California Dealership HR Bootcamp Part III

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    $49 CNCDA Members

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In this 3-part seminar series, we cover the three main causes for lawsuits against California dealers and teach you what you need to do to avoid being sued.

Coming up on September 8, in Part III, John Boggs and Dave Reese of Fine, Boggs & Perkins LLP will address very significant changes to California law in the area of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, and the upsurge of pro-employee laws affecting how dealerships need to investigate, respond to and resolve such issues. These recent new laws support a strong comeback for sexual harassment/gender discrimination claims.  In Part III, we will discuss:

  1. New Training Requirements for Employees and Managers and how to comply with those requirements.
  2. Investigating claims of harassment, discrimination and retaliation given today’s “Me Too” environment: When is it okay to investigate in-house and when you need outside assistance to investigate.
  3. How to properly discipline and discharge employees (including proper paperwork) to avoid claims of discrimination and retaliation.
  4. How dealerships can resolve claims of harassment, discrimination and discharge given California’s new rules and limitations on settlement agreements. Simply having the wrong language in the written settlement agreement or not including certain new language can cost you more than you know– even invalidating the entire settlement agreement after it has been paid. Are severance agreements a good idea?
  5. New rules prohibiting confidentiality agreements or “gag order” agreements.
  6. How does binding arbitration work in all this given the new federal law prohibiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment/assault claims.
  7. Real life questions
  8. Free attorney time