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Wrongful Terminations Webinar and CD - April 16

Wrongful Terminations: The 7 Rules You Must Follow to Avoid Bias Claims and Stay Out of Court

It’s no fun terminating employees – even when they’ve got it coming. Of course, your definition of “got it coming” and your soon-to-be-gone employee’s definition are probably very different. This difference of opinion is at the heart of countless wrongful termination lawsuits.

Smart, legal terminations require not only well-crafted documentation, but a large dose of people skills as well. And even when you think you’ve got everything covered, it’s important to remember that behaving fairly and behaving legally are not always the same thing.

In order to fully protect yourself and your company, you need a good terminations strategy – a plan of attack, if you will – in place before you even hire that employee.

Join us on April 16 for an in-depth, fully interactive webinar that will cover the 7 can’t-miss terminations rules for staying in compliance and out of court. Our two experts – both experienced employment law attorneys – will answer your questions live via e-mail or over the phone. You’ll want to bring your supervisors along, too.

You and your supervisors will learn:

  • Why a good terminations policy starts with your hiring documents
  • The pitfalls that can arise from a probationary period, and how to avoid them
  • What needs to go in your employee handbook – and what needs to stay out
  • Why you should re-think your progressive discipline and severance policies
  • How to end performance evaluation inflation once and for all
  • The critical logistics – who, when, where – of a successful termination meeting
  • How to avoid whistleblowing claims that can cost your company millions

Plus, you’ll receive a 16-point checklist for identifying high-risk terminations, along with steps for handling them in a way that will minimize your legal exposure.


Wednesday, April 16, 2008
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (MST)
12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (CST)
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. (EST)

About Your Speakers:

Barry D. Kellman, Esq., is with the firm of Kellman Hoffer, LLP, in Manhattan Beach, California. Before becoming a business and employment lawyer, Kellman enjoyed a distinguished career as a chief executive officer in the retail, publishing, and hospitality industries. On a daily basis, he puts that “real world” experience to use on behalf of his clients. His practical advice on recruiting, hiring, compensation, discipline, and termination frequently resolves conflicts before they ripen into litigation.

Kellman is a skilled negotiator with a reputation for getting deals done. He also provides training in all aspects of employment law for business owners, managers, and HR professionals.

Kellman is a member of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA. He received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was also named Distinguished Advocate in the Roscoe Pound Moot Court Tournament.

Brett M. Ehman, Esq., is with the firm of Kellman Hoffer, LLP, in Manhattan Beach, California. Ehman is an accomplished litigator who is licensed to practice in California, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. In addition to his experience with employment law, he possesses a wide-ranging background in general business and insurance litigation. He has successfully resolved hundreds of lawsuits filed in state and federal court.

Ehman graduated with honors from Clemson University. After receiving his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law, Ehman clerked for the Honorable James T. Smith and the Honorable John G. Turnbull II.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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A webinar is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office, using a regular telephone and a computer with an Internet connection. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions—either on the phone or via e-mail.

You will receive access instructions via e-mail several days before the event. You don't need any additional materials before the webinar starts. Your conference materials will be available for you to view, print, and download when you log in to participate in the event.

Why You Can Sign Up to Attend This Event with Confidence

If, for any reason, you are unsatisfied with this audio conference, simply let us know, and we will return your entire registration fee.

  • Wrongful Terminations Webinar and CD - April 16 $269.99 [Add to Cart]
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Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination

Do Your Supervisors Need Better Hiring and Discipline Skills?

Easy Trainer Series in Microsoft PowerPoint gives you customizable, easy-to-use training sessions on key employment topics. This CD-ROM gives you the PowerPoint meeting outlines to train your supervisors to make smarter decisions on Hiring, Discipline & Termination.

You Get:

  • Prewritten Speaker's notes that make you an instant trainer
  • Quizzes that test your supervisors' knowledge before and after training
  • Certificates of completion that can be printed to document training
  • Reproducible handouts and training outlines in PowerPoint

The Easy Trainer:Hiring, Discipline & Termination PowerPoint on CD-ROM covers: Job Descriptions

  • Interviewing
  • Nondiscriminatory Hiring
  • New Employee Orientation
  • Turnover
  • Alternative Work Arrangements
  • Performance Appraisal
  • Challenging Employees
  • Progressive Discipline
  • Measuring Job Performance
  • Grounds for Termination
  • Employee Theft

  • Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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Termination - Step Aside (DVD)

Free Online Preview

A supervisor seizes the opportunity to get rid of a troublemaker. "You've just made my day; you're fired."

