Case Study: Proactive Employee Retention Solutions

There is an increasing litigious atmosphere in company settings as it relates to discipline and termination of employees. The Schmiedeskamp employment law team focuses much of their efforts on how we can best prepare our employment clients to reduce and minimize legal risk and exposure related to discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuits.

We focus on being proactive and preventative in employment situations. One of the ways in which we assist clients is in providing training seminars to supervisors, managers, and team leaders to: educate them on relevant Federal and State laws on discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; review company policies; and provide practical tips and solutions to addressing employment conflict to reduce and minimize legal risks and exposure.

Training seminars have reduced discrimination claims with clients due to increased knowledge and sensitivity of key leaders to possible "red flag" issues that need to be handled with a diligent and thoughtful approach to avoid great legal risks down the road. Further, when discrimination and harassment claims are filed, clients are able to assert in its defense that anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies are taken seriously, as demonstrated in part by the training on a regular basis of supervisors, managers and key leaders.