster continuous improvement.

In this interactive session, the audience will witness the recreation of an unemployment appeal hearing. See firsthand how the evidence and testimony are presented, as well as the direct and cross examination of witnesses. This entertaining session will also delve into the roles of the key participants in a hearing including the Administrative Law Judge, the employer representative and employer witnesses, and of course the claimant.

This session will provide strategic planning guidance relating to merger, acquisition, reorganization, or divestiture transactions, including:

• Overview of types of transactions
• Due diligence and strategic planning design
• Implementation and compliance considerations
• M&A Best Practices

Deliver pay without checks using direct deposit and payroll cards, and how you can give former employees access to pay stubs outside of your Intranet.

Learn how to manage the requirements behind the New York and California Wage Theft Prevention Acts and hear about what other states are considering enacting similar legislation about regularly reporting employee wages.

Improper Payments in the UI system totaled $17 billion last year and that number keeps on rising. Find out where Improper Payments are being found in the system and what you – as employers – can do to help reduce fraud and waste.

Chad Richter from Jackson Lewis will analyze the practical use and impact of social networking in the workplace, highlighting opportunities and challenges for employers. He will share what every employer needs to know in the electronic age and will review steps you can take in addressing the myriad of legal issues relating to electronic media. Topics include the common risks of Internet searches, how you can use information from these sites in making employment decisions, and emerging trends and cases.

Most companies are awash in a sea of workforce data, but very few can leverage that information to identify root causes and take action. Join us to learn how to design a methodology that ensures you track only the most important metrics, and discover 16 key performance indicators critical to improving your organization's operations, recruiting, retention, and compliance. Participants will leave the session understanding how to transform their workforce data into powerful insights that increase revenue and reduce costs.

How to comply with IRS statutory requirements and make employees happy at tax time.

What you can do to make your organization's hiring and onboarding process more efficient and cost effective, including eliminating manual data entry and increasing compliance.

From improved community and workforce relations to direct unemployment savings and all points in between, a consistent reemployment strategy can provide truly outstanding results. Listen in as representatives from the University of Texas System, Whole Foods Markets, and the County of Yakima discuss their reemployment programs and the results they have experienced.

See a demonstration of TALX Workforce Analytics, powered by eThority. Understand how you can gain easy and actionable workforce metrics – with significant ROI –from the data you already entrust to TALX. Learn how to quickly expand that ROI through additional data and near-instant customization.