Management Training

Fair, Square, and Legal: A Manager's Guide to Safe Hiring, Managing, and Firing Practices

Duration: 2 Days (10 am to 5 pm with one hour lunch break)

Cost: $ 1399 + GST

Course Outline

Do you know what to do to protect your business, your employees, and yourself from legal liability? Can you defend your actions-or those of your employees-if you do end up in court?

Staying out of trouble is a matter of being prepared. And that's exactly what you'll learn in Fair, Square, and Legal-clear, unambiguous, step-by-step methods of documentation, compliance, and prevention for every business-related action that can raise legal liability.

Written by a manager for managers, the course translates complex legal concepts and precedents into a set of easy-to learn guidelines for managing people. It gives you a systematic knowledge of the ways the laws governing equal opportunity and employee rights protect not only your employees, but you, the manager, as well. You'll see that understanding and adhering to employment law is simply good business.

You'll learn how to:

• Identify potential employment law violations before they happen
• Investigate a harassment complaint
• Write safe job advertisements and job descriptions
• Conduct safe hiring interviews and performance appraisals
• Determine what constitutes "reasonable accommodation" or an employee with a disability
• Recognize a "hostile work environment"
• Develop an effective sexual harassment policy
• Take court-approved progressive disciplinary action prior to dismissing an employee
• Take nine court-recognized steps to manage a force reduction

Course Objective:

Understand key, aspects of employment law to manage safely and avoid legal liability.

About This Course

Fair Square, and Legal: A Manager's Guide to Safe Hiring, Managing, and Firing Practices has been developed for managers who need to make safe hiring, managing, and firing decisions, often without the benefit of specific policies or procedures to guide their actions. This course features a unique approach that focuses on management, rather than legal, issues. This perspective gives you the information to make decisions that not only meet the requirements of the law but also conform with the best practices of effective management. In this course, you will learn what the laws that govern hiring, managing, and firing decisions mean to you as a working manager.