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Maine Employment Law: Hiring, Firing, and Disciplining Employees

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Credit Status Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
HRCI Approved 6 Total
CPE for Accountants/NASBA Approved 7 Total
SHRM CP/SCP Approved 6 Total
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6 hours
Elizabeth Johnston
John Chapman
Peter Black
With Elizabeth T. Johnston from Verrill Dana LLP + 2 others

Fri, Oct 09, 00:00 AM – 00:00 PM

Product ID 102341

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Overview

Your Guide to Hiring and Terminating Employees

What are the dos and don'ts of using social media to screen job applicants? Do you know how to craft an effective investigative report following a workplace investigation? When should you address a decline in work performance concerning an employee on intermittent leave? In this comprehensive online seminar, our experienced faculty provide you with essential guidelines for hiring, onboarding, disciplining, and terminating workers. Whether you're new to employment law, or you're just hoping to get a refresher, this course is for you - register today!

  • Adopt best practices for hiring and onboarding new employees.
  • Uncover practical guidance for preventing hiring discrimination issues.
  • Formulate basic strategies for managing remote workers.
  • Come away with essential tools for conducting reviews.
  • Tackle termination meetings and exit interviews with confidence.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Hiring New Employees: Complying With Federal and State Laws
  2. Hiring Discrimination Issues - How to Prevent and Handle Them
  3. Hiring, Onboarding, and Managing Remote Workers: How to Do It Right
  4. Legal Essentials of Disciplining Employees
  5. Conducting Workplace Investigations: Legal Best Practices
  6. Firing Employees: Legal Essentials
  7. Guidelines for Terminating Employees on Leave
  8. Ethical Issues in Employment Law

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Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
HRCI Approved 6 Total
CPE for Accountants/NASBA Approved 7 Total
SHRM CP/SCP Approved 6 Total
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  1. Hiring New Employees: Complying With Federal and State Laws

    1. Guidelines for Using Social Media to Screen Applicants
    2. Interviews: Avoiding Common Perils
    3. Training Supervisors and Managers on Hiring Practices: Why It Matters
    4. Offer Letters and Other Essential At-Hire Documents
    5. Non-Compete Agreements - Current Developments
    6. Understanding State Working Age Requirements

  2. Hiring Discrimination Issues - How to Prevent and Handle Them

    1. Case Law and Legislative Updates
    2. Risks in Diversity Initiatives
    3. Pay Equity and Salary Transparency - The Latest Developments
    4. Use of AI in Hiring
    5. Background Checks: What You Must Know
    6. Uniform Discipline: Best Practices to Avoid Discrimination Claims

  3. Hiring, Onboarding, and Managing Remote Workers: How to Do It Right

    1. Best Practices in Navigating Varying State Employment Laws
    2. Virtual Interviews and Telework: Impact on the Hiring and Onboarding Process
    3. Tips for Monitoring Work Performance
    4. Ensuring Workers Are Abiding by Company Policies: When and How
    5. Dos and Don'ts of Increasing Employee Retention
    6. Multi-Jurisdictional Work: Recent Case Law

  4. Legal Essentials of Disciplining Employees

    1. Performance Reviews, Warnings, and Suspensions Made Simple
    2. Practical Guidance for Crafting Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
    3. Best Practices for Maintaining Disciplinary Policies and Records
    4. Employees With Mental Health Conditions: Handling Performance Issues
    5. Eliminating Bias From the Disciplinary Process
    6. Sloppy Disciplinary Procedures: Top Mistakes to Avoid

  5. Conducting Workplace Investigations: Legal Best Practices

    1. Forming an Investigation Plan
    2. General Rules on Who Should Conduct the Investigation
    3. Techniques for Determining Witness Credibility
    4. Investigation Interviews: Top Legal Considerations
    5. Creating the Investigative Report: Legal Best Practices
    6. Following Up

