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TO DO LIST:

• Discussion: Read the article and describe best practices for HRM specialists when conducting a termination.
• What You Need To Know: Cases and articles this week focus on termination, so that you can apply those concepts to the termination issue in the HR Challenge: Oral Argument assignment.
• Prepare: Read the articles about presenting an oral argument and begin planning your strategy for your oral argument.

Read the article and describe best practices for HRM specialists when conducting a termination.

Legal Background

Read the course file, Legal Background: Termination [PDF], for a basic understanding of the topic for this week. This background information is intended to support your learning like a section of a textbook.

Cases

It is recommended that you identify the main argument and decision of all of these cases by reading the abstract for each case. Then select one case to analyze using the IRAC method.

• E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Company v. Pressman, 679 A.2d 436 (Del. 1996).
  • Focus area: Breaches in good faith.
• Lazar v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 909 P.2d 981 (Cal. 1996).
  • Focus area: Fraud.
• McQuirk v. Donnelley, 189 F.3d 793 (9th Cir. 1999).
  • Focus area: Bad job references.
• Termination

  Each of these articles are less than one page, but they highlight current termination issues in the HRM field that you will reference in your discussion.

• Document exactly why you decided to fire. (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 5(1), 1–2.
• Fired for getting married: Does that count as sex discrimination? (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(2), 4.
• How to legally deal with a post-termination “vent letter.” (2018). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 48(7), 6.
• Pink slips for union backers: A a75k mistake. (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(2), 3.
• You don’t have to give employees a reason for termination. (2017). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 47(5), 4.
• Oral Argument
• Frey, A. L. (n.d.). Preparing and delivering oral argument [PDF].Appellate Defenders, Inc. Available from http://www.adi-sandiego.com/
  • This is a seminal article on preparing for the different parts of an oral argument.
• National Association of College and University Business Officers. (2010, February 24). Making effective oral presentations. Retrieved from https://www.nacubo.org/Conferences-and-Workshops/Speakers-Corner/Making-Effective-Oral-Presentations
  • This is general information about making oral presentations that should help you prepare your scripts.

Defensible Terminations

Read the following article for this discussion:

• Frick, R. E. (2019, August). Decided it’s time to terminate an employee? Now what? Talent Management Excellence Essentials.
• According to Frick (2019) there are some steps that an employer can take to keep terminations both manageable and legally defensible. Describe 2–3 of these steps and suggest strategies the HRM professional might implement within the workplace to make smoother terminations. Provide workplace examples where possible.