TOPIC: Is Affirmative Action still Affirmative Action? (HRCI credits applied for)

WHEN: Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Registration and Continental Breakfast 7:45 - 8:05 AM

Meeting 8:05 - 9:35 AM

SPEAKER: Robert Anzalone, Managing Partner, Gaucher Associates

CONTENT: It’s new program year; 2007/2008. It’s time once again to continue our professional development. As HR professionals we need more than just the information necessary to get through the day. A professional needs to bring new ideas to the company and be able to speak with knowledge.

Following a brief business meeting, we begin the year with a look at Affirmative Action where has it been and where is it going. The federal government is certainly getting more active in auditing for compliance with over $50 million recovered from employers in 06 and even more activity in 07.

Come hear about and discuss:

*Affirmative Action

A. History
B. Who’s covered
C. What is it, really?
D. How can it affect y

*The Jobs for Veterans Act (JVA) - changes that may impact your company

*EEO-1 – new report in 2007, new categories in 2008

Hear our speaker and join your peers in dealing with these and other issues.

SPEAKER BIO: Robert Anzalone is Vice President, Business Development and a Managing Partner of Gaucher Associates. Bob came to Gaucher Associates in 2000 after more than 20 years in corporate Human Resources for organizations such as TAC Worldwide, Mariner Health Care, R.D. Gatti and Associates, Boston University and Howard Johnson Company.

Bob is a graduate of Boston University and has been a member of the faculty of Bentley College’s Center for Executive and Professional Education. Bob’s client activities are focused in the areas of Employee Relations, Wage and Hour, Employment Law Compliance and Human Resources Management