Sharing the Love – Or Not? How to Handle Office Romances
Wed, December 04, 2019 at 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT Duration 90 Minutes
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Speaker:Janette is an attorney with more than 20 years legal experience. Janette works in her own law practice with employers on most employment law issues
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Overview
Romance may sell novels, TV shows and movies, but in the employment context it is often not a positive development, especially when the workplace romance sours. For example, can you be sure the relationship is consensual and would not form the basis of a sexual harassment claim? What if one of the parties reports to the other? Can your company enact a no dating policy? What if anything should an employer do if it hears rumors of a workplace romance? In this webinar we will address these and other questions key issues that every employer needs to understand about workplace harassment and how to respond appropriately to these situations, including appropriate policies and investigation procedures in order avoid liability.
Areas Covered
Key areas we will cover include without limitation
- Overview of the Issues Involved in Interoffice Dating
- What is sexual harassment?
- Courtship at Work
- Best Practices for Dating and Keeping it HR Appropriate
- Hiring Married Couples
- What to do When Employees Break Up
- What is a Love Contract, and Should You Have One?
Who will benefit
- H.R. Managers and Directors;
- Business Owners;
- CEO’s;
- Senior Managers;
- Any direct managers/supervisors;
- VP HR;
- HR Generalist
Your Instructor
Janette is an attorney with more than 20 years legal experience. Janette works in her own law practice with employers on most employment law issues, acting as the Employer's Legal Wellness Professional - to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. Janette authors the firm's weekly blog and has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.
Janette has also spoken and trained on topics, such as Criminal Background Checks in the Hiring Process, Joint Employment, Severance Arrangements, Pre-Employment Screening among many, many others. Janette is licensed in New Jersey and New York. In addition, Janette serves as a Legal Wellness Professional to employers outside New Jersey and New York on almost all federal employment law issues, to enable employees to address workplace challenges before they escalate to litigation or costly audits. Janette is a member of the Workplace Violence Prevention Institute, a task force that serves as a resource to employers committed to taking a proactive, holistic approach to preventing and appropriately responding to the growing threat of workplace violence. Janette is also a contributor to the recently released book, "Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition", published by John Wiley and Sons, and authored by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska.
Janette serves as a member of the Workplace Violence Prevention Institute, an interdisciplinary task force dedicated to providing cutting-edge holistic solutions to the increasing concern over workplace safety and workplace violence prevention.