Fearless Firing: Constructing a Strong Legal Defense for Your Termination Decisions

Employers often avoid terminations because they are hard to carry out and hard to defend. Wrongful termination cases have grown since the late 2000s, bringing litigation costs, fines, penalties and even criminal sanctions. This 90-minute webinar shows how to build a strong legal defense for termination decisions.

You'll review termination rules in different states, retaliation regulations, which agencies enforce workplace rules and which rules most often target employers. The session explains how managers can be held personally liable, how to document performance issues and how to create a consistent, fair termination process and checklist.

It also covers volatile terminations, including employees with weapons or a history of aggression.

• Terminate employees with dignity and respect, within the regulations
• Reduce wrongful termination and discrimination allegations using EEOC guidelines
• Create a termination checklist and policy that reduce risk
• Train managers to document performance issues before termination
• Develop a consistent, fair and objective termination process
• Address retaliation rules before terminating an employee
• Handle volatile terminations involving weapons, aggression or other risk factors

• Termination regulations in different states
• Retaliation regulations and their impact on terminations
• Regulatory agencies and their enforcement focus
• Why managers need termination training to stay safe from potential violence
• How weapons can affect termination decisions
• How managers can be vicariously liable and fined instead of the employer
• Which regulations are most likely to target employers over terminations
• EEOC definitions of discrimination and protected classes

Employees know more about their workplace rights, the EEOC has raised awareness of how to file charges, whistleblower protections have expanded and DOL websites help employees check whether employers are complying. As a result, termination decisions face more legal risk than ever.

The session suits business owners and leadership, small businesses, employers expanding internationally, managers and supervisors, and compliance and HR professionals.

• All Employers interested in expanding Internationally
• Business Owners
• Company Leadership
• Small business owners
• Managers/Supervisors
• Compliance professionals
• HR professionals

Margie Faulk is a senior level human resources professional with over 15 years of HR management and compliance experience. A current Compliance Advisor for HR Compliance Solutions, LLC, Margie, has worked as an HR Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors.  Margie has provided small to large businesses with risk management strategies that protect companies and reduces potential workplace fines and penalties from violation of employment regulations. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s area of expertise includes Criminal Background Screening Policies and auditing, I-9 document correction and storage compliance, Immigration compliance, employee handbook development, policy development, sexual harassment investigations/certified training, SOX regulations, payroll compliance, compliance consulting, monitoring US-based federal, state and local regulations, employee relations issues, internal investigations, HR management, compliance consulting, internal/external audits, and performance management.
Margie is a speaker and accomplished trainer and has created and presented compliance seminars/webinars for over 16 US and International compliance institutes. Margie has testified as a compliance subject matter expert (SME) for several regulatory agencies and against regulatory agencies, thank goodness not on the same day. Margie offers compliance training to HR professionals, business owners, and leadership to ensure compliance with workplace and regulations. 
Margie’s unique training philosophy includes providing free customized tools for all attendees. These tools are customized and have been proven to be part an effective risk management strategy. Some of the customized tools include the I-9 Self Audit. Correction and Storage program, Ban the Box Decision Matrix Policy that Employers can provide in a dispute for allegations, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Compliance Guide, Drug-Free Workplace Volatile Termination E-Book and other compliance program tools when attendees register and attend Margie’s trainings.
Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).