Mr.Ronald Adler

Area Of Expertise : HR Compliance
42 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Human Resources

Ronald Adler is the President-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking strategic HR-business issues and unemployment insurance issues. Mr. Adler has more than 39 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, printers, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations. 
Mr. Adler is an internationally recognized thought leader on HR auditing and is the developer the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool. He is an adjunct professor at Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development and teaches courses on HR auditing and HR management. He is also a certified instructor for the CPCU Society and conducts courses on employment practices liabilities.
Ronald has served on two national task forces developing professional standards in human capital measurement and performance management. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and serves as a subject matter expert (SME) to SHRM on HR metrics and workplace issues.
He is a member of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and chairs the Chamber’s unemployment insurance subcommittee. Mr. Adler has also been a member of the U.S. Chamber and its Labor Relations Committee. 

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Live Webinar

HR Auditing - Critical Issues in 2023

The threats and risks from human capital management issues are increasing.  They are no longer measured only in fines, penalties, and awards for non-compliance. Human capital management affects key business metrics, including the organization’s valuation and c ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
  • Jun 30, 2023
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Fatal Errors Employers Make When Updating Employee Handbooks that Can Be a Legal Landmine Learn What Policies Mandated for 2023

Employee handbooks are a critical tool in providing important information to employees. They describe what employers expect of their employees and what employees can (should) expect from their employers. They provide critical information about employers and th ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Jul 03, 2023
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HR Auditing - Important Issues For 2023

HR audits are designed to help your organization focus its attention on its human resource management practices, policies, procedures, processes, and outcomes by providing you with a structured and systematic series of questions about key compliance, risk mana ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Jul 17, 2023
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HR Metrics and Analytics 2023 - Update on Strategic Planning, Application Activities, and Operational Impact

Effective HR metrics are not developed in a vacuum. The "right or best" metrics require a detailed understanding of your organization: how it generates revenue, its business strategies and objectives, its business imperatives, the risks it faces, the opportuni ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Aug 01, 2023
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The Do's and Don'ts of Record Retention and Destruction

The failure to maintain adequate and sufficient timekeeping records under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can result in a substantial back pay award. Under the FLSA, the burden is on the employer to maintain and preserve such records.  If this burden is no ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Aug 18, 2023
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Unemployment Insurance Issues: 2023 – 2024 Key Issues

Employer-paid unemployment insurance taxes and costs can be significantly important and represent a potentially critical liability. For some employers, UI tax liabilities and their relationship to other employment-related costs have begun to increase significa ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Sep 01, 2023
Live Webinar

Sexual Harassment:Key Business,Financial,Human Resource Issues

Sexual harassment claims increasingly expose your organization to significant business, financial, and human resources related costs and liabilities.  Potential claims now often exceed six-figure numbers. More importantly, sexual harassment increases recruitme ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
  • Sep 18, 2023
On-Demand Webinar

Fatal Errors Employers Make When Updating Employee Handbooks that Can Be a Legal Landmine Learn What Policies Mandated for 2023

Employee handbooks are a critical tool in providing important information to employees. They describe what employers expect of their employees and what employees can (should) expect from their employers. They provide critical information about employers and th ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

HR Auditing - Important Issues For 2023

HR audits are designed to help your organization focus its attention on its human resource management practices, policies, procedures, processes, and outcomes by providing you with a structured and systematic series of questions about key compliance, risk mana ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
Recorded Webinar

HR Auditing - Critical Issues For 2021

The threats and risks from human capital management issues are increasing. They are no longer measured in only fines, penalties, and awards for non-compliance. Human capital management affects keys business metrics, including the organization’s valuation and c ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins