Employer Resource Institute Audio Conference

Originally presented on January 29, 2008
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 Noon (Pacific Time)

Order Option       Price   CD Recording Only       $199

As an additional benefit, you will receive a no-risk trial subscription to California Employment Law Answers when you register for this audio conference (or purchase a CD recording). You will receive 3 evaluation issues. If you want to continue to receive the newsletter, simply pay the invoice you will receive in the mail. If you decide the newsletter isn't for you, just write cancel on the invoice and return it. You will owe nothing, and all issues you receive are yours to keep. As with all ERI products, your satisfaction is guaranteed 100%. (Offer good for new subscribers only.)

You'll find them in every California workplace:

• Longtime employees who call in sick with a "24-hour bug" every other week — usually on a Friday
• The new administrative assistant who's wonderful with her boss but spreads malicious gossip within her department
• A new sales rep whose work effort seesaws throughout the year, smashing quotas one month but slacking off on customer calls the next monthv
• The supervisor who arrives late once or twice a week but expects a break because she's "management"

Join us on Feb. 6 for this 90—minute audio conference, where our expert — an experienced California employment law attorney — will tell you how to recognize and reform "below standard" employees. You'll learn how to set clearly understood performance standards for your workers before problems set in, as well as how to administer discipline and terminate employees if required without making matters worse. Plus, you'll have the chance to submit questions — via email or live on the phone — for a quick response that may help you immediately in dealing with your own problem employees.

YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES WILL LEARN:

• The first step that's required in your workplace to nip problem employees in the bud
• How you can recognize problem employees — and steer them to higher performance levels — before it's too late for them to remain employed
• What steps you can take to administer progressive discipline with your workers (and how to avoid claims of discrimination or retaliation in the process)
• How to keep problem employees from affecting the morale of their co-workers
• The limits of "at will" employment, especially when dealing with workers who are in protected classes due to their age, disability, gender, national origin, race, or religion
• Which mistakes many employers make when terminating problem employees (and how you can avoid repeating them!)

ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER:

Marie Burke Kenny, Esq, is a partner in the San Diego office of the nationwide law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, LLP. She represents employers in federal and state court litigation involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, unfair competition, and wage and hour claims. The former co-chair of the labor and employment law section of the San Diego County Bar Association, Kenny lectures frequently on a wide variety of employment law issues, and she is an adjunct professor of employment law for San Diego State University. She earned her law degree from the University of San Diego.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hour 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.

How Do Audio Conferences Work?

An audio conference is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office using a regular telephone. 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.

With your registration, you also receive conference materials with additional practical information from California Employer Advisor sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference.

Why You Can Sign Up To Attend This Event with Confidence

As with all California Employer Advisor products, you're completely protected. If for any reason you are unsatisfied with this audio conference, simply let us know and we will return your entire registration fee.