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Managing Within the Law: Employment Law for Managers
Our Managing Within the Law courses provide employment law training for managers and executives both in-person and online. Similarly, these classes are appropriate for new managers and as refresher courses. Particular topics covered include documentation, performance management, leaves of absence, and understanding harassment. Good managers determine if employees stay or go, consequently our Managing Within the Law: Employment Law for Managers training teaches your managers to build consistency across managers’ teams, develop and practice effective communication, thereby creating a respect filled workplace for all. Training managers in employment law leads to lower employee turnover and therefore, higher customer satisfaction, which consequently drives profits. Managing Within the Law is an essential skills program and a key component of every new manager’s training curriculum. It is also an engaging refresher for your experienced managers.
What Participants Will Learn:
How Company Values Drive Decisions
The Four Key Management Concepts
- Be consistent
- Have a legitimate business reason for decisions
- Document: importance, electronic files, how to write it, what to share and when
- Call the experts: your management, HR and Legal team
Effective Performance Management
- Treat employees fairly: good reason, progressive discipline, performance appraisals
- Setting expectations and coaching
- Keep your promises: policies, handbooks, oral promises
- Respect whistle-blowing
Preventing Discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Stereotyping, glass ceilings, reasonable accommodation
- Hiring: behavior-based interviewing, illegal questions, references policy
Leading with Respect
- The causes of harassment, discrimination, retaliation and workplace
- Why most harassment and disrespect are unintentional
- The manager’s duty to prevent and effectively respond to harassment and abusive conduct claims
- How to address unconscious bias and microaggressions
- What to do as a bystander to harassment and discrimination
Format:
Our employment law for managers training is updated annually and includes your organization’s policies and procedures, small group discussions, video vignettes, skill building exercises, extensive Q &A and case studies based on actual legal cases. Our instructors are seasoned attorneys and highly engaging facilitators who use personal stories and appropriate humor to make these topics come alive! This classroom training is designed for a national audience.
Length:
One day
Executive Sessions for your CEO, President, and Vice Presidents
Managing Within the Law: Employment Law for Managers training answers common questions like these and more:
- Is touching a women’s hair sexual harassment?
- Can my manager tell everyone else my date of birth?
- Can I be written up for being late while on FMLA?
Fair Measures offers this management law training in a half-day format and as a webinar.