Legally Terminating Employees: Complex Issues Which You Must Know

Why Should You Attend:

Terminations - whether they involve a single employee or a large-scale layoff - are never easy. Although it is one of the most displeasing sides of business management and ownership, it is sometimes absolutely necessary. Along with the emotional stress they cause, terminations can also pose enormous legal risks. Whether its insubordination, poor performance, or incompatibility you need to ensure that you and your managers know how to handle this task effectively, legally and safely.

Learning Objectives:

• 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
• How to utilize the termination procedure to reduce the risk of lawsuits and the risk of workplace violence

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• 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

Who Will Benefit:

• Business Owners/Operators
• HR/Personnel Managers
• Department or Unit Managers
• Hiring Managers
• Any Manager or Employee with the responsibility of terminating other employees
• Managers, Supervisors, Team leaders

Stuart Silverman
Owner, Stuart M Silverman P A

Stuart Silverman has been practicing 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 employers and employees in complex business disputes and employment settings at administrative levels, and in state and federal trial and appellate courts. His extensive employment litigation experience includes claims under age, race, sex discrimination, wage and hour claims, whistleblower and retaliation claims, ADA and FMLA claims, 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. He focuses on helping businesses with employment compliance issues by taking a proactive approach to their employment and business law needs, and provides assistance with compliance on workforce issues, employment handbooks and policies, employee contracts, non-competition, and non-solicitation agreement, partnership agreements.

Mr. Silverman 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.

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