How are good compliance and due diligence programs the safeguard of a successful company? They protect against potential legal liability and financial hardship. They preserve the sanctity of a corporate reputation. There's another upside to this type of programming: done correctly, it can also cut company costs.
Company-wide training: It sounds good on paper and is theoretically designed to improve your staff's knowledge and performance. But long after the hours are completed, the booklets are shelved and the notes are misplaced, how much will you and your colleagues be able to recall from that hour or so of company training? Find some realistic solutions to making that information stick.
Excerpts concerning exit activity, liability and termination benefits.
Form 8-K Rules concerning costs associated with exit or disposal activities, material impairments, departure of directors or certain officers, election of directors, appointment or certain officers, compensatory arrangements of certain officers, regulation FD disclosure and other events.
List of actions to be taken during reduction in force, including justifications, review, outplacement, severance calculations, COBRA calculations, payroll duties, logistics, letters, agreements and releases.
Sample general release agreement between an employee and the company, detailing termination, severance, general release and other terms.
Sample letter from a company which satisfies the requirements of the WARN Act.
Chart comparing differences the Federal WARN Act and California WARN Act in reference to triggering events, part-time employees, recipients of notice, contents of notice, sale of business, buyout provisions and penalties for non-compliance.
Chart providing data on age, gender and race of employees pre-event, impacted and post-event.
Table providing criteria to allow identification of individuals most and less capable of performing work, and who will be RIFed.