Preventing Harassment, Cultivating Civility, and Navigating EEO Issues When World Events Enter the Workplace

Navigating Emerging Issues of Workplace Harassment for EEO Compliance in 2025: Key Takeaways for Employers

Workplace harassment remains one of the most challenging issues for employers across all industries and constitutes over a third of all charges filed with the EEOC. Learn about emerging issues and best practices for navigating workplace harassment in the 2025 workplace, including issues regarding sex harassment, online harassment, the inappropriate use of social media, and harassment that occurs off the clock and outside the workplace.

Prompt and Effective Investigations: Best Practices for Responding to Harassment Complaints

Conducting a thorough and effective workplace investigation is critical for effectively addressing harassment complaints in the workplace. By using practical, hands-on case examples, this session explores best practices to ensure that the investigation is adequately sufficient to “arrive at a reasonably fair estimate of truth,” as set forth in EEOC’s new Enforcement Guidance on Workplace Harassment. Specific discussion includes what constitutes a complaint and how to determine the proper scope of the investigation, maintain confidentiality, analyze evidence, assess credibility, and utilize various interviewing techniques.

Navigating EEO Issues When World Events Enter the Workplace

Conversations sparked by current events have become all too common in the workplace, and although many conversations are civil and respectful, some may evolve into heated and angry debates which can create a hostile work environment under federal EEO laws. Learn what employers need to know to protect themselves from legal liability created by employee interactions related to hot button social topics and best practices for navigating challenging workplace conversations.

Connecting Civility and EEO: Activating Values for Compliance and Results

Workplace civility is a necessary yet often overlooked ingredient in driving EEO compliance and preventing workplace harassment. Aligning organizational values with core behaviors can help drive compliance while improving performance and reducing organizational risks. Learn how to reduce rude, divisive, and uncivil behavior and create organizational strategies that help build EEO compliant workplaces to prevent behavior from rising to the level of illegality.   REGISTER