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January 27, 2026 HR Investigations Simply Aren’t Enough: Illinois Law and Workplace Gender Violence
Category: #MeToo, Accommodation, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Handbook Compliance, Harassment, Human Resources, Illinois, Leave from work, Mary F. Charlton, Positive Work Environment, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Title VII, VESSA , Women in the Workplace, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace investigations
October 21, 2025 How Top-Tier Companies Manage Misconduct the Right Way
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Contingency Planning, Culture audits, Employee Relations, For Employers, Harassment, Human Resources, Laura Feldman, Liability, Positive Work Environment, Retaliation, sexual harassment, Strategic Planning, Training, Workplace culture, Workplace investigations, Workplace training
July 21, 2025 Caught on Candid Camera: The Costs of Workplace Relationships
Category: Company Values, Employee Relations, For Employers, Handbook Compliance, Human Resources, Jasmine Townsend, Liability, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture, Workplace training
July 17, 2025 Protecting People at the Top—and from the Top: Harassment at the Executive Level
Category: #MeToo, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Strategic Planning, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture, Workplace training
April 28, 2025 Executives Face Harassment, Too—and Women Usually Have the Most to Lose
Category: #MeToo, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Kristen Prinz, sexual harassment, Sports, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture
July 24, 2024 What We Can Learn from the NY Philharmonic Sexual Assault Scandal?
Category: #MeToo, Culture audits, Human Resources, Laura Feldman, Rebecca Baba, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sexual Harassment Policies, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture, Workplace investigations
June 26, 2024 The EEOC Endorses Independent Workplace Investigators and Culture Audits
Category: ADA, Anti-Discrimination, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Culture audits, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Legal Changes, sexual harassment, Title VII, Workplace investigations
November 17, 2023 Company Holiday Party Dos & Don'ts
Category: Contingency Planning, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Feldman, Positive Work Environment, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Strategic Planning, Title VII, Women in the Workplace, Workplace discipline
October 19, 2023 An Underutilized Tool for Sexual Assault Victims: the Illinois Gender Violence Act
Category: #MeToo, Employment Law, For Employees, Human Resources, Illinois, Laura Feldman, Legal Advocacy, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace
August 22, 2023 What Can the Lizzo Lawsuit Teach Us about Our Workplaces?
Category: Allison Wolcott, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture, Workplace Jerks
December 21, 2022 What Does the Speak Out Act Mean for Workplaces?
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, Employment Laws, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Advocacy, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Discrimination
October 25, 2022 The Brave New World of Employment Agreements: Ending Forced Arbitration
Category: #MeToo, Arbitration, Contract Law, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Legal Changes, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace
June 24, 2022 Chicago to Enforce Stronger Sexual Harassment Regulations
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Training, Women in the Workplace, Workplace training
March 29, 2022 The Impact of Restricting Mandatory Arbitration
Category: #MeToo, Arbitration, Contract Law, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace
February 18, 2022 New Ordinance Mandates Contracts for Domestic Workers
Category: Domestic work, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Minimum Wage, Overtime, Poonam Lakhani, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment
December 29, 2021 The Washington Football Team, Jon Gruden, and Employment Law
Category: Amit Bindra, Discrimination, Employment Law, sexual harassment, Sports, Women in the Workplace, Workplace investigations
December 16, 2021 Every Business in Illinois Is Required to Provide Harassment Training—Regardless of Its Size
Category: Compliance , Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Training, Women in the Workplace, Workplace training
October 22, 2021 No Day at the Beach for Chicago Lifeguards Who Faced Sexual Harassment
Category: #MeToo, Government, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Sexual assault, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace training
August 27, 2021 Blackhawks in the Penalty Box: Why Safe Workplaces & Timely Investigations Are So Important
Category: Elizabeth Hanford, sexual harassment, Sports, Workplace culture, Workplace discipline, Workplace investigations, Workplace training
April 21, 2021 We’ve Adapted to Remote Work—And So Has Sexual Harassment.
Category: #MeToo, Christina Hynes Mesco, Digital Workplace, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Remote Working, sexual harassment, Sexual Harassment Policies, Women in the Workplace, Work from home, Workplace culture
August 23, 2017 What Counts as Sexual Harassment in the Workplace?
Category: For Employees, For Employers, sexual harassment, Sexual Harassment Policies
April 29, 2016 The Rise of Technology and Sexual Harassment
Category: Digital Workplace, For Employees, sexual harassment, Sexual Harassment Policies