Avoiding Lawsuits in Discipline & Performance Management

Duration: 60 minutes

Speaker: Melissa Fleischer, Esq

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ABOUT THE EVENT

Employee Discipline & Performance Management: Legal Standards and Best Practices

This webinar will provide an overview of the legal issues you need to know about when managing performance and disciplining employees to protect you and your company from incurring future potential liability. Nothing causes more problems for employers than disciplining and terminating an employee.

This informative one-hour online live webinar will help you better understand strategies to avoid the top mistakes that employers often make when disciplining and terminating employees. This webinar will instruct on how an employer can best be protected from future potential discrimination lawsuits. It will provide important strategies and best practices when handling terminations that can protect you and your clients from future liability. Learn what the employment discrimination laws require as well as what HR policies are necessary and how to best implement those HR policies for the best protection.

Learning Objectives

Overview of the employment discrimination laws impacting the terminations of employees
Understanding the concept of employment-at-will
Strategies for effective employment policies to protect against liability
In-depth knowledge of all the protected classes under federal law
Best practices for applying HR policies effectively to avoid potential discrimination claims
Strategies for documenting poor performance and learn how to create a “paper trail”
Understanding what goes into creating a well written disciplinary warning letter
Tips on drafting termination letters that will withstand legal challenge
And much more

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is ideal for professionals involved in employee discipline, performance management, and compliance. It is especially valuable for:

HR Managers and HR Business Partners
Employee Relations Specialists
Payroll & HR Compliance Professionals
Supervisors and Team Leaders
Department Managers and Directors
Business Owners and Executives
Anyone responsible for coaching, evaluating, or disciplining employees

Speaker(s)

Melissa Fleischer, Esq

Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.

Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.

Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.

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Credits: 1.0

Compliance Prime is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for PDC(s) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org

Credits: 1.0

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