Weekly Update Newsletter  
November 1, 2017 
In This Issue
NEW! Network: PHRA Holiday Party
LPD: How to Create a Top Workplace
LPD: Employment Law Day
LPD: 2018 EEOC Review
LPD: Exit Performance Reviews- Enter Better Goal Setting, Feedback, Coaching, and Development.
LPD: Engage and Retain the Good Ones- Connecting Employer Brand to Talent Management
LPD: The Best Superheroes for Talent Acquisition and What To Do if You're a Mere Mortal
LPD: Workplace Highs and Lows- Medical Marijuana in Pennsylvania and the Husbandry of the ADA and FMLA
LPD: Managing Strategic Change
Member Benefit Spotlight: Tuition Discount
PHRA Announcements
PHRA Career Center
HR Newswatch
Vendor Spotlight: Orasure
PHRA Vendor Directory

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NEW! Network: PHRA Holiday Party
Date:  Wednesday, December 6
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location:   DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown
NEW! LPD: How to Create a Top Workplace
Date:  Wednesday, November 8
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location:  PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
LPD: Employment Law Day
Date:  Friday, December 1
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location:  DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh Cranberry
LPD: LIVE! Webinar: 2018 EEOC Review
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Learn More & Register
LPD: Exit Performance Reviews- Enter Better Goal Setting, Feedback, Coaching, and Development
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Learn More & Register
LPD: Engage and Retain the Good Ones- Connecting Employer Brand to Talent Management 
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location: PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Learn More & Register
NEW! LPD: The Best Superheroes for Talent Acquisition and What To Do if You're a Mere Mortal
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location: PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Learn More & Register
NEW! LPD: Workplace Highs and Lows- Medical Marijuana in Pennsylvania and the Husbandry of the ADA and FMLA
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location: PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Learn More & Register
NEW! LPD: Managing Strategic Change
Date:  Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location:  PHRA Training Center, Downtown PGH
Member Benefit: Tuition Discount
The PHRA believes that knowledge is power, and that's why we're thrilled to offer our members significant tuition discounts to several local and online colleges and universities. PHRA members receive a:

  • 35% tuition discount at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School
  • 20% tuition discount on undergraduate and graduate programs at Point Park University
  • 15% tuition discount at Colorado Technical University
  • 20% tuition discount at La Roche College undergraduate and graduate programs
  • 15% tuition discount to Geneva College's online Master of Science in Leadership Studies
  • 15% tuition discount at Robert Morris University
  • 15% tuition discount at Franklin University undergraduate and graduate programs

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SHRM Seminars 

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Disclaimer:  Offer only applies to SHRM Seminars hosted between August and December 2017, excluding Virtual SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP Certification Preparation Review. Offer does not apply to Seminars outside the U.S., SHRM Conferences or Seminars held at SHRM Conferences. Offer does not apply to other SHRM products. Offer applies to online and phone orders only. It does not apply to mailed-in orders, faxed orders, or purchase orders. Offer is not valid on previous orders and cannot be combined with other promotions.
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PHRA Announcements
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Pittsburgh HR Association - How Membership Will Accelerate Your HR Career
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HR Newswatch
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Vendor Spotlight
OraSure Technologies has a long history of meeting the needs of our customers in a highly convenient and cost-effective manner. OraSure's Intercept® Oral Fluid Drug Testing System was the first FDA-cleared in-vitro diagnostic laboratory-based oral fluid drug testing system, and is the only one that is FDA cleared for detection of nine commonly abused drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, PCP, amphetamines, methamphetamine, barbiturates, methadone and benzodiazepines. It combines the ease, efficiency, and cost savings of oral fluid collection with increased sample integrity and the accuracy of laboratory-based drug tests.

OraSure also manufactures and sells the OraSure ® Oral Fluid Collection Device and laboratory testing assays for the detection of cotinine in oral fluid. Cotinine testing may be used in a number of situations to evaluate the possible use of tobacco products such as: smoking cessation programs, prospective employment screening, evaluations of applicants for health or life insurance and health and wellness programs.

In addition, OraSure offers the QED ® saliva alcohol test. QED is a CLIA-waived and DOT approved on-site, rapid, low cost alternative to breath or blood testing. With a high correlation to blood alcohol levels, QED has a testing range of 0-145 mg/dL and provides quantitative results in minutes. And TruTouch is a novel, optically based, non-invasive sensor that quickly and accurately measures alcohol for fit for duty compliance while simultaneously verifying user identity using light through the skin.

Please contact Laurie Jantz at [email protected] or 610-597-5538 for more information.


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Members Only: Perspectives Publication Archives
PHRA Members receive access to all editions of the association's bi-monthly electronic newsletter, Perspectives, published six times a year. Stay up to date on the latest HR issues and association news and highlights and click  here
PHRA Vendor Directory 
Each month, more than 1,100 HR Professionals turn to the PHRA website in the course of their work. Many of these professionals are searching for products and services to help them approach their jobs more effectively.  As a valued PHRA member we would like to offer you two months free with the purchase of a 12 month posting on the  NEW PHRA Vendor Directory.

 

 

The PHRA Vendor Directory is a searchable, on-line tool for product and service referrals within the field of HR available to both members and non-members. Any company or individual may purchase a listing.

 

The directory is a listing of your company and contact information in up to two out of twenty five areas of HR product and service specialization. Listings are accessible to anyone and may be searched by the product/service category. 

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The Pittsburgh Human Resources Association (PHRA) is a membership organization and a source of practical policy, regulatory, workforce and emerging trend information for human resource and business professionals.  

 

PHRA services enhance the HR professional's leadership role in the vitality of the region's workforce and economy. Representing more than 1100 individual members, the Association's mission is to serve the HR community by providing superior professional development, networking opportunities and educational resources to enhance the value of the profession. Founded in 1915, PHRA has been improving the competency and value of the HR professional and is the premier human resources association in the region.  

 

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