Beyond Discrimination Claims: What Else Can You Be Sued For?

SHRM 2013 Employment Law and Legislative Conference
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.

 

Date(s) & Time(s): 
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Presenter: 

Allison West, Esq., SHRM-SCP, AWI-CH

Allison
West, Esq., SHRM-SCP, AWI-CH

Allison West is an employment attorney by background and for over 20 years has assisted employers in creating and maintaining safe and respectful work environments.

She focuses her practice on delivering customized workplace training, conducting workplace investigations, coaching executives/managers concerning performance or disciplinary issues as well as leadership topics, and serves as an expert witness. Allison also specializes in using her mediation skills to help individuals and groups to work through conflicts and 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.

 

 

Location: 
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Amount of Credit: 
1.50
Credit Type: 
HR Credit
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Business Acumen
Critical Evaluation
Intended Audience: 
Mid-Level
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