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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
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