Avoiding and Properly Responding to Sexual Harassment and Unlawful Harassment Complaints in Your Workplace

Duration: 60 minutes

Speaker: Melissa Fleischer, Esq

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ABOUT THE EVENT

Is there a Harvey Weinstein lurking in your workplace? Chances are there is. Although sexual harassment has been around for over fifty years, recently more and more women have been coming out with their stories and commencing lawsuits about harassment they have experienced in the workplace that has often been ignored, hidden, or buried. Since the Harvey Weinstein story broke, many more women have come out and alleged that men in all different industries including many high-level executives have sexually harassed them. As more and more plaintiffs begin to speak out on their experiences, HR has to be prepared and know what to do to respond to these allegations and to prevent them from happening in the first place. Employment law expert, Melissa Fleischer, Esq., will update you on how to best respond to current harassment allegations that arise and on how to ensure that your organization is doing everything possible to prevent sexual and unlawful harassment in your organization.

Some Of The Many Things You Will Learn During This Informative HR Webinar Include:

Your legal obligations under the law to prevent harassment in your workplace
Mistakes employers have made with harassment that has cost them "big time"
The types of harassment that can occur in the workplace
Whether the person's "intent" is relevant
How to respond properly to allegations of sexual and unlawful harassment in the workplace
What if the alleged harasser, is your CEO or a "C" Suite Executive?
Understanding your obligations regarding confidentiality
Make sure that you comply with your obligation not to retaliate
Properly investigating sexual and unlawful harassment complaints to protect your organization
And much more

Who Should Attend:

HR Professionals
HR Directors
Managers
In-House Counsel
Attorneys
Business Owners

Speaker(s)

Melissa Fleischer, Esq

Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.

Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.

Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.

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Credits: 1.0

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