Description

Note: this webinar is the second of a two part series.

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Confidently manage formal disciplinary processes, terminations, and employment relationship challenges

Many employers will need to manage problems like poor performers, misconduct, or medical incapacity at some stage.

Navigating these processes can be complex, but following the correct legal steps is critical to avoiding costly mistakes.

This webinar will equip you with the knowledge and practical strategies to handle disciplinary issues and terminations lawfully and effectively.

Learn how to manage common challenges like poor performance, misconduct, and medical incapacity, while ensuring compliance with employment law.

Discover the correct procedures for issuing warnings, conducting disciplinary processes, and making legally sound termination decisions.

Gain insights into managing employment relationship problems through the complaints and grievance process.

Key Takeaways include:

• Employer’s duties: good faith and the test of justification
• Managing poor performance through formal processes
• Differentiating between poor performance and misconduct
• Investigating misconduct, including external investigations
• Conducting fair disciplinary processes and dismissals
• Managing medical incompatibility and frequent absenteeism
• Giving notice and ending employment
• Resolving employment relationship problems and personal grievances

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This webinar equips you with practical tools to navigate formal employment processes and resolve workplace issues effectively, including:

• Employer obligations when managing employment matters
• Handling formal performance management processes
• Conducting disciplinary investigations and dismissals
• Managing medical incapacity cases
• Giving notice and ending employment correctly
• Resolving employment relationship problems and personal grievances

SUITED TO

This webinar is a practical guide for new employment law practitioners, accountants, lawyers, HR professionals, and managers responsible for leading teams or advising clients on employment matters.

Ideal for those in their first five years of practice or new to employment law, it also serves as a valuable refresher for experienced professionals.

PRESENTER

Julia Shallcrass, Director, KiwiBoss Ltd

Julia is an employment lawyer who specializes in legal education. As director of KiwiBoss, she delivers inhouse training and consulting on people management, employment law compliance, and privacy law to help businesses create better workplaces. Julia regularly delivers training through the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ), and this year will also present public courses and inhouse training directly through KiwiBoss, she has also lectured in human resources for tertiary institutions. Julia is an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.