Maryland Labor and Employment Law Education and Training

Base your next HR training program on Maryland labor and employment law

By Michele Vrouvas
Maryland business owners provide on the job training in the state's labor laws that is required for all HR staff. This training teaches the necessary skills of accessing the labor statutes in primary documents and then monitoring the secondary literature to gain further insight into how lawyers and state courts interpret these laws.

You can design a Maryland labor and employment law education and training workshop for your HR staff by following just a few easy steps:

1. Search for Maryland work laws in the state's administrative code.

2. Find out how professionals are interpreting labor laws in Maryland.

3. Attend a seminar devoted to timely discussions of Maryland employment laws.

 

Encourage employees to locate MD labor laws in official documents

Begin your HR training program by demonstrating how employees can research Maryland labor regulations in the state's administrative code. This provides the fundamentals for any of their subsequent studies on employment law.
Try: Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Education provides a guide to wages and compensation and employment standards. Use Justia.com to search for Maryland labor laws by code. Go to Labor Law Talk for the full text version of laws about wage payment and deductions.

Motivate employees to search for commentaries on Maryland labor laws

Encourage HR staff not to stop once they've located the original labor statutes. They can get the most out of a Maryland labor and employment law education and training program if they go beyond the primary documents and find out how professionals, an independent agency or a Maryland employment lawyer, are interpreting them.
Try: The Maryland Employment Lawyer Blog includes a summary of recent cases pending before Maryland's high courts that involve employment-related issues. Maryland Employment Law takes up a different labor issue each day and publishes the comments that employment attorneys make. Learn how to file a claim for unemployment insurance on the Maryland Unemployment Office website.

Register for seminars and other events that discuss MD employment laws

Seminars are a crucial learning tool, especially for HR professionals. Not only do seminars allow HR staff to learn the legal processes that they must follow in implementing labor laws, but they also build key relationships they can depend on for future employment law counseling.
Try: Check in at the McGuire Woods website to learn about upcoming events, such as updates where professionals speak on issues such as recent political changes that might impact Maryland labor laws. Sign up at Seminar Information to attend events where you'll learn how to integrate new hires into the company quickly and effectively. Venable periodically hosts events that focus on topics such as recent changes to Maryland labor laws, how to terminate a workers compensation claimant and how to hire independent contractors.