Decisions, Decisions: Whose Side Do You Take When Senior Management Breaks the Law?
HR executives wear two hats on a daily basis: supporting executive management and advocating for employees. But what do you do when your executive team oversteps legal boundaries and it impacts your entire population? Do you stand behind management or protect your employees? What are the pitfalls? Will you be a casualty of doing the right thing? Are you the next American Apparel and Uber? Hear real-life examples of HR challenges when executive management goes rogue and asks for support from HR. Learn options to protect your employees and yourself from a practitioner’s perspective. In this session, you will:
- Review the legal obligations that result from illegal or law-breaking activity.
- Discuss remedies to go around your executive team to report inappropriate behavior or actions by senior management.
- Learn tips to deal with the press if you are caught in the middle of a public situation involving inappropriate behavior.
Mark Fogel
Mark S. Fogel is currently a Director for Clifton Larson Allen’s National HR consulting practice. He is a former CHRO for Leviton, Marcum, and Success Academy Charter Schools, Mark has been the recipient of several national awards including SHRM’s Human Capital Leader of the Year in 2007, SHRM’s Innovation in a Down Economy in 2009, and HR Executive Magazine’s Honor Role in 2010. He has also been recognized as a 50 around 50 award recipient by Long Island Business News. Mark is also a part-time educator employed as a Senior Adjunct Professor of distinction at Adelphi University in their MBA program. Additionally, he facilitates the SHRM SCP/CP prep class for HR Jetpack. Mark has presented over two dozen times at SHRM and World at Work national, regional, and local conferences on a broad range of HR topics. Often Quoted in national media, Mark brings a refreshing point of view to every HR discussion.
