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President’s Message Chad V. Sorenson, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, 2016 SHRM Jacksonville President
The first half of 2016 has been great for SHRM Jacksonville. Our attendance at
the monthly chapter meetings is consistently greater than the same months last
year. We also had a great 2016 SHRM Jacksonville Annual Conference and
raised a record amount of money for the SHRM Foundation (see page 3), setting
the stage to surpass our top 15 finish last year of SHRM chapter contributions
nationwide.
SHRM Jacksonville has also been awarded the Silver EXCEL Award for 2015
from SHRM, in addition to becoming a 2015 SHRM Foundation Chapter
Champion. These couldn’t have been achieved without the excellent work of our
board of directors and the support we receive from our members!
I would also like to congratulate our outstanding student chapters and in particular
to Nova Southeastern University for earning the SHRM Student Chapter Superior
Merit Award and to Webster University for the Honorable Mention Award. SHRM
Jacksonville is proud to have such active and professional student chapters!
SHRM Jacksonville is active and making a difference in our community and the
profession in Northeast Florida!
Our August meeting will be held jointly with the Northeast Florida Chapter of the
Association for Talent Development (ATD). More information and registration
details will be listed on our website this week.
Finally, don’t forget to register for the 2016 HR Florida Conference and Expo. This
conference has been approved for 14 SHRM PDC’s and 14 HRCI credits and with
more than 100 concurrent sessions to choose from, there is something for
everyone! Click on the banner below to register today before prices increase at
the end of the month.
Thank you for your continued support of SHRM Jacksonville!
In this issue:
2016 chapter meetings
Legal updates
SHRM Jacksonville Supervisor Training
Thank you to our Business Partners
June / July 2016 SHRM Jacksonville’s Monthly Newsletter
2016 July Chapter Meeting
Advocacy – Shaping HR Public Policy
Speaker: Robert Carragher, SHRM’s
Senior State Affairs Advisor
Special Guest: FL Senator Aaron Bean, 4th District
As an HR professional, you are uniquely positioned to shape the development of federal and state workplace laws and regulations. This presentation takes you through the basic steps of becoming involved in the public policy process; best practices for contacting, meeting, and building lasting relationships with elected officials and their staffs; and effective ways to communicating the HR professional’s perspective on key workplace issues.
Registration 11:30 a.m.
Meeting begins 12:00 p.m.
Presentation – Senator Aaron Bean 12:30 p.m.
Presentation – Robert Carragher 1:00 p.m.
Meeting ends 2:00 p.m.
Maggiano’s Little Italy
10367 Mid Town Parkway
Jacksonville, FL 32246
*The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the
quality of the activity. It means that this activity has met the HR Certification
Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
UPCOMING MEETINGS July 14 – Advocacy – Shaping HR
Public Policy (Speaker: Bob
Carragher; Location: Maggiano’s;
Time: 12 noon)
August 4 – Creating a Coaching
Culture for Increased Performance
& Engagement (Speaker: Casey
Gibson; Location: Sheraton
Jacksonville; Time: 12 noon)
August 4 – The Finalized Changes to
the FLSA (Speaker: Evan Gibbs –
Immediately following the August
Chapter Meeting – no cost for this
event)
August 29 – 31 (HR Florida Annual
Conference & Expo)
September 8 – Master Series –
morning session
September 23 – 4th Annual
Supervisor Training
October 6 – Diversity & Inclusion
Update – Late afternoon meeting
November 3 – Master Series –
morning session
December 1 – Legal Update –
extended morning session
July 14th – Register at the Door!
SHRM Foundation Updates
SHRM Jacksonville 2016 Conference Silent Auction Results – New Record Amount Raised!
The silent auction was a huge success this year thanks to all of our amazing vendors who donated items and to those of you who purchased all of the amazing packages. We can’t thank you enough for your generosity and support. We raised over $5000 for the SHRM Foundation in just one day and it’s all because of you! Don’t forget, when you are out shopping with your gift cards or using the items you purchased through the silent auction, please remember to thank the wonderful businesses who supported our event. We couldn’t have done it without their generosity!
SHRM Certification Scholarships 2016 – Deadline is this week
The SHRM Foundation will award 185 scholarships in 2016 to assist HR professionals in obtaining their SHRM certification. SHRM members may apply for this $750 award to support their pursuit of professional SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2016 (awarded in October)
Funds may be used for any combination of test preparation-such as SHRM Certification Preparation tools and/or exam fees. Scholarship recipients will be required to provide documentation of their certification expenses before receiving their award check.
