Jodie-Beth Galos

Thursday, March 5, 2009
2 pm - 3:30 pm
Webinar
Workshop Code HR1

(Login information will be emailed to registered participants prior to the day of the webinar.)

Cost per computer/login: $20

As a manager of a nonprofit organization, these days you have a lot of issues on your plate.  The economy is tough and your donors may be cutting back, the grants are not what you had planned and you find that you need to make serious budget cuts.  After all other considerations, it comes down to staffing.  What alternatives do you have to downsizing?  Should you eliminate positions?  How does that translate into people?

This workshop offers you the opportunity to ask these detailed questions within the confidential setting of a webinar.

Topics we will cover are:

• The thinking process needed to successfully deal with staff restructuring
• Legal considerations in conducting a layoff
• Alternative steps to avoid a layoff
• Policy considerations, including severance
• Selecting which positions to cut
• Documenting your decision-making to defend litigation
• Communicating layoffs in the right way and at the right time
• Letting the remaining staff know where they stand

Jodie-Beth Galos, Esq., SPHR is a successful attorney, businesswoman, and one of the nation’s most popular and in-demand speakers on proactive employment law compliance through effective employee relations.  She has full command over complex and intricate laws and provides insight on areas such as harassment prevention, family medical leave and discipline/termination among others.  Before opening her own public speaking and consulting practice, Galos & Associates, LLC, Jodie-Beth worked as associate attorney for Jackson, Lewis; director of employee relations at Saks Fifth Avenue; vice president at United HealthCare; and senior vice president at Smith Barney.  Jodie-Beth authored FIRING BACK: Power Strategies for Cutting The Best Deal When You’re About To Lose Your Job; (John Wiley & Sons).  She is regularly featured on financial and business television and periodicals.