How To Prevent Your Employees from Suing Your Company: A Candid Conversation About What Leads Disgruntled Employees to Become Plaintiffs and What HR Can Do to Prevent this from Happening
What is it that transforms unhappy employees into plaintiffs and what proactive measures can employers adopt to avoid expensive litigation? In this session, Adam Rosenthal, an employment litigator and author of the recent book Managing Employees Without Fear: How To Follow the Law, Build a Positive Work Culture, and Avoid Getting Sued, will discuss the forces that turn employees into litigants and the concrete measures HR professionals can implement to train managers on how to prevent wasteful litigation.
Learning Objectives:
- Better understand the internal and external forces which are causing more employees to turn to litigation to resolve workplace disputes.
- Train leaders in identifying potential “red flags” and learn how to navigate around them to avoid litigation.
- Learn a number of best practices and creative solutions when negotiating severance agreements with disgruntled employees.
- Learn how to best prepare their organization and leadership team for potential litigation, including proper documentation, securing relevant evidence, and communication to various stakeholders.
Adam Rosenthal
Adam Rosenthal is an employment attorney and Partner at Sheppard Mullin based in California. Adam represents a broad spectrum of companies before federal and state courts and arbitration forums. In addition to his single plaintiff and class action litigation practice, Adam advises clients throughout the country on compliance matters. Adam is one of the few attorneys on the SHRM Speakers Bureau. This is the third year in a row Adam has been invited to lecture at the SHRM Annual Conference. Adam is also the author of Managing Employees Without Fear: How to Follow the Law, Build a Positive Work Culture, and Avoid Getting Sued. Adam received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his law degree from UC Davis.