Effective Discipline and Lawsuit-Proof Termination: How to Remedy Performance and Conduct Problems While Minimizing Your Legal Risks

In this progressive discipline and employee termination webinar understand the best practices of creating performance improvement plans, and how to avoid mistakes while disciplining or terminating employees (including older and protected class workers).

Why Should You Attend:

Disciplining and terminating workers who are underperforming or breaking the rules is stressful for even the most skilled manager. Even worse, there are so many ways to get it wrong; failing to document all incidents regarding a discharge, firing an employee who has health or personal problems, or waiting until the employee’s performance has deteriorated past the point of no return to address it.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• How to turn problem employees around.
• How to decide when it's time to stop coaching and start disciplining individual employees.
• How to determine what is appropriate discipline.
• Best practices for preparing, communicating, and documenting performance improvement plans for your workers.
• The most common mistakes employers make with progressive discipline (and how you can avoid repeating them).
• The step-by-step procedures you should always follow when discharging an employee.
• What you should always say - and what you must never say - when letting an employee go.
• How to handle the termination meeting - who should attend, and what to say and do.
• The legal thresholds you must meet when firing workers based on bad behavior or poor performance.
• How to avoid (and defend yourself against) bias and retaliation claims made by departing employees.
• How to avoid making mistakes when disciplining or terminating older workers and other "protected class" employees.
• The special challenges presented by workers out on leave, from FMLA and USERRA to workers comp.

Who Will Benefit:

• HR managers
• Department heads and supervisors
• Owners and managers of small businesses
• HR professionals
• Managers