Supervisor Training

Vedder Price frequently provides its clients supervisory training in the area of labor and employment law. We tailor our presentations to the client’s needs, including specific problem areas, policies and regulations, and supervisory levels of knowledge and sophistication. Within that framework, we stress the practical, as opposed to theoretical, application of legal guidelines and try to stay as down-to-earth as possible.

Some of the topics we offer are:

• Administering Discipline – How to investigate an incident. Interview techniques. Documentation. Reporting and information-sharing. Determination of penalties. Mitigation factors.
• Impact of Discrimination Laws – Scope of Title VII, ADEA, ADA and related discrimination regulations in hiring, assignment, promotion, layoff, discipline and other day-to-day employment actions. Selected problem areas, such as sexual harassment or reasonable accommodation for disabled employees.
• Administering Drug and Alcohol Policies – Legal and contractual limitations. Testing – reasonable cause and random selection. Objective factors for reasonable cause. Referral to Employee Assistance Programs. "Last chance" agreements.
• Staying Union-Free – The differences in working conditions between a union and nonunion environment. The legal framework for organizing. What supervisors may and may not do (and what they should and should not do). Proactive policies and management habits to prevent desire for unionization. Profiles of types of supervisors the union likes and doesn’t like.
• Violence and Threats in the Workplace – Legal liability and exposure of the employer. Duties to investigate, protect and/or warn. Profiles of potential problem areas.
• Wage and Hour Laws – Overtime requirements. The "8 and 80" hospital option. Measuring "hours worked." Work that is not directed, but that is "suffered and permitted." Determining exemptions. Selected problem areas, such as on-call and standby time, compensatory time and time off for salaried employees.

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