Retaliation Claims: How to Immunize Your Workplace Against Them

This webinar on Retaliation Claims will help you understand the nature of retaliation in the workplace, What happens when an employee complaints of discrimination or harassment alleges illegal or unethical behavior within your organization? Employees who do so are legally protected from retaliatory action by employers. While the EEOC (and its state counterparts) continues to receive discrimination charges, retaliation claims are the #1 charge

Why Should You Attend:

Over an approximately 10-year period, these types of claims have doubled. Why? They are easy to bring and relatively easy to prove. Employees can lose on an underlying discrimination or similar claim and still win on the retaliation claim.

This webinar will help you protect your organization from retaliation claims.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Identifying what is and isn’t protected activity.
• Defining adverse action/retaliatory conduct.
• Standards of proof/proving retaliation claims.
• Potential damages.
• The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent employee-friendly ruling.
• Who is protected under the law - what is the “zone of interests” test?
• How to manage your workforce after a complaint has been filed.
• Protecting your company from claims - before and after a complaint.
• What your policies and training should include.
• What to do (and what not to do) if an employee sues, files an EEOC charge, files
• Complaints of illegal/unethical activity with another governmental agency

Who Will Benefit:

• Business owners
• CEO’s, Senior Managers
• All managers
• H.R. Professionals
• In - House Counsel.