Bad Employee Behavior: An HR Response Guide

Agenda / Content Covered

1. Identifying Bad Employee Behaviors
   2:00 — 2:30, Keely Jac Collins
   1. Preventing Bias From Informing Feedback: Key Steps to Take
   2. Communicating Consequences: Legal Best Practices
   3. Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs): Ensuring Legal Best Practices
   4. Following Up: Why It Matters
   5. Training Supervisors and Managers: What You Need to Know
2. Handling Issues With "Protected" Employees
   2:30 — 3:15, Jennifer Corso
3. Terminating the Employee Relationship: Legal Best Practices
   4:00 — 4:45, Jennifer Corso
   1. How to Conduct the Termination Meeting
   2. Key Steps to Take Before - And After - the Termination Meeting (With Sample Checklist)
   3. Documentation Best Practices
   4. Preventing Wrongful Termination Claims: Dos and Don'ts
   5. Separation, Confidentiality, and Trade Secret Agreements: Recent Developments
   6. What You Need to Know About Severance and Release Packages
4. When the Situation Leads to Litigation: Legal Claims and Defenses
   4:45 — 5:15, Keely Jac Collins

Accreditation Details:

JENNIFER A. CORSO is an attorney at The Law Office of Jennifer A. Corso, LLC. Ms. Corso has more than 20 years of experience representing management in employment and labor law, and is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in labor and employment law. She has written several articles and spoken at numerous seminars and to community business groups on employment law topics. Ms. Corso is licensed to practice before all courts in the state of Ohio and the U.S. Federal Court in the Northern District of Ohio. She earned her B.S. degree from Eastern Michigan University and her J.D. degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

KEELY JAC COLLINS, Esquire, LL.M., is a partner with Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson LLP. As both counselor and advocate for businesses large and small across all sectors, unionized and non-unionized, she takes a practical approach to advising and advocating for businesses nationwide. Both small family businesses and corporate boards of directors have benefited from her attention to the details of law and business, creative solutions, and zealous advocacy for businesses in negotiations before numerous administrative agencies, and in all levels of state and federal court. As an experienced collaborator with large organizations' in-house counsel and general and employment counsel, she is trusted by other attorneys to strengthen the value they offer to the organizations they serve. Ms. Collins holds an LL.M. degree in tax, with a specialization in employee benefits, from Villanova University School of Law, and she earned her J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law.