Beyond Discrimination Claims: What Else Can You Be Sued For?
Workplace Application: Minimize your organization’s litigation risk, armed with tips, tools, and strategies to identify subtle yet costly workplace claims.
While discrimination and sexual harassment are on every HR professional's radar, you need to be more proactive to spot—and avoid—the subtle risks of other kinds of claims, especially in an era of increased social media usage, lawyer solicitation, and employee savvy. This fast-paced interactive session offers tips and tools to help you minimize your litigation risk.
- Identify and understand the impact of workplace communications and conduct that can lead to defamation, fraud and privacy claims.
- Protect your organization with effective practices to avoid negligent hiring, defamation, and misrepresentation claims.
Learn from other employer's mistakes with a review of various cases from around the country.
Allison West, Esq., SHRM-SCP, AWI-CH
For over 20 years, Allison West has used her employment law background in delivering customized workplace training, conducting investigations, coaching executives/managers, serving as an expert witness, and specializing in conflict resolution and facilitated discussions to create more collaborative work environments.
Allison is a top-rated speaker at the SHRM Annual Conference as well as other HR/diversity conferences, and is a national expert on harassment, discrimination and investigations. She has appeared on PBS, CBS This Morning and in O Magazine discussing workplace harassment issues.
She is a member of the State Bar of California and holds her SHRM-SCP certification and AWI-CH (investigation) certificate.