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Founder and CEO of Workplace Answers Lynn D. Lieber, Esq. is a nationally recognized expert on harassment and discrimination law. Lynn and her team of subject matter experts are interviewed and quoted frequently by news media and industry journals. Below are some of the most recent articles:
09/01/2008
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Employment Relations Today: Questions-and Answers Column By
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Changing demographics and the growing recognition that diversity is crucial to organizational success has changed the view of diversity programs–from a vehicles social responsibility to business necessities. As shifting demographics today lead to a dramatically different working population in the future, organizations must take the necessary steps to create inclusive, diverse workplaces. Those that ignore these changes are potentially crippling the organization down the road.
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06/01/2008
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Employment Relations Today: Questions-and Answers Column By
Lynn Lieber, Esq. -- Responsibility for corporate compliance with complex, ethical, financial, international regulations and laws used to reside primarily with organizations’ legal and financial departments. Our increasingly global economy – coupled with the enormous liability, publicity and even criminal charges and jail time for corporate wrongdoing – makes it imperative for human resources practitioners to have knowledge of ethics-related laws and play an pivotal role in their everyday enforcement in the workplace.
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05/30/2008
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Investor's Business Daily - Companies often must act fast. They know that going all the way up the chain of command can bog them down. So many leaders place their trust in their front-line people, hold them responsible and make them accountable for success. Here's how leaders like Lynn Lieber do it.
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04/03/2008
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Employment Relations Today: Questions-and Answers Column, Spring 2008 by
Lynn Lieber, Esq. -- Recent, high-profile cases in the news have all too clearly shown the dangers to an organization when a workplace relationship is unexpectedly exposed or untangles badly. Such romances can lead to very negative publicity, sexual harassment claims, and even criminal charges, particularly when the relationship involves an executive and a subordinate. Add to that the ramifications that office romance can have on employee productivity, retention, and motivation, and you have the making of an HR nightmare.
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03/03/2008
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HR Magazine (Vol. 53, No. 2) SHRM.org -
By Kathryn Tyler Can 'love contracts' decrease an employer's litigation risks and keep office romances in check?
Lynn D. Lieber, an employment law attorney and founder and chief executive officer of Workplace Answers, a San Francisco-based provider of legal compliance education via the Internet, tells the story of a company she represented whose president was spending three to six hours with a subordinate behind closed doors. "He would come out with his hair messed up. He ended up promoting her so she worked directly for him...
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03/02/2008
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HRCROSSING.COM - By Robin Salisian
HR STAR for February, 2008: Lynn Lieber, CEO and Founder of Workplace Answers
"I began as an employment lawyer," says Lynn Lieber, CEO and founder of Workplace Answers Inc. "And although I very much loved practicing law, and I loved the relationship with clients and counseling HR people, my real passion is for training."
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10/19/2007
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Employment Relations Today: Questions-and Answers Column by
Lynn Lieber, Esq. -- Employers should have a
comprehensive plan for maintaining a safe work environment.
Many employers have developed such a plan as part of their
OSHA-related Injury and Illness Prevention Program. In order to
develop anappropriate plan to address violence in the workplace,
an employer should identify its particular risk factors.
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09/01/2007
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Workforce Performance Solutions By Cari McLean -
Ever-evolving labor-employment regulations
are often the banes of HR and legal working
relationships. “But the primary ways employment-law
changes affect organizations are in terms of
time, cost, productivity and risk of
reputation. In all those ways, it really
affects the bottom line of the organization.” said
Lynn Lieber, Esq., founder and CEO,
Workplace Answers, a provider of HR,
financial and ethics compliance training
courses.
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08/31/2007
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The Corporate Counselor - Could your organization be hit with a race discrimination lawsuit for “unconscious bias”? How do you prevent legal liability for unconscious acts?
Lynn Lieber discusses a question puzzling many legal counsel as they try to protect their organizations from becoming the next Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, which was recently sued by the EEOC for racial discrimination.
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08/15/2007
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Training Media Review - An independent industry review of Workplace Answers
2007 Sexual Harassment Prevention for Supervisors course received a 'Very Good' rating from veteran trainer
Linda Pacheco.
"Upon completion of the course, all supervisors should have a very thorough knowledge and understanding of the topic. The importance of firmly confronting workplace discrimination and harassment becomes obvious when you understand the damage it can inflict on others and on an organization."
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08/14/2007
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Training Media Review Summer 2007 edition. A new course from Workplace Answers that highlights for employees the many benefits of inclusion, 'Diversity Benefits' was independently reviewed by veteran industry trainer
Linda Pacheco and given their 'Very Good' ratrating.
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08/10/2007
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Investor's Business Daily By Steve Watkins - The problem for many businesspeople when it comes
to ethics is they aren't sure what's right.
