E-LearningLegal

Insights on Managing Termination of Employment

Duration
60 min
CPD
1.0 hour
Format
E-Learning
Insights on Managing Termination of Employment

Overview

How to handle termination of employment with greater skill and confidence, avoid litigation and save on legal costs.

This seminar will explore the critical issues employers should consider before terminating employment, including strategies for effectively handling toxic or underperforming employees, implementing fuss free redundancies and managing the people issues associated with outsourcing.

Content will include:

  • Doing your homework before moving on a termination
  • The role of workplace policies, the employment contract and industrial instruments
  • How to create bulletproof documentation
  • Practical strategies to minimise unfair dismissal, general protections, breach of contract and discrimination risks
  • When to call your lawyer
  • Learnings from recent cases and real-life examples

Learning Outcomes:

  • Determine when termination is appropriate and defensible (and when it isn’t)
  • Understand the options available to employers
  • When, how and what to document
  • Minimise the inherent risks associated with termination of employment

Suited to:

HR Managers, in-house lawyers, accountants and employers (of any size).

This On Demand includes: 

  • a recording of the webinar Event which can be viewed multiple times
  • a PDF of the presenter’s PowerPoint
  • a verbatim Transcript
  • any supporting documentation
  • a CPD Certificate after successful completion of the Knowledge Quiz

Course syllabus

3 lessons

  1. Video – Insights on Managing Termination of EmploymentVideo
  2. FeedbackSurvey
  3. Knowledge QuizTest

Your presenter

Erin WilsonSource Legal

, Director (Employment Law), Source Legal.

Erin previously worked at EY in an in-house senior legal role, and trained and worked at leading Sydney law firms.  She graduated with a Masters of Labour Law and Relations from the University of Sydney and finished first in her graduating year. 

Erin has a diverse practice and works with her clients on their most sensitive and significant workplace issues.  These include major workplace change and transformation projects, award interpretation, senior executive appointments and separations, complex workplace investigations, discrimination and sexual harassment and termination of employment.  She also has extensive experience handling major employment claims and disputes.