Managing Disciplinary Challenges

in the Fire Service

November 13-14, 2024

Kansas City, Kansas

Hosted by the Kansas City Fire Department

The dirty little secret: discipline is associated with over 55% of our liability.

If that statistic sounds absurd to you - you are not alone. But here's the reality: the fire service despises discipline - it offends our culture - to the point that we have very little training in it.

Discipline is involved in 7,475 of the 13,527 cases in my Fire Service Litigation Database. That is 55% of our litigation.

This includes:

• Firefighters challenging discipline
• Firefighters alleging that that the department failed to discipline the perpetrators of sexual harassment, race discrimination or other forms of discrimination
• Civilians alleging they were harmed by the misconduct of on-duty personnel that the department knew about but failed to control

From the department's perspective, are we prepared to address the challenge? From the union's perspective, are we prepared to hold the department accountable to handle discipline properly in a fair and objective manner?

Can you answer the questions that are asked in these types of suits:

• Isn't it true you have no training in how to conduct a disciplinary investigation?
• Isn't it true you have no training in how to determine what is an appropriate penalty?
• Isn't it true you have no standards to determine when a disciplinary matter needs to be investigated?

Join us in Kansas City, Kansas November 13-14, 2024

Managing Disciplinary Challenges

in the Fire Service

December 11-12, 2024

Marlton, New Jersey

Hosted by the Evesham Fire Department

Advanced FLSA: Calculating Regular Rate for Firefighters

** Live Webinar **

December 4, 2024 - 1:00pm Eastern

$150 per person

FLSA Bootcamp for Volunteer & Combination Fire Departments

Live Webinar - December 18, 2024

1:00pm Eastern

$150 per person

Advanced Disciplinary Issues:

Toxic Employees

** Live Webinar **

January 15, 2025 - 1:00 PM Eastern

$150 per person

Managing Disciplinary Challenges

in the Fire Service

January 29-30, 2025

DeLand, Florida

Hosted by the DeLand Fire Department

Advanced Disciplinary Challenges

in the Fire Service

March 11-12, 2025

Park City, Utah

Hosted by the Park City Fire District

This 2-day program is a deep study into the causes of, and solutions for, discipline - related problems in the fire service. Managing difficult employees, credibility determinations, and advanced interviewing are just a few of the in-depth topics covered. The program is geared toward fire officers, HR professionals with responsibility for fire departments, attorneys, and experienced union representatives who routinely advise members during an internal investigation.

The course builds upon Managing Disciplinary Challenges in the Fire Service, going deeper into interviewing; identifying and managing deception; evidence collection and handling; due process; Weingarten; Garrity and a firefighter’s right to remain silent are thoroughly covered along with the impact of civil service, collective bargaining, and firefighter bill of rights laws.

Day 1

Intro to Advanced Concepts – 9am to 10:30am

• Managing bias in witnesses & ourselves

Evidence Use and Control – 10:30am to 12pm & 1pm-2pm

• Managing evidence collection

Advanced Interviewing – 2pm to 5pm

• Cognitive interviews
• Advanced Weingarten
• Managing interview problems

Day 2

Advanced Garrity – 9am to 11am

• Garrity
• Gardner

Credibility determinations 11am-12pm & 1pm-2pm

• Empirical evidence on deception
• Credibility Factors

Toxic employees & the HR issues they create 2pm-5pm

• FLMA
• ADA
• Title VII, ADEA, & more

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