90% of Life is Showing Up: Legally and Effectively Addressing Employee Absenteeism

Learning Objectives:

• Keys to delivering proactive and hard-hitting messages when dealing with chronic abusers and rule breakers.
• Legal do's and don'ts of effective policies that reduce absenteeism and provide appropriate disciplinary sanctions.
• New approaches to stemming problem absenteeism, including supervisory, values and policy changes.

Session Description:

No-show employees cause resentment for the rest of the team. Besides creating morale issues, it racks up millions of dollars each year in lost productivity. What innovative, legally-sound techniques can you use to confront legitimate and chronic culpable absenteeism, eliminate abuse and save money? 90% of Life/Absenteeism addresses avoiding legal landmines -- federal and state laws critical to absenteeism issues. The focus is confronting problem employees and nipping excuses in the bud (including FMLA intermittent leave abuses). The presentation also looks at reframing thinking to create more effective policies and practices - reconfiguring work where appropriate and reducing abuse in order to combat negative morale before it poisons your organization. This practical, fast-paced program provides the very latest information on creative techniques to reduce employee absenteeism, foster managerial and employee accountability about attendance and improve your organization's bottom line.

Biography:

Jodie-Beth Galos, Esq., SPHR is a successful attorney, businesswoman, and an in-demand speaker on proactive employee relations. Her participants extol her full command over intricate laws and complex management issues. Jodie-Beth can make unquestionably dry topics, such as delivering performance feedback, harassment prevention, family medical leave, behavior-based interviewing, discipline/termination -- among others, practical and compelling. In addition to her speaking and consulting practice, she serves, on a part-time basis, as the Chief Operating Officer of The Citadel Mentor Association. Before opening her own public speaking and consulting practice, Galos & Associates, LLC, Jodie-Beth worked in large organizations: Associate Attorney at Jackson, Lewis; Director of Employee Relations at Saks Fifth Avenue; Vice President at United HealthCare; and Senior Vice President at Smith Barney -- guiding top management in building a pipeline of employee talent. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and the Boston University School of Law.