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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
August 10, 2023 Does the Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Affect Workplace Diversity? What Employers Need to Know.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Matt Tedeschi, Race, Supreme Court, Workplace culture
June 23, 2023 LGBT People Are Under Attack This Pride Month. Here Are 10 Things Employers Can Do to Support Us.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compensation, Digital Workplace, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, Equal Pay, For Employers, Human Resources, Leave from work, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Remote Working, Title VII, Wage Gap, Work from home, Workplace culture, Workplace Discrimination
March 24, 2023 An Employment Lawyer’s Take on Working from Home
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, COVID-19, Digital Workplace, Diversity, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Positive Work Environment, Remote Working, Strategic Planning, Work from home, Workplace culture
February 22, 2023 Do Employees Have Access to Their Personnel Files in Illinois?
Category: Compliance , Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Rebecca Chmielewski, Workplace culture, Workplace Discrimination
December 27, 2022 Ask If You Want It
Category: Communication, Company Values, Compensation, Employment Law, For Employees, Kristen Prinz, Negotiations, Positive Work Environment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture
November 28, 2022 What Do I Need to Know about Illinois’ New Work Rest Requirements?
Category: Employment Law, For Employees, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Positive Work Environment, Workplace culture
August 29, 2022 How to Handle Long COVID at Work
Category: Accommodation, ADA, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disability, EEOC, Employee Relations, Employment Law, FMLA, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Matt Tedeschi, Sick leave, Workplace culture
July 18, 2022 What Caused the Great Resignation (and How Can Employers Can Fix It)?
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Positive Work Environment, Workplace culture, Workplace investigations, Workplace Jerks
June 17, 2022 Pride in the Workplace: A Conversation
Category: Allison Wolcott, Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, LGBTQ, Positive Work Environment, Title VII, Workplace culture
May 31, 2022 Does Working from Home Benefit Mental Health or Harm It?
Category: Angelia Salgado, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Digital Workplace, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Mental Health, Work from home, Workplace culture
May 23, 2022 Six Tips for Making Workplace Team-Building Events More Inclusive
Category: Allison Wolcott, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Positive Work Environment, Workplace culture
January 10, 2022 Technical Foul on Sun's Owner: Inside the Hostile Work Environment of the NBA Phoenix Suns
Category: Christina Martinez, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, Sports, Workplace culture, Workplace discipline
October 26, 2021 Chappelle, Netflix, and the Trans Community: What Should a Business Do When Its Employees Are Offended by Its Products?
Category: Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Race, Workplace culture
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
June 29, 2021 3 Ways Working from Home Can Improve DEI Efforts
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Digital Workplace, Disability, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, Race, Religion, Title VII, Women in the Workplace, Work from home, Workplace culture
May 26, 2021 Basecamp Demonstrates Why Businesses Must Carefully Handle Political and Social Discussions at Work
Category: Communication, Company Values, Diversity, Elizabeth Hanford, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Politics, Workplace culture
April 27, 2021 After the George Floyd Trial, Support Your Employees by Starting the Anti-Racist Conversation
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Positive Work Environment, Race, Workplace culture
April 21, 2021 We’ve Adapted to Remote Work—And So Has Sexual Harassment.
Category: #MeToo, Christina Hynes Mesco, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Sexual Harassment Policies, Women in the Workplace, Work from home, Workplace culture
March 22, 2021 How to Conduct Effective Workplace Investigations
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Workplace culture, Workplace discipline, Workplace investigations
February 25, 2021 Black History Month Calls Us to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Race, Workplace culture
February 25, 2021 Humor at Work, and When Humor Isn’t Funny
Category: Employment Law, For Employees, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Workplace culture
October 16, 2020 Is Age Ignored in Corporate Diversity Initiatives?
Category: ADEA, Age , Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compliance , COVID-19, Diversity, EEOC, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Liability, Workplace culture, Workplace training
September 25, 2020 What Can Employers Learn from Kroger’s Religious Accommodation Litigation?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Diversity, EEOC, Exemptions, Human Resources, Religion, Workplace culture, Workplace training
December 17, 2018 Company Holiday Caution: How to Host a Fun and Professional Party
Category: Ashley Davidson, For Employers, Positive Work Environment, Workplace culture
June 04, 2015 Horrible Bosses: How to Deal with Difficulties in the Workplace
Category: Employee Relations, For Employees, Poonam Lakhani, Workplace culture, Workplace Jerks
January 22, 2014 A Word About Words.
Category: Christina Hynes Mesco, For Employees, For Employers, Workplace culture
January 02, 2013 Is Fear The Best Motivator?
Category: Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Mental Health, Workplace culture