Date: May 16, 2014 – 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Where: The Cunningham Center at Columbus State

Who Should Attend? Anyone in HR, Operations, Risk Management, and Small Business Operators.

Description

A few disgruntled employees can drag down the morale of your entire workforce. How can your management team properly demand productivity from adversarial employees, yet avoid exposure to wrongful termination and retaliation claims, government charges, and costly lawsuits? Are these problem employees off limits to future discipline? This session will highlight which management tactics work, and which should be avoided!

Learning Objectives

• Best Practices in HR: learning how to recognize when an employee can be rehabilitated, or when he should be terminated
• Conflict Management: learning how to protect your managers and employees from the practical and legal challenges posed by troublemakers
• Compliance: learning how to aggressively manage employees who have lodged complaints or filed charges of discrimination, without incurring further liability for retaliation

Presenters:  Gordon Blair & Greg Hare, Ogletree Deakins Law Firm