Session #806: Investigating Harassment Claims
Harassment is the most common claim in most organizations. This interactive workshop covers every aspect of a harassment investigation from beginning to end, with emphasis on avoiding good-faith mistakes that are often exploited in litigation. Includes lessons learned based on the presenter’s experience with the EEOC Select Task Force on Harassment.
Learning Objectives:
- How to respond to issues that arise during a harassment claim investigation; proper and improper responses.
- How to avoid common good-faith mistakes.
- How to document harassment claims properly.
- Various other issues surrounding an investigation.
Jonathan A. Segal
Jonathan is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in its Employment Group. He also is the Founder and managing principal of the Duane Morris Institute, which provides training on employment issues to HR professionals, in-house counsel and other leaders.
The core of Jonathan’s practice is helping employers maximize legal compliance and minimize legal risk with regard to harassment, discrimination, retaliation and reasonable accommodations.
Over the past few years, Jonathan has focused on religion in general and antisemitism in particular. In addition to helping clients, Jonathan has delivered a number of talks on antisemitism on behalf of the EEOC as well as to field directors of the EEOC.
Jonathan has provided training to federal judges and other members of the federal judiciary on various employment issues for more than 20 years.