Learn how to properly handle resignations and the aftermath once an employee departs your organization.
This topic will cover the ins and outs of handling departing employees - whether they are leaving upon their own initiative or being asked to go. Learn the potential liability and impact of performance evaluations, disciplinary documentation, and internal investigations. Discover how to avoid the perception of improper motivation when you are forced to terminate an employee. Identify considerations to account for to minimize risk when laying off a group of individuals.
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Agenda
Does the Documentation Support Your Decision?
- Performance Evaluations
- Discipline and Corrective Discussions
- Conducting an Investigation
When You Have to Terminate
- Breaking the Causal Link and Avoiding Perception of Improper Motive
- Reviewing the Employee Termination Checklist
- Do's and Don'ts
Procedures for Layoffs
- Conducting a RIF
- WARN Act Notices
Separation Agreements and Releases
Handling Resignations
- Getting It in Writing
- Exit Interviews
- Dealing With Notice Periods
Managing the Separation
- Final Pay and Vacation
- References
- Security Issues
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on February 4, 2019.
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- CA MCLE 1.5
- Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
- WA CLE 1.5
- This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the "credits" tab when viewing the course.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Rebecca Dobbs Bush, Esq.
SmithAmundsen LLC
- Partner with SmithAmundsen LLC
- Selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars for 2013 - 2017
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of employee benefits and compensation, employment law, government regulation, audit and compliance, staffing agency, independent contractor and contingent workforce, unfair competition counseling and litigation, and wage and hour
- Conducts regular seminars and webinars on numerous employment and labor law topics, including employment contracts, health care reform, employee medical issues, Affordable Care Act, Department of Labor benefits, audit and compliance, and more
- Author of several publications related to the areas of employment law, including SmithAmundsen's Labor & Employment Law Update, a labor and employment advisory blog; Illinois Chamber of Commerce's Chamber Dispatch, an HR advisory blog; and contributing author of the Illinois Employment Law Handbook, Illinois Chamber's most comprehensive publication and reference guide for employers in complying with Illinois and federal labor and employment law
- Member of Illinois State Bar Association, Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, Wisconsin State Bar Association, National Society of Human Resource Management, and American Benefits Council
- J.D. degree, magna cum laude, Northern Illinois University College of Law; B.S. degree, Northern Illinois University
- Can be contacted at 414-847-6176, [email protected] or Twitter® @Dobbslawyer
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