On Dealing with Workplace Activism

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk about workplace activism. Our guest is Peter Rahbar, an employment attorney, workplace issues expert and founder of The Rahbar Group. He offers a three-step process—strategy, policies, and communication with employees—to handle whatever comes up, and with this being an election year, surely something will.

A company can’t predict or control problems created by workplace activism. But it can control its preparation for handling it. “If you don’t have a rapid response team set up as a company, you’re probably not doing your job, in my estimation,” he says. “You need to have a cross-company team ready to go when a crisis emerges. That would not only include general management executives, but also lawyers, comms people (and) technology people.” 

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