Strategies for Minimizing Your Nonprofit’s Employment Law Risks in this New Legal Landscape

Strategies for Minimizing Your Nonprofit’s Employment Law Risks in this New Legal Landscape
Tuesday, March 25 | 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM | Webinar

Presented by: Dana Fruzynski and Diane J. Stoeberl, Attorneys, Cheshire Law Group

Offered in Partnership with: Cheshire Law Group and PAnonprofitlaw.com

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1736

Through the lens of today's quickly evolving legal landscape, this session, led by nonprofit attorneys Dana Fruzynski and DJ Stoeberl of Cheshire Law Group, will cover shortcuts gone wrong and common misunderstandings and missteps that cause legal headaches when handling employment matters. Plus, Dana and DJ will touch on DEI considerations and help you make sense of how to further your organization's DEI goals while staying legally compliant.

We will also look at best practices for establishing healthier processes and procedures – so that when you need to terminate an employee (never an easy task), your organization will be on much better legal footing, and you will find the process much less painful. In addition, we will share strategies to empower your team members to perform at their optimal level!

Your team members are among your most valuable resources. But when an employment relationship sours, employees who are not meeting expectations can cause tension, drama, and stress for you and your other employees. If not managed well, situations can quickly escalate, damage morale, and become expensive and time-consuming legal headaches. These matters take focus and resources away from mission-related work and many of these situations can be avoided by investing in your organization’s processes and in its documentation.  Also, many compliance issues come to light when terminations are needed – and that’s not the optimal time to discover how your organization comes up short on legal compliance.

Join us for tips for improving your systems now, including:

• Common approaches & choices that come back to bite (we’re only human right?!)
• Can we still have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals - and, if so, how do we go about implementing these goals?
• How to tighten up documentation and communications to minimize risk
• Employee handbooks (potential pitfalls)
• Termination Do’s and Don’ts
• Tips for handling Unemployment Compensation claims & other employment law claims

Get your questions ready, send them in, and improve your workplace culture, all while minimizing employment law legal risks!

*NOTE: This is an informational session, and no legal advice will be given to attendees. Attendees seeking legal advice should engage legal counsel. Attendees’ attendance does not establish an attorney-client relationship with the presenters or their law firm, even if attendees ask questions and receive responses from the presenters.

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$35 per person for PANO Members | $78 per person for Not-Yet Members

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Group Screening Cost (4-10 individuals):
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This option makes the most sense when you have 4-10 individuals interested in viewing the webinar. For fewer than 4 attendees, a single login ticket for each person is the most cost-effective option. For more than 10 attendees, please email Christina at christina@pano.org to discuss options.

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Can’t attend? All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar following the live session!

About the Facilitators

This session is presented by Dana Fruzynski and Diane J. Stoeberl, attorneys with Cheshire Law Group, a Pennsylvania law firm exclusively serving the day-to-day and strategic legal needs of nonprofit organizations and the publisher of PAnonprofitlaw.com, a new legal resource offering downloadable legal tools and templates that help support the legal needs of Pennsylvania nonprofit organizations.