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Employment Law After Hours VIDEO - Managing Difficult Employees: Performance Improvement Plans

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Performance Improvement Plans are some of the best ways to improve employee performance when they are not meeting work expectations or violating company policies and employer rules.

Yet, many employers utilize performance improvement plans incorrectly. Therefore, in this in-depth episode of Employment Law After Hours, we explore the best practices for performance improvement plans, as well as providing the supervisor/manager conversation demonstrations, and an ultimate demonstration of providing a performance improvement plan to an employee.

  • Do you know what goes in a performance improvement plan?
  • How do you manage a difficult employee?
  • When do you use a performance improvement plan?
  • How do you write a performance improvement plan?
  • How do you improve employee performance?
  • How do you correct an employee's violation of work rules and requirements?
  • How do you punish an employee?
  • How do you reprimand an employee?
  • How do you draft a performance improvement plan?
  • How do you give a performance improvement plan? 

Answers to these issues and many others are covered in this week's episode of Employment Law After Hours, covering the issues keeping HR professionals and employers up at night. For more information, please contact Bryan Meek at bmeek@bmdllc.com.


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BMD Partner and Co-Chair of the Employment & Labor Law Group, Bryan Meek, presented this four-part webinar series on trending topics in employment law.

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Some may take the position that the rest of the country already returned to a new “normal” following the COVID-19 pandemic.  But healthcare providers continue to implement COVID protocols and navigate the ever-changing healthcare regulations at both the federal and state levels.  It is important for healthcare providers to take time for a “Healthcare Check-Up” with the start of 2023 and the ending of the Public Health Emergency (“PHE”).

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Pregnant Employee Protections - New Requirements for Employers

New protections are coming to the workplace for pregnant employees in 2023! In the most sweeping changes since the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, two new federal laws were recently passed: (1) the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act (otherwise known as the Pump Act), and (2) the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The requirements of these statutes will require employers with more than 15 employees to implement new policies for their handbooks.