Description: This session is a follow-up to hiring session and focuses on separating employees from a company. We’ll cover legal and practical aspects of:

• The value of an Employee Handbook
• The importance of documentation and how to do it
• The severance agreement and when to use one
• How to terminate an employee and wrap up the separation
• Reference checks
• Responding to unemployment claims
• Whether AI generated content is appropriate

Speaker Bios:

Sharon DeLay is an HR consultant, business owner, national speaker, and President of GO-HR, an outsourced HR firm serving small and micro businesses across the U.S. Through GO-HR, she partners with organizations to build compliant, practical, and people-centered HR practices across strategy and compliance, recruiting and onboarding,
training and development, benefits consulting, and workplace investigations. Sharon brings deep experience from higher education, direct sales, communications, and
corporate leadership, and is known for translating complex HR and employment issues into clear, actionable guidance for business owners and leaders. 

Sharon holds an MBA and multiple undergraduate degrees and maintains senior-level HR credentials including SPHR and SHRM-SCP, along with certifications as a Career Coach, Résumé Writer, and EEO Investigator. She recently earned SHRM’s AI+HI Specialty Credential, reflecting her focus on the responsible and ethical integration of artificial
intelligence with human intelligence in the workplace. An active industry and community
leader, Sharon serves in leadership roles with the Human Resource Association of Central Ohio, has held board positions with business and nonprofit organizations, and regularly contributes her expertise through training, mentoring, and community engagement focused on strengthening workplaces and small businesses. Sharon lives in Columbus, OH (O-H!) with her husband and three dogs. From April through October they enjoy camping with friends.

Karen Poling, Esq., graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. with a B.S.B.A. in finance and international management; she worked for a Washington D.C.
commercial mortgage banking firm prior to attending law school. Returning home to Central Ohio, Karen graduated from The Ohio State University College of Law. She was a
managing editor for the Ohio State Law Journal before becoming a staff attorney to JudgeThomas O’Grady of the Court of Appeals for the Second District. 

In 2000, Karen started private practice in Dublin, Ohio. In August 2006, Karen started her own practice focused on the areas of domestic and employment law, moving her practice to Hilliard in December 2012. Karen is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association, Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Inn of Court, the Human Resource Association of Central Ohio, and Hilliard Chamber of Commerce. Karen is married and has two human children and two furry ones.

1.5 General NLT Hours

Attendees will receive General CLE Credit if they do not need NLT hours. 

This CLE will be held on Zoom. Login to the website and click the "Register" button to register. You will receive a confirmation email from the Columbus Bar AND an email from Zoom containing information about joining the meeting.