Employment Law Compliance: Minimizing Your Company’s Risks While Advancing Workplace Initiatives with Attorney Katherin Nukk-Freeman, President, SHIFT HR (#17)

Keeping workers engaged and purpose-driven is an important part of HR's job, but so is keeping your company out of court because of pitfalls related to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and more. To give you that ever-important legal perspective on the hot topics of DEI, hybrid work, and cultural competency, we've called in Katherin Nukk-Freeman, attorney and co-founding partner of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra PC, and President of SHIFT HR Compliance Training.

Highlights:

[4:44] Root causes for why companies aren’t moving forward with DEI

[8:26] How can DEI training become a problem for employers?

[10:31] Executing effective DEI policies that avoid exposure to legal risk

[12:50] What HR needs to be mindful of while coming up with a DEI plan for the organization

[17:11] What to do if it looks like your DEI plan is going to get challenged in court

[19:32] What is cultural competency?

[27:32] Effective return to work strategies

[32:12] Employment law and hybrid work

[37:18] Resources for HR to track pending employment legislation

[2:17] DEI compliance risks in the workplace

Guest Bio

Katherin Nukk-Freeman, President, SHIFT HR Compliance Training

Katherin is the Co-Founder of SHIFT HR Compliance Training and the co-founding Partner of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C. - the largest woman-owned employment law firm on the east coast. She is a passionate advocate for building better workplaces, and has dedicated her career to working with clients to proactively address and effectively manage workplace issues. As a dynamic employment law advisor, training instructor and industry thought leader, Katherin is a highly sought-after speaker and for the past five years has also served on the Board of Directors for ConnectOne Bancorp Inc.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinnukkfreeman/

https://shiftelt.com/

https://nfclegal.com/

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