Termination procedures are the issue in this situation. At some point, every manager and supervisor has dealt with a troublemaker. But, did the supervisor in the video jump too quickly at the opportunity to terminate his problem employee? Legally can whatever decision viewers think the manager was in his rights to make be substantiated? Trainers can expect this Training Trigger to generate lively discusion of termination and a great deal of learning in the process.

Length: 1:38 min.

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Harassment/Termination Part 1- He Knows the Rules (DVD)

Glimpsed pornography is reported and proves an immediate termination. "He changes his computer screen real quick."

When an employee is reported for viewing pornography at work, his next move is retaliation. How can a manager prove or disprove he was even the guilty party? And if proven, how solid is the manager's case against the employee? This Training Trigger focuses on termination. When shown without comment, it leads to a spirited discussion of the legal risks of leaping to judgment, as well as the legal risks of taking no action when rules are broken.

Length: 59 minutes

  • Harassment/Termination Part 1- He Knows the Rules (DVD) $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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Harassment/Termination Part 2 - The Tip of the Iceberg (DVD)

A manager finds he has fired only one of multiple employees who allegedly broke a cardinal rule. Then, additional rule violations surface. "His lawyers are going to eat us alive."

This Training Trigger starts lively discussions concerning management due diligence before enforcing what seems a cut-and-dried cardinal workplace rule concerning termination. Is the employee being subjected to harassment? Also introduced is an additional complication: discovery of an additional firing offense. Does the first offense get dismissed? Does acting on the second offense risk additional charges of selective enforcement?

**Please note that all purchase and rental orders should be available within a 72 hour period. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Length: 1:29 min.

  • Harassment/Termination Part 2 - The Tip of the Iceberg (DVD) $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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Who's Guilty? - DVD

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The jury renders a stunning decision in this Brunswick, Georgia courtroom.

Arguments before the Honorable James E. Graham, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia and the jury open this training video. Lawyers defend an Age Discrimination charge brought by a terminated Vice President. In cross examination the former Vice President admits a brief affair with his female assistant and asking her to handle offensive e-mail. But his attorney insists Age Discrimination was the reason for termination.

The judge's charge to the jury and narration on the law precede the jury room deliberations. What the jury found most interesting about the defendant’s actions lead to an astonishing jury conclusion. A conclusion that provides valuable insights for managers and supervisors on the potential impact of both Age Discrimination and Sexual Harassment.

Length: 20 minutes

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Legal and Effective Employment Terminations - DVD

Free Online Preview

The statistics are simply staggering: more than eight times out of ten, a judge will rule in favor of an employee suing your organization for wrongful termination. This vital video program will provide your supervisors with a step-by-step approach to protecting your organization from these costly lawsuits. It takes a glimpse at both sides of termination (employer and employee) and will teach your managers how to prepare for and conduct a successful termination meeting.

  • Progressive discipline
  • The termination meeting
  • Conducting exit interviews
  • Avoiding the legal firing line

Added features and benefits of DVD training include:

  • English and Spanish versions – many also include Portuguese
  • A customizable PowerPoint™ presentation
  • Informative training points and bonus material for refresher or training talks
  • Video-enriched training organized by learning objectives that facilitates discussion
  • A printable Leader's Guide
  • Resourceful web links to organizations such as OSHA, FEMA, NSC and the CDC, where viewers can download and print information on regulatory standards

Length: 20 minutes

  • Legal and Effective Employment Terminations - DVD $645.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Legal and Effective Employment Terminations: DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Legal and Effective Employment Terminations: Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder

For over 20 years, human resource managers have relied on this practical state labor laws resource to understand and stay on top of ever-changing employment regulations in their states. No wonder we’ve heard so many nice names for What to Do About Personnel Problems – we’ve even been called the “HR Bible”!

The HR Red Book® delivers clear, straightforward answers to the state labor and HR laws that apply to your organization. It will tell you what all critical human resources regulations mean, what you need to do to comply, and how federal labor laws differ from those in your state – whether you're in California, New York, or North Dakota.

