Public Employee Discipline: Doing It Right
"I've been doing employee discipline for 20 years but still learned new things. It was great!"
"I'm new to HR and the content presented was on point and the feedback from the group was invaluable."
Discipline is a difficult but essential part of supervising and managing employees. This online CALPELRALearn program provides the tools you need to make disciplinary decisions and implement effective discipline consistent with California's due process and other protections. You’ll learn:
- How to make sure discipline sticks; avoid losing your agency's case at arbitration or other appeal hearing.
- How to decide on the appropriate level of discipline; what factors should you consider?
- What is "just cause" for discipline? When is progressive discipline required?
- What is due process?
- Which employees are entitled to due process?
- Do at-will and probationary employees have any protections?
- Who should conduct the Skelly hearing, and how should it be conducted?
- What is the union's role in the disciplinary process?
- Determining what information the union and employee are entitled to receive.
- Strategies for effectively handling interfering union representatives.
- Anticipating most common defenses (disparate treatment, lack of training, anti-union bias, insufficiency of investigation, etc.).
The program includes practical advice and best practices for:
- Setting up for success from the earliest stages of discipline, including:
- Identifying and honestly assessing case weaknesses.
- Drafting effective disciplinary notices.
- Avoiding and, if necessary, recovering from procedural errors.
- Developing a winning strategy for prevailing at arbitration or hearing.
- Effectively investigating allegations of misconduct.
- Properly documenting performance problems and misconduct.
- Understanding and navigating your agency's disciplinary procedures.
Training Certification And Continuing Education Credits
- CALPELRA certification.
- 7.5 hours of MCLE credit (general) are offered for this Learn program.
- 7.5 SHRM PDC's are offered for this Learn program. (CALPELRA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits.)
- 7.5 HRCI credit hours are offered for this Learn program. (CALPELRA is an approved HRCI provider; CALPELRA's programs have met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit. Use of HRCI's name/seal does not constitute HRCI's endorsement of the program quality.)