Workplace Investigations
COVID-19 accelerated the need for remote working quicker than many businesses anticipated. While employers and employees have adjusted to the new normal, the change in the workplace has raised many employment-related questions. Join Andy Botwin of Strategy People Culture LLC, Wayne Pinkstone of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Colby Colarossi of ADP, and Richard Jones of Sullivan & Worcester…
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Thanks to diversity training and heightened awareness in workplaces, many people are striving to eliminate phrases and words that can be interpreted as “microaggressions.” A microaggression can be defined as an everyday behavior or phrase, intentional or unintentional, that indicates bias or hatred toward a historically marginalized group. Unlike overt displays of bigotry, microaggressions are…
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Right now, we’re in an era that calls for personal – and corporate – responsibility with workplace discrimination. It’s the time of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and asking the world to simply do better when it comes to sexual harassment, racism, sexism, ageism, and other biases. Between 2010 and 2017…
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Up until June 15th, employers in over half the States in the Nation could fire someone simply because they were Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual or Transgender. As astonishing as they may sound to some, to others it was a very real fact of life. We are amid a significant Black Lives Matter movement and the timing…
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US Supreme Court Decision Hanging in the Balance of LGBTQ Discrimination Surprisingly to some, in 2020 people can be legally fired from their job because of their sexual preferences and gender identity. Certainly, there are varied social opinions surrounding these matters. Regardless of your political, religious and social views, these issues are being actively discussed…
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