  6. Firing Employees: Legal Essentials

    1. Conducting Termination Meetings and Exit Interviews: Tips and Traps
    2. State Requirements for Severance Packages and Separation Agreements
    3. State Whistleblower Laws
    4. Disciplining and Terminating Employees for Marijuana Use: Top Risks
    5. Preventing Wrongful Termination Claims
    6. Pay Reductions, Layoffs, and RIFs: Essential Guidelines

  7. Guidelines for Terminating Employees on Leave

    1. The Interactions Between the FMLA, ADA, and State Leave and Workers' Compensation Laws
    2. When a Worker's Performance Suffers While on Intermittent Leave
    3. Dos and Don'ts of Defensive Documentation
    4. Timing Considerations
    5. Avoiding Retaliation Claims
    6. Review of Recent Case Law

  8. Ethical Issues in Employment Law

    1. Rules of Professional Conduct
    2. Conflicts of Interest
    3. Attorneys' Fees
    4. Confidentiality

Who Should Attend

This basic level online seminar on employee hiring and firing is of benefit to:

  • Attorneys
  • Human Resource Professionals
  • Corporate Executives
  • Accountants
  • Payroll Professionals
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Elizabeth T Johnston
Elizabeth T.
Johnston
Verrill Dana LLP
John W Chapman
John W.
Chapman
Kelly & Chapman
Peter S Black
Peter S.
Black
McCoy Leavitt Laskey LLC
Speaker bio
Elizabeth T Johnston

Elizabeth T. Johnston

Verrill Dana LLP
Elizabeth Johnston

is an attorney in the law firm of Verrill Dana LLP. She handles a variety of employment matters including working with businesses of all sizes to ensure that their policies are in compliance with the latest legal updates and are working effectively for the organization in practice. Ms. Johnston also advocates for clients facing claims before state and federal courts, Maine Human Rights Commission, and Maine Workers' Compensation Board. She is a regular contributor to Verrill's Taking Care of HR Business blog. Ms. Johnston earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Maine and her J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law. She is a member of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, Maine State Bar Association and American Bar Association.

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John W Chapman

John W. Chapman

Kelly & Chapman
John Chapman

has practiced law in Maine for over 40 years. He represents PORAC (U.S. Border Patrol), Fraternal Order of Police, Androscoggin County Employee Association, Professional Fire Fighters of Maine and National Correctional Employees Union. Mr. Chapman has co-authored legislation in the area of mental health and firearms with the Governor's Office and the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine. He teaches use of deadly and nondeadly force at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy to cadets, law enforcement firearms instructors and judicial marshals. Mr. Chapman developed and periodically updates the protocol for representation of law enforcement officers involved in critical incidents. He is the counselor at arms for the Gun Owners of Maine, and is an avid shooter, archer and reloader. Mr. Chapman is admitted to practice in the Maine courts, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, First Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

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Peter S Black

Peter S. Black

McCoy Leavitt Laskey LLC
Peter Black

is a partner in McCoy Leavitt Laskey LLC's Maine office, focusing on fire and explosion cases, as well as other litigation and claims resolution. He joined the firm in 2023 after spending almost nine years as vice president and general counsel for a regional energy company headquartered in New England. In that role, Mr. Black was responsible for legal, risk, insurance, safety and compliance of retail, wholesale and terminal operations throughout the company's five state footprint. He oversaw defense of claims involving propane incidents and managed outside counsel. Mr. Black also has extensive trial and litigation experience prior to going in-house. He was an assistant attorney general prosecuting white collar cases across the state of Maine for five years. Prior to that, Mr. Black was a partner at a large commercial law firm in Portland specializing in commercial litigation. He has first or second chaired dozens of criminal and civil jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the country. Additionally, Mr. Black is a Colonel in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG), serving as a part-time reservist. He is the state of Maine's senior military attorney. Mr. Black's military experience as taken him to Montenegro, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, where he has handled legal matters involving military and international law, in addition to overseeing legal work for operations throughout the United States. He graduated from the University of Georgia school of Law, where he served on the Law Review for two years, publishing his own article and editing the articles of law professors selected for publication. After law school, Mr. Black clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Harold L. Murphy in the Northern District of Georgia.

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