Volatile Termination – Strategies to avoid Allegations of Wrongful Termination

Why Should You Attend:

Employers have always avoided the termination either because it is not easy to terminate someone or because it can be difficult to defend any allegations of wrongful termination. Employers need to be aware of the cost of these actions via litigation, fines & penalties and even criminal sanctions. Employers need to ask if they have the protections they need when they make decisions on termination, reduction in force, demotion, suspensions and disciplinary actions.

Attend this impactful webinar to understand what are the risks and regulations formulated by EEOC, what constitutes discrimination and what employees are part of protected classes and discrimination claims. Why and how to train managers for this, how employees can be terminated with dignity and respect and within regulations how to understand the regulations which can help prevent allegations of discrimination or wrongful termination, what policies can be created to facilitate it without fear, the documentation requirements etc.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Termination regulations in different states
• Retaliation regulations and the impact in terminations
• Identification of regulatory agencies and the enforcement focus on trending workplace regulations for 2017-2018
• Critical reasons why managers should be trained on the termination best practices to ensure safety from potential violence
• How weapons can impact termination decisions
• How managers can be vicariously liable for actions or non-actions in the workplace and be fined instead of the employer in some termination decisions
• Which regulations are more than likely to target employers on termination decisions
• Learn how employees should be terminated with dignity respect and within regulations
• Learn how to mitigate wrongful termination allegations before they happen
• Create a termination checklist that will reduce your risk when making a decision to terminate
• Gain knowledge of the EEOC regulations and guidelines to prevent allegations of discrimination or wrongful termination
• Create a policy that will assist managers in terminating employees without fear of retribution from the regulatory agencies and employees
• Use training of your managers to reduce your risk since you can be held liable for Managers/Supervisors with bad management and poor judgment in handling employees
• Teach managers how to document performance issues in preparation
• Develop a termination process that will ensure consistency, fairness, objectivity and reduce risks
• Learn what factors can be an obstacle in ensuring a worry-free termination process
• Learn how to handle volatile terminations including employees who own weapons, have history of aggressive behavior, domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, harassment, mental illness and other behavior

Who Will Benefit:

• All Employers
• Business Owners
• Company Leadership
• Small business owners
• Managers/Supervisors
• HR professionals

Margie Pacheco Faulk
Sr HR Consultant, HR Compliance Solutions

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. Margie currently provides compliance services for a large global data protection technologies company with International and multi-state locations with headquarters in Mountain View, California. A former Compliance Officer for a defense contracting technologies firm with a military base in Hawaii, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the following industries: Non-profit, construction, defense contracting and federal government, hospitality, military simulation, engineering, technologies, banking, homebuilding, hospitality, retail, real estate, criminal justice, legal system, commercial property management facilities operations and volunteer management. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie is working currently on International compliance initiatives like International Privacy Issues, Drafting & Implementing International policies, Reviewing and Amending Global Employment Policies, Cross-Border Reductions in Force and Restructurings, Multi-jurisdictional employee investigations, Global Diversity Programs, Expatriate Legal Issues and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).

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