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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations, the metaverse, and, of course, dolphins. Our guest is Lindsey Wagner, who founded Moxie, which offers workplace training and investigations to deter costly investigations and provide creative resolutions (when possible/needed) through mediation.Workplace investigations have changed rapidly in the last decade, and more changes are coming, perhaps nowhere more challenging than in the metaverse. Preparing for such changes, both as an intellectual exercise and as a way to help clients, is part of what Wagner loves about being an employment attorney. 
“How are we going to handle those issues?” she asks. “It’ll be a fun and exciting topic. One of the things about employment law in general is it always keeps you on your toes, and it’s changing every day. There’s never a boring day.”This is the second of two podcasts with Wagner. In the first episode, we talk about best practices in investigations, how to avoid them in the first place, and how to resolve them once they’re completed.
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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations, training and arbitration. Our guest is Lindsey Wagner, who founded Moxie, which offers workplace training and investigations to deter costly investigations and provide creative resolutions (when possible/needed) through mediation.
Wagner says the best way to handle a workplace investigation is to be ready for it before it happens. That means having policies in place and training your employees to follow them.
Some states require training, and even in those that don’t, Wagner strongly encourages her  clients to conduct it anyway. “So many times we see issues with employees where they don’t know,” she says. “They say, ‘I didn’t know that wasn’t OK. And now that I know, I won’t do it anymore.’ And so many of the issues that come into play could have been avoided by a proper education and training of employees.”
This is the first of two podcasts with Wagner. In this episode, we talk about best practices in investigations, how to avoid them in the first place, and how to resolve them once they’re completed. In the second, Wagner traces her career from a childhood spent longing to be a dolphin trainer to waking up every day excited to go to work.
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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the 60th anniversary of the passage of Title VII and the past, present and future of protected classes in the workplace. Our guest is Hnin Khaing, the director of the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights.
Khaing sees the history of Title VII as a mixed bag. Our court and regulatory systems are still swamped with allegations of discrimination, so the problem of inequality remains firmly entrenched in American workplace culture. But at the same time, she says, it’s better than it was when Title VII was adopted in 1964.
Khaing says some states have jumped out ahead of the federal government, with more robust laws and a deeper set of protected classes. Washington, D.C., for example, protects employees against 18 kinds of discrimination, while Title VII covers only five. She forecasts more changes, and more public arguments about them, in the near future, foreseeing new laws covering hairstyle, domestic workers and the trans community.
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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development.  Today we’re featuring a conversation about labor negotiations with Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell, whose background uniquely qualifies her for this conversation.
She’s been a member of a union, an attorney for a union and a corporate vice president negotiating contracts on the management side. In other words, she’s seen every side of contract negotiations and lived to tell about it.
And what she tells are great stories about how (and how not to) conduct effective contract negotiations. The key, she says, is maintaining open lines of communication. You don’t have to like the person on the other side, but you do have to listen to them and respect them if you want to get a deal done. The supplemental materials and episode transcript are available below.
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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification, a world-wide issue that goes far beyond Uber, freelance work and other aspects of the gig economy.
Joining us to explain all the nuances of this complicated issue is Samantha Prince, an assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law. She says “uncertainty and volume of lawsuits” related to this issue is not sustainable, and that it’s not just a financial or book-keeping issue, it’s a health issue.
People who work without benefits such as retirement plans, paid time off or health insurance face stress-related health issues. But there’s no legal reason for it to be that way. Employers can provide benefits even to contract workers. “Some people do conflate receiving benefits with the current culture of traditional employment, which means ‘giving up your freedom,’” she says. “But there’s no rule that says that you have to give up control of your hours or how you work just because you’re receiving benefits.”
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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about what the recent ruling in the Harvard-UNC Supreme Court case means for workplace diversity. Our guest is Stacy Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers who speaks and writes often about diversity, hiring and college admissions.
She walks us through key concepts to understand the differences and similarities between race-conscious college admissions and workplace diversity hiring efforts, discusses the search for a hiring case similar to the admissions case and lays out her passion for reviving the role-model theory as a strategy to increase the diversity of workplaces.
Hawkins also explains how she transitioned from a career in private practice to being a professor, commentator and thought leader and offers practical advice for anyone hoping to make a career change.
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