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Terminating Employees Safely 1.5 Credits

Feb 09, 2024, 11:30 AM ET

Terminating Employees Safely 1.5 Credits

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  • Subject Area

    Personnel/Human Resources

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Feb 09, 2024, 11:30 AM ET

Learning Objective

  • To know how to document poor performance and conduct disciplinary discussions.
  • To analyze how to terminate an employee in a way to minimize risks the employee goes to a governmental agency to get back at the employer.
  • To identify the steps to follow while having a termination discussion with an employee.
  • To discuss the things that need to be avoided while terminating an employee.

Course Overview

Terminating any employee is a difficult challenge and doing it wrong can result in discrimination charges, wage and hour complaints, and wrongful discharge lawsuits.

Planning and conducting termination discussions will go a long way to protect your organization from being victimized by a complaint from a terminated employee. That’s not all. In today’s era, organizations must also safeguard computer systems from being sabotaged and employees from potential violence. Therefore, termination must be handled well.

In this online CPE PDC/RCH webinar, attendees will learn all of the tools they need to ensure terminations are handled correctly to greatly reduce the potential for complaints being filed with outside agencies or lawsuits.

Key topics covered in this CPE course:

  • The importance of work standards and the concept of fairness
  • Ensuring that the termination is not a "surprise"
  • Discussion on “Employment at Will”
  • Events Leading to Termination
  • Steps to take when considering terminating an employee
  • Planning for the termination discussion
  • Holding the termination discussion
  • Communications with co-workers post-termination
  • The importance of documentation

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Additional Information

Credits

1.5

Course Level

Basic

Instructional Method

QAS Self Study
Group Internet Based

Pre-requisites

None

Advance Preparation

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About Instructor

Bob McKenzie
Bob McKenzie

President, McKenzieHR

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Bob McKenzie has over 40 years of human resources management experience. His background includes a wide range of hands-on HR practices including in all aspects of Human Resources. And is a variety of industries in with private sector, public sector and nonprofit employers.

Bob has been cited in a number of Human Resources trade publications. Among them are HR.com, HR Magazine, HR Florida Review, Vault.com, BNA and the Institute of Management and Administration and the Business Journals. He has been a speaker at a number of conferences as well as audio and web-based seminars. 

Bob is a graduate of Rider University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce Degree and double majored in Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior and lives in Brunswick, GA.

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Self Study QAS (Quality Assurance Service) is a NASBA and other regulatory bodies approved program designed for Professionals to complete their Continuing Professional Education credits through self-paced, interactive courses that meet the highest standards of quality and compliance. We are approved by NASBA, IRS, CFP Board, HRCI, SHRM, Payroll Org, FP Canada, and 25+ other regulatory bodies.

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To earn CPE credits, you must complete the self-study course, pass the required assessments, and submit the necessary documentation. Credits are awarded based on the completion of course hours and successfully passing the assessments.

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Evan Goley, SHRM - CP

It was a lengthy session, but very informative. As an HR professional, it gave me a few extra nuggets of information to consider as I think about terminating employees.

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Evan Goley, SHRM - CP

It was a lengthy session, but very informative. As an HR professional, it gave me a few extra nuggets of information to consider as I think about terminating employees.

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