CIRMA Workshop: Avoiding Retaliation Claims: Utilizing the Omsbudsman to Protect the Employer; June 30, 2009

Workshop:

Avoiding Retaliation Claims: Utilizing the Omsbudsman to Protect the Employer

June 30, 2009
Old Saybrook, 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.

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 OLD SAYBROOK PAVILION AT SAYBROOK POINT
155 College Street
Old Saybrook Connecticut 06475 COST per attendee This seminar is open to CIRMA members only and is free of charge.

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For more information, please call Martin Connelly at 203-946-3743 or email cirmaworkshop@ccm-ct.org.

DIRECTIONS

From New Haven and the South:
1-95 to Exit 67. Keep to the right on the exit. This will put you on Route 154. Continue straight on Rt. 154. At the third light, turn left onto Main Street (still Rt. 154). Follow Main Street (Rt. 154) through the business district through traffic light at Fire House (on left). Continue along Rt. 154 through traffic light at Maple Avenue. Continue on 154 to stop sign, directly ahead is the Connecticut River. Go past the stop sign, just before flagpole, the Saybrook Point Pavilion will be on the left.

From Providence and the North:
1-95 to Exit 68 continue straight, bear to the right at the yield sign onto Rt.1, at first light turn left onto Rt.154, go to second light andturn left onto Main Street (Rt. 154). Follow directions above from Main Street.

From Hartford:
Take 1-91 South to Route 9 South. Take Exit 2 (Old Saybrook, Rt. 154) Turn right at end of exit onto Rt. 1 54/Middlesex Tpke. At 3rd light get into the left lane. Turn left at the 4th light onto Main Street (Rt. 154). Follow directions above from Main Street.

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Phone: (203) 498-3000
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