This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations. Our guest is Bernadette Sargeant, a partner at Stinson. A veteran of investigations both in private practice and government work, Sargeant walks us through how HR should decide when to hire an outside investigator ...
Jan 24, 2024•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and other pregnancy accommodation laws. Our guest is Kameron Dawson, the senior staff attorney for A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization. A Better Balance produced a report called Long Ove...
Jan 10, 2024•8 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a previously live-recorded conversation, including audience Q&A, with Jessica Stender, Policy Director and Deputy Legal Director, Equal Rights Advocates. We discuss pay discrimination, which she describes as “pervasive, persistent, pernicious.” Stender offers tips to companies on how to spot, and get rid of, pay discrimination within their pay...
Jan 03, 2024•33 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations, training and arbitration. Our guest is Lindsey Wagner, who founded Moxie, which offers workplace training and investigations to deter costly investigations and provide creative resolutions (when possible/needed) th...
Nov 29, 2023•9 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the 60th anniversary of the passage of Title VII and the past, present and future of protected classes in the workplace. Our guest is Hnin Khaing, the director of the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights. Khaing sees the history of Title VII as a mixed bag. Our court and regulatory systems are still swamped with allegations...
Nov 15, 2023•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about labor negotiations with Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell, whose background uniquely qualifies her for this conversation. She’s been a member of a union, an attorney for a union and a corporate vice president negotiating contracts on the management...
Nov 08, 2023•8 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification, a world-wide issue that goes far beyond Uber, freelance work and other aspects of the gig economy. Joining us to explain all the nuances of this complicated issue is Samantha Prince, an assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law. She says “uncertainty and volume of lawsuits” related to this issue is n...
Nov 01, 2023•23 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about what the recent ruling in the Harvard-UNC Supreme Court case means for workplace diversity. Our guest is Stacy Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers who speaks and writes often about diversity, hiring and college admissions. She walks us through key con...
Oct 25, 2023•8 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee . Today we’re featuring a conversation about wellness and seeking help in the workplace. Our guest is Bree Buchanan, senior advisor at Krill Strategies ...
Oct 18, 2023•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cannabis and the workplace. Our guest is Narcisa Przulj. She is a partner at Sandberg Phoenix who counsels employers as they wrestle with these changing laws. Cannabis law is an emerging field in employment law. Marijuana is now legal for recreation...
Oct 11, 2023•7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cancer, covid and the workplace. Our guest is Ann Hodges, a professor emerita at the University of Richmond and 30-year cancer survivor. She co-founded an organization called CancerLINC, and through that she has helped countless people with cancer n...
Oct 04, 2023•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk about our country’s at-will employment regime and how it favors employers over employees. Our guest is Cynthia Estlund. She is a leading and wide ranging scholar of labor and employment law and workplace governance. Currently a professor at NYU’s Law School, she has...
Sep 06, 2023•9 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about non-compete clauses. Our guest to discuss the best ways to please both parties is Nefertari Rigsby, the Executive Director, Human Resources and Employment Law Partner for Kaplan North America. Non-competes are a necessary, if also controversial, par...
Aug 09, 2023•7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification in the entertainment world. Our guest is Anthony Panebianco, a senior associate at DarrowEverett.Classifying workers is complicated enough. In the entertainment world, it is made more difficult because many performers would rat...
Aug 02, 2023•7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Our guest is Carla Brown, a partner at Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft. A little-known secret: Most employees, if they are victims of discrimination, harassment or retaliation, don’t want to...
Jul 26, 2023•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the changing union landscape. Our guest is Cristina Gallo, a partner at Cohen, Weiss and Simon. Unions are creeping into new industries, the National Labor Relations Board is increasingly favoring workers’ rights, and some companies are fighting mor...
Jul 19, 2023•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Today, we are featuring a discussion with Mike Selmi, an employment law professor and expert in algorithmic decision-making as it applies to hiring practices. An algorithm is only as good as the people who program it and the data it analyzes. With the rise of algorithmic decision making in the hiring process has come concern in the legal community that those algorithms may be biased. In reviewing what has bee...
Jul 12, 2023•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Maria Papasevastos. Pay transparency is one of the most vexing issues faced by employment attorneys, companies and human resources executives. The rules vary from state to state, which is confusing enough on its own. It’s made doubly difficult becaus...
Jul 05, 2023•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com It’s common for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to change its approach when a new presidential administration takes office, especially when the new administration also represents a change of political parties. But the degree of change in the last few years has surprised experts in the employment law space. Add that to an ever-changing work environment, and it’s never been more important for employer...
Jun 28, 2023•6 min
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Jun 23, 2023•2 min
