Abortion Protections Struck Down, LGBTQ Harassment Guidance Vacated, EEO-1 Reporting Opens - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 44: Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations with Kimberly Hewitt and Antwan Lofton of Duke University
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 8 | Gambling and Harassment: Wyoming’s Game-Changing Ban
What's the Tea in L&E? Supervisor Liability: What Managers Need To Know
What's the Tea in L&E? One Time Too Many: What is “Severe” Conduct?
What's the Tea in L&E? Truth Hurts or Rumors? Lizzo’s Harassment Allegations Serve As A Good Reminder
Bystander Responsibility in the Era of #MeToo: Lessons Learned From Apple TV’s The Morning Show - Hiring to Firing Podcast
Constangy Webinar - DEI Audits: Tools to Enhance Your DEI Practices
What Can the TV Series Succession Teach Us About Harassment? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Judge Barrett’s Employment Law Record, Arbitrator to Rule on Postmates’ Challenge, Responding to Frivolous Lawsuits - Employment Law This Week®
[WEBINAR] Labor & Employment Law: What Changed in 2017
Episode 37: How To Provide Meaningful Employment Training (…and Also Comply With NYC Law)
Employment Law This Week®: Workplace Harassment Review in Federal Courts, DOL Opinion Letters, NLRB Nomination, ICE Raids
This Week in FCPA-Episode 74
Part 1 of 2: My Sit-Down Interview With Former EEOC General Counsel David Lopez
Employment Law This Week: U.S. Supreme Court Nominee, California’s Anti-Harassment Regulations, Oregon’s Minimum Wage, Whistleblower Legislation
AB1825 Training and Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Training
Waldman: Stop Immunizing Websites That Allow Harassment
Stefan Hankin on Online Harassment
Polsinelli Podcasts - Workplace Bullying: What Employers Need to Know
With the internet ablaze over the recent apparent outing of a workplace romance among executives during a Coldplay concert, employers may be reviewing the legal implications of workplace relationships and considering options...more
During the first quarter of 2025, the French Supreme Court has rendered a number of rulings on harassment in the workplace. Whether moral, institutional, environmental or sexual, harassment is a burning topic and the French...more
The National Labor Court published a ruling recently regarding employers’ obligations when investigating complaints pursuant to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law. In the case at hand, the complainant studied and...more
Depuis de nombreuses années le harcèlement, qu’il soit moral ou sexuel, fait l’objet d’une grande préoccupation sociétale et médiatique, tout particulièrement au sein des entreprises. Dans le cadre de son obligation générale...more
Under Title VII, an employer may be liable for sexual harassment by one co-worker of another if it knew or should have known of the conduct and took no action. According to a recent decision from the Eighth Circuit Court of...more
Reporting Harassment to Third Parties Constitutes Slander - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - When reporting facts that can form the basis for a complaint of harassment (moral or sexual), the...more
Many HR professionals spend a significant amount of time investigating employee complaints and, depending on the outcome of these investigations, implementing corrective measures to halt and prevent bad behavior in the...more
If you are a woman and work for the Astros, what do you think will be the internal action if you are harassed? Do you think for one nano-second your complaint would be taken seriously? Would the Astros attack/retaliate...more
It is important that Arizona employers know how to properly respond to complaints of unlawful discrimination or harassment, particularly in light of the MeToo movement. Each year, I consult with employees seeking legal advice...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Fourth Circuit recently found that reducing a current employee’s voluntary overtime opportunities – despite the absence of a reduction in overall income – could be considered a tangible or materially...more
Alleged workplace harassment is not a new phenomenon, but in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct in the corporate context, plaintiffs increasingly are targeting an expanded group of defendants, including public...more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on August 23, 2018, released for public comment a series of electronic draft materials and guidance as a follow-up to the State's sexual harassment law passed in April 2018. The public comment...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In compliance with the New York State Anti-Sexual Harassment legislation passed earlier this year, the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has released drafts of the model sexual harassment policy, training...more
The State of New York recently issued draft guidance for employers regarding the anti-sexual harassment legislation passed earlier this year....more
On August 23, 2018, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order that contains a model policy, model complaint form, and model training in accordance with the state’s new sexual harassment law....more
It’s not a joke. It’s really not. In fact, 81 percent of women and 43 percent of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment in their lifetime, according to a survey conducted by nonprofit organization Stop Street...more
With only a few exceptions (e.g., harassment training in California), employment-related training is voluntary, not mandatory. We all have so many demands on our time and not enough time in the day to meet them...more
This final installment of a six-part series on harassment investigations discusses how to close the investigation and steps to take after the investigation has been closed. As always, bear in mind that each harassment...more
Before concluding a harassment investigation, the investigator should follow up with other possible sources of evidence, record and summarize the investigation, and reach a conclusion. This fifth part of a six-part series...more
In any investigation of a harassment complaint, the investigator must interview people and take notes. This fourth part of a six-part series addresses techniques for note-taking and tips for assessing the credibility of...more
You have received a complaint of harassment and interviewed the complainant. In this third part of a six-part series, we discuss interviewing the accused and other witnesses....more
The #MeToo movement started as a wave of press coverage exposing long-suppressed stories of sexual harassment and exploitation in Hollywood. That movement, however, has now gone far beyond Harvey Weinstein. ...more
You have received a complaint of harassment. What next? In this second part of a six-part series, we focus on interviewing the complainant and planning the remainder of the investigation. ...more
What if you were the human resources manager or in-house counsel that received a complaint that Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, or any of the other number of recently accused individuals sexually harassed an...more
Swedish Labor Court Clarifies Employer’s Obligation to Investigate Claims of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - The Labor Court recently tried a case regarding...more