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Family Responsibility Discrimination Law: Family Friendly Employer or Litigation Target?

Family responsibilities discrimination against employees because of their family caregiving responsibilities, whether conscious or unconscious, is becoming a major issue for employers.

Employers have been the subject of increasing, but not well understood, claims based on FRD claims. These claims have been pursued under a variety of both federal and state laws, and have resulted in multimillion-dollar verdicts. Learn how stereotypical thoughts about the work commitment and ability of employees with care obligations away from the workplace have led to costly claims. The EEOC has become quite active in the area since the issuance of its Enforcement Guidance: Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers With Caregiving Responsibilities which our speaker will be discuss and analyze. Review the proactive steps you can take to insulate your organization from FRD claims, and how to provide a workplace that can attract and retain capable employees who also happen to have family responsibilities. Understand how you can create and implement a policy to prohibit discrimination due to family responsibilities. Gain the know how to provide a workplace free of family responsibilities discrimination that will help facilitate a high morale and productive workforce, and avoid costly claims.

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Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD) Overview

  • Based on Negative Stereotypes About the Work Commitment and Reliability of Employees With Family Care Obligations
  • Increasing Diversity in the Workplace
  • The Sandwich Generation Phenomena - Employees Caring for Children and Parents
  • Millennial and Other Dads and Paternity and Other Child-Rearing Leaves

FRD Legal Claims

  • Federal Laws Involved in FRD Claims and Representative Cases
  • State and Local Laws Involved in FRD Claims and Representative Cases

Preventing FRD

  • Identifying Common FRD Problem Areas
  • Creating and Publicizing Employer FRD Policies
  • Key Elements of an FRD Policy
  • Supervisor Training to Prevent FRD

Other Employer Benefits of an FRD Policy

  • Recruiting Employees With Scarce Skills
  • Retaining Trained Employees, and Saving the Cost and Disruption of Hiring Replacements
  • Increasing Morale and Productivity
  • Avoiding Costly and Disruptive Lawsuits
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This course was last revised on September 24, 2019.

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  • ASA 1.5
     
  • This program qualifies for 1.5 continuing education hour(s) towards maintaining your ASA credential. Please contact ASA for more information at [email protected]. Please retain proof of attendance in the event your CE record is audited.
     

This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Frank C. Morris, Jr.

Frank C. Morris, Jr.

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

  • Senior Partner in the employment law practice in Washington, D.C., and co-chair of the ADA and Public Accommodations Group for the national law firm of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
  • Speaker on the ADA and employment law to the judicial conferences for the federal judges of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits
  • Adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School
  • Named to The Best Lawyers in America and the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers, and Washington, D.C. and Baltimore Top-Rated Lawyers
  • Represents and counsels employers and public accommodations nationally in employment, labor, leave, and disability matters
  • Can be contacted at [email protected]
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