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Sexual Harassment: How to Recognize and Prevent Devastating Claims and Workplace Culture Problems
Speaker :
Melissa Fleischer, Esq
About The Event
Course Overview
As we have seen recently, many organizations have someone who may have been harassing employees and yet the organization has swept in under the rug in the past. Although we are all familiar with sexual harassment, the recent stories as more and more victims tell their stories reflect that still organizations are not properly preventing harassment from occurring in their workplaces and are not responding properly. With many more women likely to come forward, HR has to ensure it is ready and that it knows how to properly respond to these allegations. In addition, HR has to do a better job to prevent harassment from happening in the first place. Employment law expert, Melissa Fleischer, Esq., will advise you on best practices in responding to workplace harassment allegations and helping your organization best protect itself from potential workplace harassment claims.
What You Will Learn During this Informative HR Webinar include:
- HR’s legal responsibilities to prevent harassment
- How have other organizations failed to properly handle harassment cases”
- Differences between quid pro quo and hostile work environment harassment
- Lack of intent is no defense
- Ensuring your organization is properly responding to sexual harassment complaints
- How to handle harassment complaints against high-level managers in your organization
- How to ensure confidentiality with harassment complaints
- Understanding the prohibition on retaliation when someone has complained of sexual and unlawful harassment
- Best practices for conducting an effective workplace harassment investigation
- And much more
Who Should Attend
- HR Professionals
- In-House Counsel
- Managers
- Business Owners
- Office Managers
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Speaker : 
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Melissa Fleischer, Esq
Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.
Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.
Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.