Employee Terminations: How to Reduce Legal Risk Before, During & After the Decision!
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Webinar Overview
Webinar Description
Terminating an employee is never easy. But doing it the wrong way can be even harder-and far more costly. Employers today face more potential challenges when making termination, disciplinary, demotion, suspension, or reduction-in-force decisions.
Employees are increasingly aware of their workplace rights, regulatory agencies are providing more resources for employees to understand and assert those rights, and whistleblower and retaliation protections continue to create additional considerations for employers.
That means a termination decision that seems straightforward can quickly raise questions about discrimination, retaliation, documentation, protected activity, consistency, or compliance with applicable regulations.
Why Should You Attend This Training?
And the risks don’t necessarily end with the termination itself. Poorly handled terminations can expose organizations to litigation, fines, penalties, regulatory scrutiny, and significant workplace safety concerns.
Managers and supervisors can also create additional risk through poor judgment, inconsistent practices, inadequate documentation, or failure to recognize potential legal red flags.
So, before you say “You’re fired,” what should you know?
This practical webinar will help employers, HR professionals, and managers understand the legal and operational considerations that should be addressed before, during, and after an employee termination.
Areas to Be Covered During the Session
Participants will learn how to:
- Conduct employee terminations with dignity, respect, consistency, and compliance in mind.
- Identify and mitigate potential wrongful termination allegations before they arise.
- Develop a practical termination checklist to help reduce organizational risk.
- Understand EEOC regulations and guidelines relevant to discrimination and termination decisions.
- Establish policies and procedures that give managers greater confidence when handling terminations.
- Train managers and supervisors to recognize and avoid decisions or conduct that could increase employer liability.
- Properly document performance and disciplinary issues before making a termination decision.
- Develop a termination process that promotes consistency, fairness, objectivity, and defensibility.
- Recognize common obstacles that can complicate an otherwise straightforward termination.
- Plan for volatile or high-risk terminations involving threats, weapons, aggressive behavior, domestic violence, stalking, harassment, or other safety concerns.
- Understand how retaliation protections should be evaluated before terminating an employee.
- Help managers make termination decisions more confidently while reducing unnecessary legal and workplace risk.
Target Audience
- Human Resources Professionals
- Employers and Business Owners
- Managers and Supervisors
- Executives
- Compliance Professionals
- Employee Relations Professionals
- Anyone responsible for disciplinary or termination decisions
Ask your question directly from our expert during the Q&A session following the live event.
Enrolled attendees earn CE credit for this course
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SHRM - 1.5 Credit
This program is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® credential holders. This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs toward SHRM recertification requirements.
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HRCI - 1.5 Credit
This program has been approved for 1.5 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
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Meet Your Instructor
Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP
HR Compliance Expert & Human Resources Professional
Margie Faulk is a senior-level human resources professional with over 18 years of workplace compliance experience and HR consulting experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC. Margie has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Margie’s new focus is to provide Employers and Professionals with risk management strategies to develop risk management strategies to mitigate workplace violations.
As founder of HR Compliance Solutions, LLC, Margie delivers practical, real-world compliance training through live webinars, elearning, and seminars. Her training is designed for HR professionals, business owners, and managers who need to understand what the regulations require — and exactly what to do about it. She has trained more than 1,000 employers and professionals across the US and globally.
Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduce potential workplace fines and penalties from violations of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) and fluent and bicultural.
Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE). Margie is also a SHRM Certification Credit Provider offering SHRM-CP and SHRM-SPC credits for her training which major HR individuals need to maintain their certification credits.
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