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What Every School Leader Needs to Know About Personnel Law:

Presenter Bob Joyce, highly respected professor of public law at UNC-School of Government, will guide participants though an interactive study of school personnel law. Participants will obtain knowledge to protect themselves as they deal with the complex array of school personnel issues and sensitive situations.

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Topics Include:
  • Understanding the basics of public school employment
  • Legal consideration in recruitment and hiring
  • Contracts or employment
  • Applicant and employee drug testing and other considerations of privacy
  • Performance evaluation and documentation
  • Unlawful discrimination, including reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
  • Pay, overtime, and the Fair Labor Standards Act
  • Employee free speech issues
  • Discipline, dismissal, and due process
  • Reporting Obligations
  • Investigating employee misconduct, including sexual harassment

Presenter:
 
Bob Joyce is a lawyer and a specialist in public school law, especially the law related to employment. He has practiced law in New York City and in North Carolina and is now the Edwin Hinsdale Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the School Law Bulletin, published by the UNC School of Government, and the author of The Law of Employment in North Carolina’s Public Schools. Bob consults regularly with school administrators and the lawyers who represent school boards. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the Harvard Law School.

Registration:
Wingate, NC

January 7, 2010
9:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.
Wingate University- Room C, LaVerne Banquet Hall


Greenville, NC

January 13, 2010
9:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.
Greenville Centre
East Carolina Univeristy- University Development
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Seminar Fees :

Once you have registered online, please send payment to NCPAPA at:
NCPAPA
P.O. Box 27711
Raleigh, NC 27611

* Due to anticipated interest, all payments are due on January 4, 2010.
If payment is not received your attendance spot may be jeopardized.

NCPAPA Member
 $99
NCASA Member
 $99
Student
 $99
Non-NCPAPA Member
 $149

CEU Credits :
Particpants will receive a certificate acknowledging 6 hours of completed CEU credits.