Meeting

GCHRA Welcomes Amanda Vallejo

Program Information: To provide Human Resource professionals with current information, workplace trends and guidance regarding working in a multigenerational work environment, and how to improve communication between the generations that will result in improved production and employee engagement.

TBA

TBA

This month's speaker is Sonny Blackwell with Bancorp South Insurance Services.  The meeting topic is Risk Management/Loss Prevention. General CEU pending.

(NOTE: the CEU for February is also pending - SHRM headquarters was flooded in late January and is still trying to recover and catch up. As soon as we receive, will email to all who attended.)

Mary Allen from Central Mississippi Planning and Development District will provide

• General information on the workings of DOL grant program and OJT program
• Specific information to apply for DOL Federal grant to employ workers in MS in the Information Technology and Advanced Manufacturing/Engineering industries or occupations
• Difference between the DOL grant and the WIA program
• Question and answers

She will also provide additional resources from the WIN Job Center for application for WIA and for the DOL grant.

Affordable Care Act

Sherri Baker - Brown & Brown of Mississippi, LLC

Holiday Breakfast

Summary of 2013 activities, installation of officers and prize giveaways!

Topic: “Training Managers and Supervisors About Retaliation and More”

Speaker: LaToya C. Merritt Phelps Dunbar, LLP

Managing Stress in the Workplace

Elisabeth Doehring, CWWPM, GPHR, PHR