This training provides supervisors with practical guidance on conducting fair, consistent, and legally compliant job interviews. Attendees will learn which questions are permitted or prohibited, the importance of consistency and structuring interviews around job-related criteria, and how to avoid common legal pitfalls. The session also covers bias awareness and documentation best practices to help ensure lawful hiring decisions.

Drawing on preliminary statewide guidance from WaTech and the AI Task Force, international standards, and best practices from the IAPP AI Governance Professional program, this webinar will focus on how agencies without approved AI tools can safely begin adopting interim guidelines for AI use and building a policy approach consistent with Washington law and technical best practices. Agencies with existing AI tools and policies will gain insight on how to further evaluate and strengthen their policies and processes using recognized AI governance best practices. Specific topics will include: - Assessing risk and readiness - Issuing employee guidelines - Developing AI governance best practices - Adopting compliant and sustainable policies - Maintaining compliance: training, auditing, and accountability

Training on basic legal concepts in working with represented employees and their bargaining representatives. Content of this training will include: - How the collective bargaining process works, including mandatory and permissive subjects of bargaining; - Uniformed and non-uniformed impasse resolution; - Past practices; and - Conduct that may constitute an unfair labor practice.

Training on what constitutes “just cause.” This training will cover: - The traditional elements of just cause; - Procedural requirements (e.g., Loudermill, Weingarten, Garrity); and - Strategies for navigating the disciplinary process.

Training on how to conduct personnel investigations. This training will cover: - Procedural considerations; - Potential legal issues arising from investigations; - Investigation documentation; and - Useful strategies in the investigative process.

This webinar explains how public agencies can build incident response plans that hold up under real-world pressure. The session focuses on creating plans that are clear, actionable, and ready to use during a security incident or data breach aligned with Washington State cybersecurity and data breach notification requirements. You will learn how to identify what information the agency must protect, outline roles and responsibilities, and set up a process that works in practice, not just on paper. Topics will include: 1. Building and maintaining an accurate data and systems inventory 2. Key components of an effective incident response plan 3. Steps for training, testing, and refining the plan 4. How to review and update the plan to keep it current and usable

Employers need to ensure performance evaluations work for them, not against them. Attendees of this session will gain an understanding of the following: - The importance of conducting candid and constructive evaluations, including legal issues arising from evaluations; - Tips for developing an effective performance evaluation process; and - Strategies for dealing with challenging evaluation scenarios.

This training equips HR professionals and hiring managers with the knowledge and tools to conduct recruitment and hiring processes that are fair, consistent, and legally compliant. Attendees will learn how to design job postings, screen candidates, and conduct interviews in accordance with federal and state employment laws. The session also covers strategies for reducing bias, documenting decisions, and ensuring ADA and other legal considerations are met.

Outdated perspectives and entrenched, positional relationships have long plagued labor relations. Parties too often approach bargaining as an act of war and strife, rather than as a pursuit of peace and satisfaction in the workplace. This presentation will invite participants to reimagine and shift their bargaining relationships from a short-term, positional, win-at-all-costs mentality to a collaborative, long-term focus. Using hypotheticals and the lens of empirical research, psychology, sociology, and economics we will invite participants to: - Rethink strategy, biases, and assumptions that underly labor relations and bargaining - Add new tools and perspectives to your toolkit - Reframe labor relations issues for better results

Amendments to Washington’s PFML statute taking effect on January 1, 2026, will have significant impacts on how employers administer PFML leave. This webinar will help employers understand coming PFML changes in the following areas: o Expanded eligibility for job-protected leave, including new obligations affecting small employers; o New employer notice requirements; o Employer’s obligation to maintain health insurance during PFML leave; and o Employer’s ability to limit leave stacking (subject to onerous notice requirements)