Topic: Maintaining a Respectable Workplace in the Me Too Era

All employers want to maintain a safe and respectable workplace. This session will define the requirements of the law and address steps you can take to maintain a respectful work environment at your work place.

Speaker: Gregory J. Griffiths, Attorney

Greg represents businesses of all sizes, as well as non-profit corporations and local government entities on employment and labor law matters.

He has extensive experience with employment and labor law in both the private and public sector. Greg advises his clients in all aspects of employment law including hiring issues, compliance with state and federal law, employment contracts and severance agreements, discipline and discharge issues, and on the prevention of employment law claims. He routinely represents his clients in the litigation of employment claims in state and federal court, as well as in administrative agency actions including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, the Department of Labor, and the National Labor Relations Board. Outside the courtroom, Greg is involved with labor union contract negotiations and arbitrations and provides training to his clients on a variety of employment and human resource issues. Greg is also regularly called on by other attorneys to mediate employment related disputes and is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of employment and labor law issues. In addition to his legal work, Greg has served on boards of directors for numerous non-profit and charitable organizations, and is active in the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Griffiths served as Dunlap & Seeger, P.A.'s managing partner from January of 2010 through 2015.

Lunch: Box lunches available from Jimmy Johns for $13. If you would like lunch ordered for you, please e-mail brenda@suklawfirm.com with your sandwich, chip and cookie request by Friday, 10/04/19. Checks payable to Brenda Nash-Eickhoff. See website for menu: https://www.jimmyjohns.com/menu/

Note: Location change! Due to a water leak at the library, we will meet at Dunlap & Seeger law firm, Conference Room 4-4.

This event is available for in-person attendance only.

CLE credit has been applied for this session.

Please RSVP by Friday, October 4, 2019.