How to Fire an Employee- Best Practices for Legal and Ethical Terminations
Instructor:
Brenda Neckvatal
Brenda Neckvatal
Wednesday
October
16
2024
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration:
60 Minutes
Webinar ID: 73941
Live: One Dial-in One Attendee
Corporate Live: Any number of participants
Recorded: Access recorded version, only for one participant unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Corporate Recorded: Access recorded version, Any number of participants unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
Overview:
This course will help you turn these challenges into strengths, making you a more effective and legally compliant leader.
Why should you Attend:
Whether you're a seasoned manager or new to handling terminations, this course is crucial if you want to ensure that your termination processes are both legal and ethical.
You'll learn how to:
With Brenda’s expert guidance, you'll leave the course with the confidence to handle terminations legally, ethically, and with the professionalism that maintains your company’s integrity.
Take control of the termination process with confidence. Join us for "How to Fire an Employee: Best Practices for Legal and Ethical Terminations" and learn how to conduct terminations that are not only compliant with the law but also uphold the highest standards of ethical leadership.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Who Will Benefit:
In our course, "How to Fire an Employee: Best Practices for Legal and Ethical Terminations," you'll gain the essential knowledge and strategies needed to conduct terminations with confidence, legality, and respect.
Brenda Neckvatal, an international award-winning HR professional and three-time Best Selling Author, will guide you through the critical aspects of employee termination, ensuring that you understand the nuances of at-will employment, labor law violations, and best practices for minimizing risk.
When you consider the challenges of terminating an employee, do you have:
- Fear of legal repercussions due to potential violations of labor laws or wrongful termination claims?
- Uncertainty about how to properly apply at-will employment principles while respecting employee rights?
- Difficulty in managing emotions during the termination process, both for yourself and the employee being let go?
- Concern about maintaining a positive workplace culture even after difficult decisions like terminations are made?
- Pressure to communicate the reasons for termination clearly, respectfully, and without escalating tensions?
- Challenges navigating the impact of recent changes in labor laws, including the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulings, on termination practices?
- Balancing the need to protect company interests with the ethical obligation to treat employees fairly and with dignity?
This course will help you turn these challenges into strengths, making you a more effective and legally compliant leader.
Why should you Attend:
Whether you're a seasoned manager or new to handling terminations, this course is crucial if you want to ensure that your termination processes are both legal and ethical.
You'll learn how to:
- Understand the legal considerations involved in the termination process, including federal and state laws related to discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination
- Apply best practices for conducting a termination meeting, including how to communicate the reasons for termination clearly and respectfully
- Manage potential reactions and emotions from the employee being terminated, ensuring the conversation remains professional and controlled
- Minimize the impact of a termination on the remaining employees and the overall workplace culture, fostering a respectful environment even after difficult decisions
- Navigate the implications of recent NLRB rulings on confidentiality agreements and anti-disparaging clauses, understanding how to maintain compliance while protecting your business
- Develop a solid legal strategy before consulting with an attorney, making your approach to termination more effective and risk-averse
With Brenda’s expert guidance, you'll leave the course with the confidence to handle terminations legally, ethically, and with the professionalism that maintains your company’s integrity.
Take control of the termination process with confidence. Join us for "How to Fire an Employee: Best Practices for Legal and Ethical Terminations" and learn how to conduct terminations that are not only compliant with the law but also uphold the highest standards of ethical leadership.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Legal considerations in the termination process, including adherence to federal and state laws regarding discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination
- Best practices for conducting termination meetings, focusing on clear and respectful communication of the reasons for termination
- Strategies for managing emotions and reactions during the termination process, with tips for handling difficult conversations professionally
- Approaches to minimizing the impact of terminations on the remaining workforce and maintaining a positive workplace culture
- Understanding the recent NLRB rulings affecting confidentiality agreements and anti-disparaging clauses, and how these changes influence termination practices
- Building a legal strategy that preempts potential issues, ensuring that terminations are conducted in a manner that is both legally sound and ethically responsible
Who Will Benefit:
- Risk Assessors
- Human Resources Personnel
- CEO's
- Supervisors
- HR Managers
- Legal Advisors
Speaker Profile
Brenda Neckvatal is an international award-winning HR professional and two time Best Selling Author. Not only does she help business leaders get the people side of their business right, she is a specialist in crisis management, government contracting HR compliance, and mentor to rising entrepreneurs, business leaders, HR champions and professionals.
Brenda has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc, as well as US News and World Reports. She started as an HR sprout after a solid fourteen-year career in retail management. She really enjoys helping people solve their unique problems, and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers more. Having the benefit of working for six Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into advising her audience to use tried and trusted best practices that help small businesses achieve their workforce goals.
In her combined 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted with over 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs associated with making hasty employment-related decisions.
She has been involved with employee situations where they have engaged in workplace violence, a near stabbing, deliberately inciting fear in other coworkers, stalking women, breaches of protocol around national security, assault, suicide, death, homicide, and a potential active shooter.
Brenda is a devoted volunteer in the Navy SEAL Community and is constantly finding new ways of supporting veterans of Naval Special Warfare. She dedicates 32 weeks a year to working with The Honor Foundation to support the career transition of Special Forces personnel by providing them with her knowledge, insight, and creativity.
Perseverance, integrity, and relentless optimism are just a few of the ingredients that make up what you experience when meeting and working with Brenda.