Event Details

August Summer Program

RISKY BUSINESS - INVESTIGATING EMPLOYMENT MATTERS

Date: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Time: 7:30am – 7:45am Networking & Breakfast
         7:45am – 8:00am Chapter Updates & Announcements
         8:00am – 12:00pm Speaker
Location: Aurora Medical Center – Draper Hall - Summit, WI
              36500 Aurora Drive
              Summit, WI 53066
Speaker: Bob Gregg, Boardman & Clark Law Firm

About the Presentation
The standard discipline process requires pre-disciplinary investigation of performance, harassment, work rule or other job violations. Client, customer or citizen complaints require investigation. Employees who are disciplined have rights and often appeal or sue over the results of improper investigation. How the investigation was performed often becomes the object of legal challenge and personal liability for the investigator.
This program covers the legal and practical elements for a fair, valid investigation of discipline, complaints, or other employment matters. It covers practical techniques of planning, fact finding, interviewing witnesses, and documenting. Emphasis is given to due process, confidentiality, privacy, defamation and the do’s and dont’s to prevent personal liability for just doing your job. The program includes:

• Avoiding personal liability for "investigative malpractice"
• Policies which can either hamper or foster investigations
• Intake and assessment of complaints
• Planning the investigation
• Rights of the "accused"
• Interviewing witnesses
• Practical pointers and some simple do’s and don’ts which can make the difference between an effective process or legal liability
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Integrity of the investigator's notes
• Decision making

Every supervisor should know this information. Human Resources professionals should bring their company’s managers.

About the Presenter
Bob Gregg, a partner at the Boardman & Clark Law Firm in Madison, Wisconsin, has been involved in employment relations for more than 30 years. He also litigates employment cases, representing employers in employment contracts, discrimination cases, FLSA, FMLA and all other areas of employment law. His main emphasis is helping employers achieve enhanced productivity, creating positive work environments, and resolving employment problems before they generate lawsuits. He has designed the workplace policies of numerous employers. Bob has conducted over 3,000 seminars throughout the United States and authored numerous articles on practical  employment issues. Bob is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, the National Speakers Association, is a National Faculty Member of the American Association for Affirmative Action and serves on the Board of Directors for the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute Foundation. Bob's practice has a special focus in documentation issues. He served as the Chief Investigator for the Wisconsin Personnel Commission. He is retained to conduct high level, sensitive investigations for both public and private sector organizations. Bob trains HR staff, security personnel and civil investigators in the concepts of properly investigating employment issues.
Using humor and anecdotes drawn from personal experience, he simplifies and illustrates even the most complex employment issues in layman’s terms. His seminars bring a positive, practical, “handson” approach to help employers succeed, identify problems, avoid litigation, and implement good employment practices.

Member Cost: $45 per person
Non-Member Cost: $55 per person
Student Cost: $15 per person
Special Discount: $200 for a group of 5 people

Your registration fee includes beverages, a light snack and handouts.

Please register online by 12:00pm on Monday, August 10th
Summer Program Registration

This program has been submitted for approval for general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program may meet the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

For additional information about this event, the venue or if you experience of technical issues involving, registration, please contact Mack Lane, JCHRMA’s Programming Chair
Email: MackLane20@gmail.com Cell Phone: (715) 490-6225.