What to Do About Personnel Problems has everything you need for effortless compliance with state and federal employment regulations:

  • Plain-English explanations of all key labor laws - by state and by topic
    Learn how your state laws differ from federal law on over 200 key topics. Available for 49 states plus Washington D.C.
  • Easy-to-use topic lists speed you to fast answers
    Fully indexed, cross-referenced, with full legal citations without having to know which laws apply. Full regulatory citations if you need them.
  • Checklists and HR forms
    You get sample personnel forms, personnel policies, and practical advice to make state compliance and training easier.
  • State and regional salary surveys improve your compensation administration
    Exclusive state-specific salary and benefit surveys help you pay fairly.
  • Free updates and two monthly newsletters
    Includes monthly National News and State News to keep you updated on human resources current issues and all aspects of employment law.
Covers more than 200 topics including:
  • Affirmative Action laws
  • Age discrimination
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Background checks
  • Child labor
  • Civil rights
  • Employee benefits
  • ERISA
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
  • FMLA
  • Hiring
  • Independent contractor agreement
  • Job Descriptions
  • Labor unions
  • Sexual harassment
  • Social Security
  • Workers' compensation
  • Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select your specific state when placing the order online.

    • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] Binder $399.00 [Add to Cart]
    • What to Do about Personnel Problems in [Your State] on CD-ROM $399.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Bad Apples: How to Deal with Difficult Attitudes - Complete Kit

    It's sad but true--one or more bad apples can spoil a bunch of your best performers or undermine your organizational culture. This program helps employees to recognize the characteristics of rotten attitudes and sort out the problems they cause. Scenarios and class exercises introduce a proven, five-step process for dealing with difficult personalities in a diverse workforce.

    Learning Point Highlights:

    • Teaches employees to recognize the impact of negative attitudes
    • Outlines a five-step process for eliminating negativity
    • Demonstrates how to apply the process to difficult vendors and customers

    Complete Training Kit Include: DVD, VHS (23 minutes, Facilitator Guide (multiple agenda options, Reproducible Participant Materials, Reproducible Self-Study Guide, Online Program Resources and Trainer Pack Ten Apple Stress Balls

    • Bad Apples: How to Deal with Difficult Attitudes - Complete Kit $895.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Bad Apples: How to Deal with Difficult Attitudes - Video Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD

    Free Online Preview

    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    Performance appraisals provide an ideal opportunity for collaborative, two-way communication between supervisors and their employees. Yet, they also carry an incredible legal responsibility: the right to a fair appraisal of job performance starts with the actual job description itself. This program discusses protection from legal problems, how to conduct an appraisal, the interview format and goal setting.

    • Documenting evaluations
    • Communicating performance expectations
    • Employee involvement in the evaluation process

    Program Includes: A 30 minute DVD or video, references books and comprehensive leader's guide.

    Online Training Pricing Option:

  • $5.00 per user
  • One year access to this program
  • Minimum order: $745.00
  • Please contact us by email if you have 250 users or more for special pricing options.
  • *Prices subject to change without notice

    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD $745.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals - DVD Rental $295.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Legal and Effective Performance Appraisals (Online Course) $5.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Positive Discipline - DVD

    Release - 2006

    Positive Discipline teaches a simple, yet highly effective, five step process for correcting negative performance.

    • Identify the problem (the gap between the actual & desired behavior)
    • Analyze the problem's severity (determine the impact and consequences of the behavior if not corrected)
    • Discuss the problem (with the employee, gain their agreement on a solution)
    • Document the discussion (including the history of the problem and what was said and agreed upon)
    • Follow-up to monitor results (recognize improvements, or take action if the problem hasn't resolved)

    The program's vignettes are set in different work environments and feature three different performance issues (including the all too familiar example of an employee who is chronically tardy and frequently absent). Accompanying workshop materials include role-play activities, job aids (such as a conversation planner), and more.

    Program Contents: A 24 minute DVD or Video, Leader's Guide, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 copies of the bookPositive Discipline: How to Resolve Performance Problems Quickly...and Permanently, 10 Job-Aid Reference Cards

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    50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization

    This title is divided into five sections. Each section has ten exercises designed to stimulate discussion and promote inquiry regarding business ethics. The activities focus on Leadership, Corporate Citizenship, Salesmanship, Management, and Teamwork. Contributing to this collection is a range of trainers from a wide variety of disciplines and locations, including Europe, India, Canada, and a broad cross-section of the United States.

