HR's Role in Managing the Employment Lifecycle

Today’s decision makers are faced with an ever-evolving series of critical employment-law checkpoints in the workplace: proper hiring, managing problem performance, evaluating and responding to requests for reasonable accommodation of employees’ disabilities and religious beliefs, and conducting lawful terminations. When performed professionally and with awareness of applicable legal regulations and compliance issues, these key business decisions can be made with far less risk. This day-long course guides HR professionals through innovative and effective strategies to achieve your organizational goals while satisfying your legal obligations.

Topics include:

Effective and Lawful Hiring
Prevent problems before they begin, while complying with the law, including:

• Establishing hiring objectives and employee alternatives
• Knowing the difference between employees and independent contractors
• Teaching managers and other interviewers the questions not to ask during an interview
• Analyzing the uses and limits of pre-employment testing
• Working with managers to make the best legal hiring decisions

Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities and Religious Beliefs

• Teaching managers to spot disability issues
• Determining who is disabled and/or entitled to accommodation of a religious belief
• Analyzing requests for accommodations
• Deciding on the limits of undue hardship and specific threat of harm
• Managing requests for accommodations

Lawful Terminations
Learn a systematic approach to making termination decisions, and how to carry out those decisions while minimizing the risk of litigation, including:

• Reviewing the latest legal trends
• Discussing with managers requests to terminate employees
• Working with managers to analyze the risks and benefits of termination
• Reviewing the manager's documentation for the reason for the termination
• Conducting exit interviews
• Preventing workplace violence during the termination process
• Addressing with confidentiality issues involving managers and employees

Avoiding Litigation Landmines
Tying the entire program together, and using an interactive video, study the best management practices to avoid triggering litigation landmines in the evaluation, performance review, corrective action, termination, and reference processes.