EEOC is Not Messing Around: Harassment Prevention for 2025 and Beyond
In April 2024, EEOC issued workplace-altering guidelines for harassment prevention. Have you adapted?!? Given EEOC's Guidance and current realities, we are seeing a massive proliferation in workplace harassment complaints. HR must be ready! Along with your organization's leaders and managers, HR is the key both to the prevention of inappropriate behavior that undermines these goals and to the correction when such behavior occurs. In addition to discussing the traps into which HR and leadership fall regarding their own conduct, this fast=paced and super-practical session focuses on the affirmative responsibilities of HR and managerial employees, addressing not only sexual but also racial, ethnic and other forms of unlawful harassment.
Learning Outcome 1: Understand how to minimize harassment issues from arising inside your workplace.
Learning Outcome 3: Identify common areas for exploitation of employees seeking to bring claims against your organization and discuss steps HR and leadership can take to narrow or close those gaps.
Learning Outcome 2: Analyze the affirmative responsibilities of HR professionals and managers regarding workplace harassment.
Michael S. Cohen, J.D.
Michael S. Cohen is a partner in Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country on subjects including harassment prevention; diversity, equity and inclusion; combatting implicit bias; performance management; discipline and discharge; hiring and recruiting practices; performance evaluations; FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance; leave of absence policies; LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace; substance abuse testing; workplace violence; records retention; conducting background checks; and more. Michael also has conducted investigations into claims of harassment and discrimination and has drafted employee handbooks, employment agreements, non-compete agreements and post-termination agreements. Michael regularly conducts in excess of 200 trainings each year. He has represented clients throughout the country in EEO and other administrative proceedings.
Michael has been cited as a national authority on employment issues by The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC.com, HR Magazine, SHRM On-Line, Employment Law 360, Inside Counsel Magazine, as well as many other publications. Michael serves as an Advisory Board Member of GenHERation and as a Board Member of Serve, Inc. Michael is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
