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Overview

We will go over the most up to date employment laws. Additionally, we will be covering everything you need to know through the hiring process all the way through termination. 

We will be going through job descriptions - including defining the job’s scope and nature of the work and documenting proper decision making and essential job functions. Employee classification is another area in which it's vital to properly classify someone as exempt or non-exempt and to make the determination prior to recruitment. 

Employment applications can help you evaluate experience, skills, training and limitations and why it's important to be conscientious on gathering information about a potential job candidate. When you are recruiting employees and advertising to them, you must comply with anti-discrimination laws and preserve the at-will relationship. Interviewing candidates and how consistency is key. 

We will learn the top 5 interviewing mistakes businesses make and how to make good selection practices throughout hiring.  
We will go over policies and how to make consistent decisions with your employees. 

We will also be covering layoffs and furloughs in the age of COVID-19 and how to handle them in a way to limit your chances of being sued.  We will also be covering wrongful termination lawsuits and developing a termination checklist.   

Why you should Attend

We will be covering the most up to date employment laws, everything from interviewing and hiring to discipline and termination.

Asking the right questions in a job interview can be tough, especially when the person asking the questions is not trained to know the limits of what they can ask.

Terminating employees can be difficult, find out the top mistakes business owners make and how to avoid them.

Areas Covered in the Session

Upon course completion, you will be able to:

• Spot legal landmines in job applications
• Craft legally compliant interview questions
• Protect the at-will relationship
• Understand how to classify employees as exempt or non-exempt
• Reduce your odds of making a mistake during the hiring process
• Understand the concept of at-will employment
• Identify red flags in discipline and termination policies
• Make well reasoned decisions on employee discipline and termination
• Understand when you cannot terminate
• Learn how to avoid wrongful termination lawsuits
• Develop a termination checklist

Who Will Benefit

• CEO's -c-suite Executives
• Human Resources