Legally terminating employees 10 Complex Issues You Must Know

Duration 60 Mins
Level Basic & Intermediate
Webinar ID IQW15C6506

  • Type of Employees being terminated (At-Will, Government, Contract).
  • Review of the Company Termination Policy : Different termination reasons
  • Federal & State Laws Related to Wrongful Termination
  • Discipline process and termination paperwork
  • How to conduct a termination meeting
  • Severance Pay, Waivers of Legal Rights and Unemployment Claims: Key considerations for individual terminations and group layoffs.
  • Post   termination legalities
  • Workplace violence

 

Overview of the webinar

Employers must terminate employees from time to time in order to run their businesses effectively. In today’s litigious world, terminating employees is an emotional and legal minefield for managers and supervisors. Even subtle differences in preparing for and conducting terminations can impact greatly the level of legal risk, and whether an employer faces a claim that may cost six figures (or more) in potential liabilities and litigation costs. This webinar will give you knowledge of employment laws at the federal & state level and practical strategies about the process of termination.

 

Who should attend?

  • In-House Counsel
  • Compliance Officers
  • Human Resources
  • CFOs
  • Executives
  • Business owners
  • Office managers
  • Company presidents
  • General counsel

Why should you attend?

  • Employee Termination Policies
  • Risk Analysis
  • When Is It Illegal to Fire an Employee?
  • Documenting Procedures and guidelines
  • Who should be present during the termination?
  • What you should or shouldn’t say during termination proceedings
  • Informing the Employee
  • Final Paycheck, Severance Pay and Unemployment Claims

Faculty - Mr.Stuart Silverman

Stuart Silverman has been practising law for almost 30 years and is the principal of the Law Offices of Stuart M. Silverman, P.A., located in Boca Raton, Florida. The emphasis of his practice is in the area of labor and employment law and business and commercial litigation. Mr. Silverman has represented both private and public employers, as well as individual employees in a whole host of complex business disputes and employment settings at administrative levels and state and federal trial and appellate courts. His extensive employment litigation experience includes claims under age, race, sex discrimination, wage and hour claims, whistle-blower and retaliation claims, ADA and FMLA claim, public employee's claims, as well as disputes under employment contracts, non-compete agreements, trade secrets disputes and partnership breakups. Mr. Silverman is a frequent speaker on his areas of practice.

Mr. Silverman focuses on helping businesses by taking a proactive approach to their employment and business law needs and provide assistance with compliance on workforce issues, employment handbooks and policies, employee contracts, non-competition and non-solicitation agreement, partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, contracts and buyouts and severance issues and commercial leases. He is also a member of The Workplace Violence Prevention Institute ("WPVI") a group formed to investigate solutions and strategies from a proactive and systemic perspective to minimize the risk of workplace violence, specifically violence caused by employees or former employees. He earned his B.A. degree, with high honors and his J.D. degree from Rutgers University. Mr. Silverman is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

 

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