The Financial Women's Association Of San Francisco
Presents
A Professional Development Series Event

"Top Ten Things Every Manager Must Know About Employment Law"

Featuring
Tracey Merwise

The Financial Women's Association invites you to a Professional Development event about Employment Law. Tracey Merwise, a labor and employment expert presents the Top Ten Things Every Manager Must Know About Employment Law. Tracey discusses the common misconceptions around employment law, such as performance problems, FMLA and termination. She not only shares lessons learned by clients from being guided by these misconceptions, she suggests alternative resolutions, which can help minimize risk.

Top 10 Misconceptions in Employment Law

1. "If I ignore performance problems, they'll resolve themselves"

2. "It's kinder to soften bad news when counseling or terminating someone"

3. "If I think someone is mentally ill/an alcoholic/addicted to drugs, I should talk to them about it and refer them to counseling"

4. "I should enforce attendance, call-In and job abandonment policies objectively, without regard to the reason for the absence"

5. "Once someone's FMLA Leave expires, I can terminate them"

6. "Until someone asks for a reasonable accommodation for a disability, I have no obligations"

7. "If someone has complained to management about me, I need to avoid that person in order to stay out of trouble"

8. "Some people are just difficult to work with. That's just the way they have always been and it's no big deal"

9. "I can give a reference, as long as I do so in confidence"

10. "If I have reason to believe an employee stole/harassed/threatened, I can terminate them".

About the Speaker

Tracey K. Merwise is cochair of Severson & Werson's Labor and Employment Practice Group. She advises and trains employers on all aspects of workforce management and specializes in developing strategic solutions that enable employers to achieve business goals while complying with legal requirements.

Since 1995, Ms. Merwise has focused her practice exclusively on labor and employment litigation, advice and counsel, and compliance. Prior to joining Severson & Werson, Ms. Merwise served as Senior Labor and Employment Counsel at SBC/AT&T and was associated vwith the labor and employment departments of Heller Ehrman and Seyfarth Shaw. She has litigated cases and provided expert legal advice on all aspects of unionized and non-unionized workforce management.

Ms. Merwise received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1992 and holds a B.A. in Government cum laude from Dartmouth College. She is admitted to the Bar in California and Illinois and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), the Labor & Employment Sections of the American and California Bar Associations, and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

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