"Technology is going to force us to come up with
an ethical code for everyone," Lynn Lieber said, "It
raises all sorts of business ethics questions."
Blogs and Web sites question behavior in the
corporate world -- including whether you can
complain about your boss, post work photos or bash
co-workers online. "A code could be a very powerful tool for
businesses to adopt," Lieber said.
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04/25/2007
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Human Resources Management: Ideas & Trends Interview conducted by CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, with Lynn Lieber -- Inter-office romances can lead to problems with employee productivity, retention and motivation and there may be legal implications as well. Such romances can lead to sexual harassment claims, particularly when the relationship involves an executive and a subordinate.
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04/23/2007
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By Lynn Lieber, Esq. - Managers with well-developed people management skills are critical to the success of any business. Human resources professionals recommend that organizations develop targeted training programs that give all managers a strong foundation in their skills for managing others.
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04/20/2007
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Investor's Business Daily - How can firms overcome damaging business ethics questions? It takes a lot of time, and just as much effort, experts say. "Americans want companies to act with integrity," said Lynn Lieber, founder and chief executive of Workplace Answers, a San Francisco-based corporate training firm.
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03/19/2007
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Talent Management Perspectives - The dismissal of City Manager Steve Stanton has opened the door to debate about the rights of transgender employees in the workplace and the legal ramifications of the issue for the private sector.
Such cases exact a heavy price on organizations in time, legal fees and reputation,
Lieber said.
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03/16/2007
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San Francisco Business Times - Workplace romantic relationships may be inevitable when considering the amount of time people spend at work, but companies can prepare for the fallout when relationships end.
It's hard to have a policy written in stone because it's like trying to put laws on human relationships,
said Lieber.
You can't legally prohibit people from dating other people.
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03/15/2007
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EEOC issued guidelines for employers that warned against subtle forms of bias and racism are reflected in its employment discrimination class lawsuit against Walgreen Company.
They were very, very broad,
Lieber says of the EEOC guidelines.
The EEOC is very serious about race and color.
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03/11/2007
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The revelation that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fired an IT employee for snooping has some asking who watches the watchers. The technology to monitor communications is advancing faster than corporate policies, leaving workers and their employers vulnerable to invasions of privacy and legal liability.
The IT staff now knows a lot about everyone -- they've become the keeper of secrets,
said Lynn Lieber.
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03/10/2007
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L.A. Times - Most large companies rely on in-house technology departments to monitor office phones and e-mail. But this week's revelation that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fired an IT employee for snooping has some asking who watches the watchers.
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02/07/2007
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Diversity, Inc. - Most people have heard the story of Lisa Nowak by now.
The incident brings up a question: How can a company protect itself from employees who develop romantic relationships with each other that go awry, whether it's peer-to-peer or supervisors and subordinates?
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02/07/2007
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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT—Ideas & Trends As more and more Americans are finding the confidence to “come out” of the proverbial “closet” as their true transgendered selves, workplace managers are finding it necessary to create new policies. An interview of Lynn D. Lieber, Esq., employment law attorney and CEO of San Francisco-based Workplace Answers.
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01/29/2007
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The Corporate Counselor - by Lynn D. Lieber
New evidence suggests that corporate culture plays a defining role in whether an organization conducts business in an ethical manner -- and that corporate counsel need to be part of assessing and changing that culture, when necessary.
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01/11/2007
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San Francisco Examiner - Companies with 50 or more employees are reviewing their workplace sexual-harassment training programs as more detailed California legal requirements go into effect next month.
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07/10/2006
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By Lynn D. Lieber, Esq. -- California's Fair Employment and Housing Commission (FEHC) issued revisions to the AB 1825 regulations explicitly endorsing e-learning as an "effective interactive" form of training that complies with the law.
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06/26/2006
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Web Pro News -- The assortment of workplace hazards entrepreneurs face in the business environment include the litigation-happy, and companies need to take steps to train staffers against possible harassment activities.
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05/25/2006
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By Lynn D. Lieber, Esq.,
Founder & CEO,
Workplace Answers, Inc. -- The EEOC recently issued comprehensive new guidelines as to what constitutes race and color discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The far-reaching guidance alerts employers to the complex and profound ways that racial and color-based bias and stereotyping can affect recruitment and hiring, as well as all terms and conditions of employment. The Commission notes that training and a review of recruitment and employment practices are key to avoiding liability and asserting an affirmative defense.
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04/24/2006
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Business Insurance -- Driving risk management down to the more than 300 local Boy Scout councils nationwide went further than inducing the councils to create active risk management committees.
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04/01/2006
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Diversity Inc. -- To be a successful diversity trainer, you need the heart of an advocate. Educating others about diversity and building a positive work environment is Lynn Lieber’s mission.
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