Education and Training
EPG provides comprehensive, interactive and customized training workshops to employers on a variety of employment issues:
EPG is a valuable resource to be utilized by employers of any size properly concerned about the laws and regulations pertaining to sexual harassment, discrimination and employer-employee relations. EPG’s workplace training programs provide employers with the skills and guidance to identify, assess, and resolve both commonly recurring and unexpected problems that arise in the workplace, as well as provide management with an orientation in the ever-changing legal landscape of employment law. As with many other areas in the business environment, a modest investment by an employer in educating its workforce can yield tremendous future savings, increase productivity, improve employee morale and loyalty, and provide greater opportunity to focus on the organization’s goals and objectives.
Why make the investment?
Over the past decade, courts have emphatically communicated that an employer is obligated to take “reasonable steps” to prevent workplace harassment and make “good faith efforts” to comply with all anti-discrimination laws. Conducting effective harassment and discrimination prevention training is a critical component of an employer’s reasonable efforts to prevent harassment and discrimination from occurring. In fact, several states, including California, Maine and Connecticut, have laws that mandate require some or all employers to provide harassment prevention training. This standard is quickly becoming a trend throughout the country. Further, when an employer takes proactive measures to prevent harassment and discrimination in the workplace, the employer may raise such efforts as an affirmative defense against harassment and discrimination liability and may avoid a punitive damages award.
In addition to training relating to the prevention of harassment and discrimination, employer education should extend to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship from recruiting and compliance with leave laws to performance management. Management should also be educated in the basics of employment law to enable managers to identify and address workplace issues, such as responding to an employee’s request for a reasonable accommodation, in a legally-sound and effective manner. Management should also be trained in performance management and coaching to motivate employees to be successful. EPG’s workplace training reduces the risk of costly litigation, decreases absenteeism, tardiness and employee turnover, and increases management’s effectiveness, company productivity and morale.
Why use EPG to conduct your training?
- EPG custom designs its training and education programs. Each program is tailored to the needs of the individual organization based upon the nature of its industry and its specific workplace policies, concerns, and culture.
- EPG can provide training and conduct workshops on selected modules to respond to particular concerns or provide a complete and comprehensive program for your company.
- EPG designs its seminars and prevention programs by providing practical guidance and strategies to reduce employers' exposure to employee complaints, charges, and lawsuits using a cost-effective, flexible and results-oriented approach.
- EPG's programs are intended to minimize an employer's need to invest substantial management time and resources in dealing with legal problems.
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