Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance EEOC Training/Services

Understand Your Organization’s Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance Responsibilities

Every successful organization must have a solid understanding of equal opportunity requirements. This understanding is the basis for building effective management policies and practices that help to prevent employment discrimination complaints and provide a solid foundation for a respectful work environment where employees are most effective.

Who Should Attend?
Albion’s Equal Employment Opportunity workshop takes your leadership through employment discrimination from the ground up. Our basic course is four hours in length; the eight-hour version allows time for skill practice. Designed for managers, supervisors, team leaders, human resource personnel and attorneys, its focus is two-pronged:

1. How to prevent discrimination complaints
2. How to conduct a thorough and successful investigation when they do occur

Blueprint for Prevention
The course begins with a practical guide on how to recognize discriminatory employment practices. Participants learn the principle types of employment discrimination, including:

• Harassment
• Retaliaton
• Accommodation
• Disparate Treatment
• Adverse Impact

Next, the workshop presents a thorough survey of the federal, state and local laws that apply to your organization. These include:

• Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act),
• ADEA (Age Discrimination and Employment Act)
• EPA (Equal Pay Act).
• Applicable state employment discrimination law

Finally, your leadership receives practical guidance on preventing discrimination. The sessions include exercises in rating fictional employment decisions with Albion’s Work Environment Quality Index (WEQI). With this tool, participants determine which employment decisions carry risks or may even violate EEO laws. Topics covered include:

• Recruitment
• Selection
• Hiring
• Performance Documentation
• Performance Management

Armed with the information from part one, your leadership is equipped to review its management policies and practices. By making adjustments to achieve full compliance, your organization will help prevent or limit liability from charges of employment discrimination.

Blueprint for a Successful Investigation
Discrimination complaints can and do occur even with the most vigilant employment policies. Terminations, demotions, suspensions, inadequate training opportunities, failures to hire and promote—these are among the many issues of employment discrimination. If a complaint is filed against your organization, does your management know what to do?

The second part of Albion’s workshop demystifies the investigation of a discrimination complaint. When human resource personnel, managers, supervisors and attorneys are empowered to control the investigative process, they gain a greater degree of certainty over the outcome. With our workshop, your organization learns to conduct an investigation thoroughly and quickly. Specifically, course participants:

• Learn the 34 steps of any investigation
• Understand what the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs), state and local investigators are looking for
• Develop a systematic inquiry to redefine the investigation
  • Determine the real issues in the case
  • Learn how to categorize complaints using the appropriate theory of discrimination
• Identify records and data relevant to the investigation
  • Analyze evidence and master a statistical method that supports the case
• Decide how to prepare for and conduct interviews
  • Discover interviewing strategies to get what you need
  • Learn to listen for verbal and non-verbal information
• Quickly summarize your evidence and make a determination
  • Learn how to describe your position/case finding to government agencies.

Our Environmental Protection Services: "Superfund" Training for Your Workplace Cleanup

Like chemicals or particles that pollute, inappropriate conduct can make a workplace toxic to employees’ well-being. Our Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance workshop, along with Anti-Harassment, Workplace Violence, and Discovering Diversity, is one of a quartet of Superfund training programs that are bottom-line requirements for the environment of any healthy organization. Each program is interactive, fun, informative and legally compliant. Included in each module is Albion’s own tool, the Work Environment Quality Index (WEQI). During training, employees learn to avoid situations that may cause a workplace to read "hazardous" or "toxic" on the WEQI dial.

When employees complete this quartet, they understand laws and policies governing anti-harassment and equal opportunity—and have a tool to identify and prevent damaging behaviors. They also will have learned to appreciate one another’s differences and use diversity to reach their work group’s common goals.

Ask about our Superfund today and let Albion Associates help with site cleanup and improving workplace dynamics.

For course details, see our other Superfund brochures:

• Anti-Harassment
• Discovering Diversity
• Workplace Violence