Criteria/Application Process: • You must have a current SHRM membership to apply for an award and the membership must be active throughout the year in which you receive the award. SHRM student members are not eligible for this program. (View scholarships for SHRM student members online.) • You must be preparing to sit for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification exam. Members who have already taken a SHRM certification exam in the 2016 calendar year are also eligible to apply. • Employees or board members of SHRM or the SHRM Foundation or other SHRM affiliate (not including chapters), and members of their immediate family are not eligible to apply for SHRM Foundation grants, awards or scholarships. • The application includes contact information and a series of short answer questions about your volunteer experience and your career aspirations. You will also be asked to upload a current resume that includes your SHRM/SHRM Foundation volunteer experience, and one letter of reference. Reference letters should be addressed to the “SHRM Foundation Scholarship Review Committee” and should provide insight into your character, career and volunteer accomplishments, work ethic, values and need for the scholarship. • See more at: https://shrm.org/about/foundation/scholarships/pages/shrm-certification-scholarships.aspx#sthash.IlEily4t.dpuf
Legal Updates
THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR UPDATES FMLA POSTER AND ISSUES NEW EMPLOYER GUIDE TO FMLA By Lindsay Swiger, Holland & Knight
The federal Department of Labor (DOL) recently took two actions on the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
First, the DOL issued an updated poster on the FMLA. Covered employers can find an electronic copy of the updated
FMLA poster here (https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf). The new poster reorganizes the
information to make it easier to read.
Covered employers need not immediately take their old FMLA posters down. The DOL states:
The February 2013 version of the FMLA poster is still good and can be used to fulfill the posting requirement.
In other words, covered employers can use either the poster version dated 02/13 or the version dated 04/16.
The FMLA generally covers private-sector employers who employ 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks in the
current or previous calendar year and all public sector employers. All employers covered by the FMLA are required to
display the FMLA poster which summarizes the major provisions of the FMLA and tells employees how to file a complaint.
The poster must be displayed in a conspicuous location where employees can see it.
An employer who willfully violates this posting requirement may be assessed a civil penalty of $110 for each separate
offense. In addition to displaying the poster, a covered employer must also include the same information that is in the
poster in its employee handbook.
Second, the DOL published a new Employer’s Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act. The Guide can be found online
here (https://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/employerguide.pdf . The Guide is designed to provide essential information about the
FMLA, including information about employers’ obligations under the law and the options available to employers in
administering leave under the FMLA. The Guide is organized to correspond to the order of events from an employee’s
leave request to restoration of the employee to the same or equivalent job at the end of the employee’s FMLA leave.
July Chapter Meeting Sponsors
News from Our Student Chapter
2016 Career Development Conference a Success!
We are thrilled to report that our 2016 Career Development Conference “How to Be on the Cutting Edge of Your Career”
was a great success!!!! We had 79 RSVPS, 53 attendees: 14 SHRM
Jacksonville Professional Members, 8 SHRM Student members, 12 NSU
students, and 4 NSU Alumni.
This event was planned and executed in collaboration with the NSU
Jacksonville SHRM Student Chapter and SHRM Jacksonville College
Relations Committee and also supported by the Jacksonville Campus,
Jacksonville Student Government Association, and our NSU Student Affairs.
The conference entailed a ½ day event with an amazing line up of
presentations covering a variety of topics to enhance professional growth &
development including leadership, emotional intelligence, building strong
communication and networking skills, resume writing with eye-catching accomplishment statements, behavioral
interviewing techniques, and utilizing SMART goals to bring vision to reality.
We had 8 speakers and the conference was approved for 3 HRCI credits and 4
SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs).
We invited current students, alumni, our prospective students, education and
corporate partners, Jax Chamber groups, and the community. We also invited
the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Association of Talent
Development (ATD), and The Hispanic Institute for Life and Leadership (The
H.I.L.L.) and HandsOn Jacksonville who set up tables to promote volunteerism
and professional association membership.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to our 2016 Conference Sponsors
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Gold
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Contact Us
Please visit our website
for the latest news and
upcoming events:
SHRMJax.org
There you can also find
the contact information
for each of the
Chapter’s individual
Board Members.
2016 Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Chad V. Sorenson, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
PRESIDENT ELECT
Tammy Vlah, CRP
TREASURER
Cynthia Farmer, EdD, MBA
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Linda Willey, MHR, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
SECRETARY
Leigh Nelson, PHR, SHRM-SCP
VP, PROGRAMS
Natasha Slaughter, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
DIVERSITY/WORKFORCE READINESS DIRECTOR
Lisa Smith, PHR, SHRM-CP
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Heidi Barfield
TECHNOLOGY CHAIR
Marti Pounder, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
FOUNDATION DIRECTOR
Heather Cosgrove, SPHR
LEGISLATIVE/GOV’T. AFFAIRS
Alice Velez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
CERTIFICATION DIRECTOR
Gloria Davis, EdD, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
CHAIR, BUSINESS PARTNERS
Angie Tekin, SHRM-CP, PHR
COLLEGE RELATIONS DIR.
Julie Fagan
OPERATIONS CHAIR
Chase Foy, SHRM-CP
MARKETING CHAIR
OPEN
SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR
Chase Johnson, SHRM-CP
Volunteer Opportunity
SHRM Jacksonville is looking for an excited volunteer to serve as the Marketing Chair. We would like to thank Kerry Schicker for serving in the position, but due to changing responsibilities at work, Kerry had to step down. The Marketing Chair is responsible for publishing the monthly newsletter, assisting with the promotion of our events, and working with our Social Media Chair to spread the word about SHRM Jacksonville. This person must be comfortable with designing and producing our newsletter. If you are interested, please email Chad Sorenson at [email protected]
