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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Chai Feldblum about her career-spanning work with the Americans with Disabilities Act and LGBTQ+ issues. Feldblum served as a commissioner at the EEOC for 10 years and is now vice chair of the AbilityOne Commission and a workplac...

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 EEOC and AI in the workplace. Our guest is Jim Keaney, a senior associate at Sandberg Phoenix.  Keaney walks us through the EEOC’s Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative. Keaney says the EEOC has taken a...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee . Today we’re featuring a conversation with T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about best practices for employers hoping to avoid unionization. Our guest is David Pryzbylski, a partner at Barnes and Thornburg and blogger and...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about non-compete agreements. Our guest is Jay Zweig, a partner at Ballard Spahr who has been an employment attorney for more than two decades. Non-compete agreements, as well as other restrictive covenants like non-solicitation agree...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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.   Our guest is Bernadette Sargeant, a partner at Stinson. A veteran of investigations both in private practice and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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 federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and other pregnancy accommodation laws. Our guest is Kameron Dawson, the senior staff attorney for...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a previously live-recorded conversation, including audience Q&A, with Jessica Stender, Policy Director and Deputy Legal Director, Equal Rights Advocates. We discuss pay discrimination, which she describes as “pervasive, persistent, pernicious.” Sten...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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 inve...

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 hist...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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...

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 a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee . Today we’re featuring a conversation about wellnes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cannabis and the workplace. Our guest is Narcisa Przulj. She is a partner at Sandberg Phoenix who counsels employers as they wrestle with these chang...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cancer, covid and the workplace. Our guest is Ann Hodges, a professor emerita at the University of Richmond and 30-year cancer survivor. She co-found...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk about our country’s at-will employment regime and how it favors employers over employees. Our guest is Cynthia Estlund. She is a leading and wide ranging scholar of l...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about non-compete clauses. Our guest to discuss the best ways to please both parties is Nefertari Rigsby, the Executive Director, Human Resources and Emplo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com 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 in the entertainment world. Our guest is Anthony Panebianco, a senior associate at DarrowEverett. Classifying workers is compli...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Our guest is Carla Brown, a partner at Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft. A little-known secret:...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the changing union landscape. Our guest is Cristina Gallo, a partner at Cohen, Weiss and Simon. Unions are creeping into new industries, the National...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Today, we are featuring a discussion with Mike Selmi, an employment law professor and expert in algorithmic decision-making as it applies to hiring practices. An algorithm is only as good as the people who program it and the data it analyzes. With the rise of algorithmic decision making in the hiring process ha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Maria Papasevastos. Pay transparency is one of the most vexing issues faced by employment attorneys, companies and human resources executives. The rul...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com It’s common for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to change its approach when a new presidential administration takes office, especially when the new administration also represents a change of political parties. But the degree of change in the last few years has surprised experts in the employment law s...

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