This session is designed to help you identify the high risk areas so that you can avoid risky behaviour yourself and for your co-workers.
HR pros are involved in many areas where the organization can be exposed to legal liability. Yes, every phase of the employee journey can result in the employee claiming discrimination or retaliation. This session is designed to help you identify the high risk areas so that you can avoid risky behaviour yourself and for your co-workers. There are best practices that you will take away from this session that will allow you to navigate around EEOC charges, DOL investigations and employee lawsuits. Learn from an experienced employment attorney who litigates in the trenches and regularly sees where these landmines tend to be.
Learning Objective #1- This session will help you identify the high-risk activities that tend to result in EEOC investigations and employment law litigation.
Learning Objective #2 – You will learn how to avoid errors that other HR pros made. History is a great teacher.
Learning Objective #3 – You will be able to immediately return to your organization and implement real-world strategies in policies and practices after you attend this session.
David Miklas is the managing attorney of the Law Office of David Miklas, P.A. and he previously was a Partner/Shareholder with the law firm of Richeson & Coke, P.A., West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce. For 20 years Mr. Miklas has practiced all types of labor and employment law exclusively representing management (Florida employers), including both private employers, as well as Florida municipalities and school districts. He is an active member of the Academy of Florida Management Attorneys, the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, and their Labor & Employment Law Sections. Mr. Miklas is a member of several local Florida bar associations including their Employment Law Committee. Mr. Miklas previously served on the Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section’s Wage and Hour Administration Liaison subcommittee and was chosen to be the 2018-20 Martin County Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Committee co-Chairman. Mr. Miklas has been listed in Florida Super Lawyers since 2009 (listing no more than the top 2.5% of attorneys in the state) and has the highest, “Superb,” AVVO rating. Mr. Miklas has authored hundreds of employment discrimination articles, and co-authored a LexisNexis Expert Commentary on a Florida Law requiring employers provide leave for Domestic Violence, and is a co-author of one of the country’s leading legal Treatise on Employment law in Florida: Employment in Florida: A Guide to Employment Laws, Regulations and Practices, 2nd Ed., and for seventeen years, has been a contributing author for The Developing Labor Law, 3rd - 6th Ed. Mr. Miklas is a frequent employment law presenter and is a nationally recognized speaker and an invited guest lecturer addressing employment law and human resource issues with over thirty universities, including Harvard. Mr. Miklas graduated from the University of Florida College of Law.
