Responding to EEOC Discrimination Charges -What's Your Business Case?

Learning Objectives

• To analyze how to read between the lines of a discrimination charge.
• To explain how to outline and prepare the case.
• To identify what documentation is required. 
• To discuss whether it is beneficial to obtain statements from witnesses or managers.
• To evaluate the importance of having work standards.
• To analyze how to handle requests for additional information.

Course Description

This course is valid up to December 31st, 2024 for CPP and FPC Professionals. It is advisable to complete this course before that to get the credit on time.

charge of discrimination is a signed statement asserting that an organization engaged in employment discrimination. It requests EEOC to take remedial action.

In the fiscal Year 2021; The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 67,448 discrimination cases. Think about it, we have 200 workdays a year – so this equates to over 337 per day or over 42 every hour. Sheer numbers indicate that it’s just a matter of time before a discrimination charge crosses your desk. 

Get the information you need NOW to be prepared.

Your reaction to receiving a charge of discrimination follows the stages of grief – shock, denial, and anger, … some get depressed because they think they may get in trouble. Then reality sets in and they reach the acceptance and action stages.

The fact is discrimination charges are now just one of the risks of doing business. Proper preparation is the key to winning charges of discrimination. Properly responding to a Charge of Discrimination is never fun.

Join this CPE Business Law webinar to understand how should a company respond to EEOC Discrimination Charges.

Key topics covered in this CPE course:

• Review of Discrimination Charges Filed with the EEOC.
• Understanding if you need to hire an attorney.
• “Non-binding” Mediation.
• Whether to accept mediation.
• Outlining and preparing your case.

Overview

• EEOC charge statistics

  7 mins
• Discrimination charge

  13 mins
• Reading between the lines

  33 mins
• Outlining your position statement

  45 mins
• What if the EEOC finds reasonable cause?

  62 mins
• FYI - Disability complaints treated differently

  76 mins