Firing without Fear: Top Strategies to Protect Employers

Presented by Dick Wessels, Nancy Joerg, Joe Laverty, and Tony Caruso

Join highly experienced Wessels Sherman employment lawyers Dick Wessels, Nancy Joerg, Joe Laverty and Tony Caruso for a special in-person breakfast seminar. Many exciting raffle prizes too!

Employers, accountants and members of company management will gain valuable information and strategies on how to fire employees and dramatically minimize the risk (and expense) of a lawsuit.

Some of the areas the speakers will cover include:

Employment at will in Illinois. How you fire, what specific words you say when you fire, how much latitude employers have, the strategy of saying the decision is final. What should (and should not) occur in the termination meeting.
How to strategically terminate if the employee is high risk in any way due to age, sickness, workers’ comp pregnancy, out of FMLA, whistleblower, race, disability, etc.
Use of documentation and discipline – what and what not to write and do!
When is the use of release and settlement agreements appropriate? What should you do (and not do) in a release. Tricky situations such as group terminations and employees over the age of 40. Can you ensure that the employee won’t file for unemployment? How do you fire and also win at misconduct hearings.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Registration and breakfast 8:30-9:00 am.
Program: 9:00-11:30 am

Cost: only $75, which includes breakfast.

2075 Foxfield Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174 (lower level conference room in building behind Wessels Sherman St. Charles office)

Who should attend?

Business owners, executives, human resource professionals, attorneys, accountants, managers, and supervisors from every industry!

Continuing Education

Attention HR Professionals:

This program has been approved for 2.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward a PHR™, PHR�, PHRca�, SPHR�, GPHR�, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute� (HRCI�). The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s� (HRCI�) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval

This program is valid for 2.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP^SM or SHRM-SCP^SM. Wessels Sherman is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP^SM or SHRM-SCP^SM.

Attention Accountants:

2.5 hours of CPE credit available.

Wessels Sherman is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.