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
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
Speakers
Janette Levey Frisch is an attorney with more than 20 years’ legal experience. She works with employers on most employment law issues to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. She authors the firm’s weekly blog, where she discusses issues impacting employers today. She has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.Ms. Frisch has also spoken and trained on topics, such as criminal background checks in the hiring process, joint employment, severance arrangements, pre-employment screening among many others. She is licensed in New Jersey and New York. In addition, she serves as a Legal Wellness Professional to employers outside New Jersey and New York on almost all federal employment law issues, to enable employees to address workplace challenges before they escalate to litigation or costly audits.
Ms. Frisch is also a contributor to the recently released book, “Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition,” published by John Wiley and Sons, and authored by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska.
