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Workshop:
Avoiding Retaliation Claims: Utilizing the Omsbudsman to Protect the Employer
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June 18, 2009
Manchester, CT
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Registration 8:30 AM
This seminar is open to CIRMA members only
SUMMARY
This CIRMA workshop provides participants information
about recent changes in the law regarding the complex area of
retaliation claims, and discusses various tools and procedures
they can use to protect themselves.
| Management Series
Avoiding Retaliation Claims: Utilizing the Omsbudsman to
Protect the Employer is part of CIRMA’s Management
Series. These workshops provide managers and supervisors
the understanding and skills they need to develop a
more effective risk management program. For more information
about the workshops, please email CIRMA at cirmaworkshop@ccm-ct.org.
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a potentially devastating blow
to employers with its decision in Burlington Northern &
Santa Fe Railway vs. White.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This CIRMA workshop provides attendees insight into the recent
changes in the law regarding employment discrimination and the
definition of "adverse employment."
Employers have a legitimate right to evaluate employee
performance and to take action regarding employment. However,
when those actions coincide with a charge of employment
discrimination, the employer should be prepared to disprove
retaliatory intent. The recent White v. Burlington Northern decision
sets a much looser standard that leaves employers the task of
carefully weighing their actions towards employees.
This new CIRMA workshop discusses proper ways to address
performance issues. The workshop also shows how an ombudsman
can help resolve issues before they become legal problems through
problem solving, open discussion, and mediation.
Topics include:
- What is retaliation?
- What is an "adverse employment" action.
- How have the courts interpreted the loose standard recently
articulated by the Supreme Court in White v. Burlington
Northern?
- How to properly investigate discrimination complaints?
- How to properly address performance issues that predate
or postdate any internal complaint or Commission on
Human Rights and Opportunities filing?
- How can the use of an ombudsman protect the employer by
forestalling retaliation claims?
AUDIENCE
- CEOs
- Superintendents
- Risk managers
- HR directors
- Municipal managers
- School administrators
- Board and commission members
SPEAKERS
Michael Rose, esq.
Rose Kallor, LLP
Attorney Rose is a principal at the law firm of
Rose Kallor, LLP. Attorney Rose advises
employers in all aspects of labor and employment
law. He also specializes in defending private
and municipal corporations in employment
disputes. He has defended employers before various
administrative agencies, the Connecticut
Superior, Appellate and Supreme Court, the United States
District Court for the District of Connecticut, and the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
WHERE
MANCHESTER PUBLIC WORKS - FIELD SERVICES
321 Olcott Street
Manchester Connecticut 06040
COST per attendee
This seminar is open to CIRMA members only and is free of charge.
DIRECTIONS
From I-291 and the North:
Take I-291 South to I-384 East. Take I-384 East to Exit 1 —
Spencer Street. At the end of the exit ramp from Exit 1, turn left
onto Spencer Street. Follow Spencer Street for approximately 1
mile. At the 4th traffic light turn left onto Olcott Street. The
entrance to the Public Works Facility—Field Services Division will
be on your left. Look for the Town sign — 321 Olcott Street.
Follow the entrance road approximately 1/4 mile, the Public Works
Facility will be on the left.
From the East:
Take I-84 West to I-384 East (Exit 59). Take I-384 East to Exit 1 -
Spencer Street. At the end of the exit ramp from Exit 1, turn left
onto Spencer Street. Follow Spencer Street for approximately 1
mile. At the 4th traffic light turn left onto Olcott Street. The
entrance to the Public Works Facility—Field Services Division will
be on your left. Look for the Town sign — 321 Olcott Street
Follow the entrance road approximately 1/4 mile, the Public Works
Facility will be on the left.
From Waterbury and the West:
Take I-84 East to I-384 East (Exit 59). Take I-384 East to Exit 1 -
Spencer Street. At the end of the exit ramp from Exit 1, turn left
onto Spencer Street. Follow Spencer Street for approximately 1
mile. At the 4th traffic light turn left onto Olcott Street. The
entrance to the Public Works Facility—Field Services Division will
be on your left. Look for the Town sign—321 Olcott Street.
Follow the entrance road approximately 1/4 mile, the Public Works
Facility will be on the left.
From New Haven and the South:
Take I-91 North to I-84 East. Take I-84 East to I-384 East (Exit
59). Take I-384 East to Exit 1—Spencer Street. At the end of the
exit ramp from Exit 1, turn left onto Spencer Street. Follow
Spencer Street for approximately 1 mile. At the 4th traffic light
turn left onto Olcott Street. The entrance to the Public Works
Facility - Field Services Division will be on your left. Look for the
Town sign — 321 Olcott Street. Follow the entrance road approximately
1/4 mile, the Public Works Facility will be on the left.
NOTE: Some landmarks on Spencer Street— Pep Boys on your left;
Shop-Rite on right, Lynch Toyota will be on right at the intersection of
Spencer Street and Olcott Street.
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