Harassment-Free Workplaces, July 30, 2019

Creating and Living a Harassment-Free Workplace Environment

Tuesday, July 30, 2019
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm ET
90 minutes

Register for Live Webinar: $219

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Special Feature: If you register for this webinar and cannot attend, you will be able to access a one-time instant replay without charge for up to 90 days after the date of the webinar.

Bonus for Each Registrant: The webinar speaker will answer one written question that you may submit by email within one week after the webinar

Description

#MeToo: What began as a social media hashtag has quickly become a cultural phenomenon. The U.S. Equality Opportunity Employment Commission’s (EEOC) statistics for fiscal year 2018 revealed a 13.6 percent increase in harassment complaints when compared to 2017. In all, workers filed 76,418 workplace harassment complaints of all types. The EEOC recovered nearly $70 million for complainants in fiscal 2018 – nearly a $23 million increase from 2017.

With this heightened awareness also comes a number of concerns. Approximately 85 percent of the claims filed with the EEOC in 2018 were filed by women. It is estimated that approximately half of all male managers have grown uncomfortable working with women in an isolated setting. In fact, in January of this year, the New York Times released a piece entitled “Another Side of #MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women,” which highlighted the problems with avoiding women as a way of addressing the problem of sexual harassment.

Avoidance is not the answer – knowledge is. Knowing what sexual harassment is and how to prevent it is the only way to weather the proverbial #MeToo storm. In this webinar, attorney Robert G. Brody will discuss how to identify and prevent workplace harassment, as well as a host of other related issues.

Agenda

An introduction to how states and the federal government are working to address sexual harassment.
A discussion of what sexual harassment really is and what it is not.
An overview of other forms of illegal harassment and the ever-evolving law in this area.
A discussion of the concept of retaliation.
A discussion of an employer’s responsibility when responding to claims of workplace harassment, challenging issues, and best practices to ensure a proper investigation process.
Test what you’ve learned: a brief workshop in critical thinking through real world examples.

Faculty

Robert G. Brody, Esq., In 1997, Robert G. Brody founded Brody and Associates, LLC, a labor, employment and benefits law firm which represents management. Before founding Brody and Associates, Bob was a Managing Partner for Jackson Lewis, one of the largest management-side, labor and employment law firms in the United States.
Bob has been in private practice for more than 35 years. He has represented businesses across the United States. He works in all industries and with companies that are leaders in their own industry, as well as with developing companies. As new laws emerge, Brody and Associates anticipates what these laws mean and what steps are needed to maintain compliance. Every month Brody and Associates share these insights among clients and friends with its legal monthly updates. When counsel isn’t enough, Bob has represented clients across the country before civil rights agencies, Wage and Hour Tribunals, States Attorneys General offices, many State Departments of Labor, and of course State and Federal courts.
Bob Brody can be reached at rbrody@brodyandassociates.com or by phone at (203) 454-0560.

Continuing Education Information

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Continuing HRCI Credit

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Continuing SHRM Credit

Park Avenue Presentations is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org

Continuing Legal Education Credit

This webinar has been approved in the following states for continuing legal education credit by The Marino Legal Academy:

California: 1.5 credit hours
The Marino Institute for Continuing Legal Education is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 credit hours of participatory CLE credit.

New Jersey: 1.5 credit hours
This webinar has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 CLE credit hours.

New York: 1.5 areas of professional practice credit hours
This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for veteran attorneys for 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.5 credit hours may be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice.

Pennsylvania: 1.5 credit hours

This Distance Learning program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.

To receive CLE credit for this webinar in those states, please request such credit by writing to info@parkavenuepresentations.com. Your request will be forwarded to The Marino Legal Academy for processing.

CLE credit for this webinar may also be awarded in a number of other jurisdictions. For more information, please contact a Marino Legal Academy legal education consultant at (212) 249-3779, x104.

Webinar Overview

90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
Q&A session with the expert.

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