Avoiding Retaliation Claims

January 27, 2009
1:00 p.m. (Eastern)
(this program was originally scheduled to take place August 12, 2008)

Featured Presenter: Shay Zeemer Hable, Esq. of Powell Goldstein LLP
Employment Law Attorney and popular IAML Instructor

Who Will Benefit:
All HR representatives and any manager who supervises employees will benefit from this basic to intermediate program, which will contain updates that even advanced managers can use.

About This IAML AudioPro ConferenceSM:
Retaliation claims may just prove the most difficult employment legal claims to defend. And, unfortunately, they are on the rise. In the employment discrimination arena, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports that retaliation claims nearly doubled in the last decade and now make up almost a quarter of all claims filed with the EEOC. By some estimates, each retaliation case costs the employer an average of $130,000.

In this conference we will cover:

  • A brief review of the source of retaliation in the law, including Title VII and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Nuances within the elements of a retaliation claim
  • How to conduct a risk analysis in a potential retaliation situation
  • Major legal minefields such as investigations, timing, and spotting a complaint
  • Potential retaliatory acts since Burlington Northern v White

Participants will have an opportunity to ask Ms. Hable questions at the conclusion of this program.

Featured Presenter:
Shay Zeemer Hable is with Powell Goldstein LLP in Atlanta where she practices in the area of Labor and Employment Law. Her practice includes representing management in employment discrimination lawsuits in various state, federal and administrative jurisdictions, including race, sex, disability, family and medical leave, and other discrimination claims. Ms. Hable's litigation experience also includes contract and fraud disputes arising from employment and independent contractor relationships. Ms. Hable has practical experience defending clients in consolidated actions in multiple jurisdictions. In addition to litigation matters, Ms. Hable's practice encompasses a wide array of counseling in employment and related issues, including review of employee handbooks and employment practices and policies. She has assisted clients involved in employment audits, layoffs, outsourcing and reorganizations. Ms. Hable has provided clients with guidance in employment disputes and investigations and drafted and reviewed enforceable employment contracts, restrictive covenants, and separation agreements. Ms. Hable was selected as a 2006 Georgia Super Lawyers' Rising Star. She received her J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Ms. Hable is an instructor in IAML's Certificate in Essentials of Human Resource Management and Certificate in Employee Relations Law Seminars.

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