    Training Objectives

    • Increase ethics awareness among managers, teams and sales personnel
    • Help develop values and guidelines
    • Provide training activities to support organizational ethics policies
    • Provide activities for practice in ethical decision-making

    Training Methods

    • Icebreakers
    • Assessments
    • Role plays
    • Games

    Time Guidelines: 50 activities vary in length from 15 minutes to 60 minutes.

    • 50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    HR Training Presentations (PowerPoint/CD)

    Customer Favorite!

    You can deliver professional, high-impact supervisory training presentations in PowerPoint even if you've never worked in PowerPoint. This fully equipped program gives you everything you need, including handouts, to train on 20 essential topics. Free quarterly updates.

    • Learn how to communicate HR policies and train supervisors in preventing labor law issues with the Americans with Disabilities Act, FMLA, sexual harassment, and affirmative action laws.
    • Forget about the preparation--you can train your supervisors and managers on 20 essential employment law topics with this powerful PowerPoint program.
    • Self-explanatory sessions are fully written, designed, and ready to conduct.
    • Just choose a topic, "click," and train.
    • This comprehensive human resources software breaks down "labor laws land mines" for all your human resource management needs.

    Presentations cover topics like:

    • Change management
    • Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Diversity in the workplace
    • Employee motivation
    • Employee termination/Discipline and progressive discipline
    • Family and Medical Leave Act
    • Performance appraisals
    • Sexual harassment
    • Time management
    • Workplace violence and warning signs
    • HR Training Presentations (PowerPoint/CD) $499.00 [Add to Cart]
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    10-Minute HR Trainer

    Book/Binder

    Here's the system that provides targeted training for your HR supervisors in just 10 minutes per session. You get prewritten trainer outlines, and reproducible handouts on 50 essential HR topics, plus case studies and quizzes. Free quarterly updates.

    • Deliver human resource management training quickly on HR topics like wrongful termination, interview techniques, employee motivation, FMLA, sexual harassment, Americans with Disabilities Act, and diversity in the workplace.
    • The 10-Minute HR Trainer is designed to provide training for your HR supervisors on how to develop safe and legal personnel policies and practices in key HR areas.
    • 50 prewritten human resource management training sessions on "hot topics" including sexual harassment, hiring, leave, and employee discharge.
    • Deliver high-impact HR training with just one resource. This book combines many human resource books into one!

    Train your supervisors on critical topics such as:

    • Legal issues in hiring
    • Wrongful termination
    • Discrimination
    • Sexual harassment
    • FMLA
    • Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Workers' compensation
    • Interview techniques
    • Writing job descriptions
    • Building your listening skills
    • Effective presentation skills
    • Performance goals and criteria
    • Documenting performance
    • Workplace violence and warning signs
    • Discipline policies
    • Employee motivation
    • Delegating
    • Employment at will

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    After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD

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    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    A comprehensive training program for new and seasoned supervisors alike, After All, You're the Supervisor! provides an array of tools for use in your training sessions and as follow-up to help keep your training fresh.

    After All, You're the Supervisor! holds the key to effective supervision, teaching the nine components of supervisory success:

    • Acknowledge Your New Role
    • Plan and Prioritize
    • Be Accessible
    • Encourage Teamwork
    • Communicate Upward and Downward
    • Delegate
    • Discipline Effectively
    • Provide Feedback
    • Model the Way

    Program Includes: A 20 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide, Pre-training Assessment Tool, 10 Participant Workbooks, 10 Participant CD-ROMs with Follow-up Activity, PowerPoint Presentation on CD-ROM and 10 Pocket Reminder Cards.

    Online Training Option

    • Pricing - $9.95 per user
    • Minimum order - $500
    • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
    • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

    Please contact us by email if you have more than 1000 users for special pricing options.

    Note: When you order the online training version of this program, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

    • After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD $995.00 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - Video $995.00 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - Video Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - Online Course $9.95 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
    • After All, You're the Supervisor - Workbook $15.95 [Add to Cart]