Managing Layoffs: Legal Compliance, Communication & Employee Impact
Dec 09 |
01:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM MT / 10:00 AM PT | |
| Duration: 60 minutes | Speaker: Kyle Patrick Smith | |
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ABOUT THE EVENT
Layoffs are happening. Is your HR team prepared to manage them correctly?
More than 1 in 7 HR professionals reported that their organization had conducted a workforce reduction in the previous 30 days.
Are your selection criteria defensible? Are you meeting WARN and state notification requirements? Can your managers handle difficult conversations without creating additional problems?
Learn how to navigate the legal requirements, communicate with confidence, and protect both departing employees and the workforce that remains.
Don't leave one of your organization's most sensitive workforce decisions to improvisation. Build a structured, consistent, and well-documented approach to managing layoffs.
What You'll Learn
- Turn a business decision into a coordinated HR, legal, operational, and communication plan.
- Establish consistent selection criteria and documentation that support defensible decisions.
- Recognize potential discrimination, adverse impact, retaliation, leave, and accommodation concerns.
- Navigate WARN and mini-WARN obligations, final pay, benefits, severance, releases, and recordkeeping.
- Prepare executives and managers to communicate workforce reductions clearly and consistently.
- Handle employee notification meetings, difficult questions, and sensitive conversations with professionalism.
- Support departing employees while rebuilding trust, morale, productivity, and retention among remaining employees.
Who Should Attend?
CHROs, HR Directors, HR Managers, HR Business Partners, Employee Relations Professionals, Compliance Officers, Talent Acquisition Leaders, Employment Counsel, Operations Leaders, and business executives involved in workforce planning and employment decisions.
Walk away with a practical framework, actionable questions, and implementation strategies to help your organization manage layoffs with greater consistency, confidence, and care.
Kyle Patrick Smith
Kyle Patrick Smith is the CEO and Founder of HRKyle Services and a human resources executive, consultant, trainer, author, and speaker with 28 years of corporate HR leadership experience across multiple industries. His expertise spans virtually every facet of talent management, including talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, leadership development, organizational development, retention, employment law and compliance, workforce restructuring, and organizational change. Kyle brings a practitioner’s perspective to training. His programs are grounded in nearly three decades of actually doing the work—making difficult HR decisions, advising executives and managers, handling complex employee relations issues, building talent strategies, leading organizational change, and navigating the realities that HR professionals face every day. His philosophy is simple: training should go beyond theory. Attendees should leave with practical information, tools, strategies, and approaches they can immediately put to work in their organizations. Kyle is also the author of Recruiting Is Easy and Get the Job You Love.
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