The Importance of Documentation For Managers

Overview

It is Important for Managers and Supervisors to understand the Importance of Documentation regarded their represented employees. It is critical for them to understand the Impact and depth that Documentation has on multiple areas of the workplace and operation of the business.

One Key area of impact is the Just Cause Standard and how the failure to properly Document will result in the costly loss of Grievances and Arbitration cases.

How Documentation impacts an Employees's Right of Due Process in the day to day operation of your business.
Failure to properly Document impacts the Disciplinary process clearly in the area of consistent treatment of employees. (Example:
Billy, our best Employee punched his boss normally that's Termination but we want to issue a Written warning!)

Documentation is impacted by your Supervisors and Managers Past Practice in the Workplace. (Example: Smoking used to be a Verbal Discussion to File, yesterday we Suspended two employees for Smoking in non designated areas!)

This Workshop will address those main areas and much more to ensure that all members of the management team understand the proper methods, the reasoning for Documentation and the results that can be achieved in the Workplace as well as the costly errors that can be avoided.

Why should you Attend

A Manager, Supervisor, or Director, or any member of the Management team with responsibility of managing or interacting with union represented employees will benefit from this workshop.

The workshop covers the following areas:

• History Of Documentation
• Formats of Documentation
• How Documentation impacts the Just Cause Standard
• Alternative methods and legal challenges  to Documentation
• Documentation and the Employee's Right to Due Process
• The Importance of Consistent treatment and Documentation
• Past Practices impact Documentation

Areas Covered in the Session

• We will discuss the" Five W's of Documentation. WHO WE DOCUMENT, WHAT WE DOCUMENT, WHEN WE DOCUMENT WHERE WE DOCUMENT AND TWHY WE DOCUMENT. The overriding goal is DOCUMENT for the continued success of your business NOT to make costly payments to Arbitrators, back pay to Employees, fees or fines to state or federal agencies, as well as Discriminatory agencies and private lawsuits