Resolving Federal EEO Complaints Early and Writing Enforceable Settlement Agreements
EEOC regulations require agencies to make reasonable efforts to settle complaints of discrimination voluntarily as soon as possible throughout administrative complaint processing, including the pre-complaint counseling stage.
Join recognized EEO authorities Elizabeth Lytle and Roslyn Brown as they provide techniques to help you resolve EEO complaints early in the process. You'll learn how to:
- Educate the parties on the process and what is realistic in terms of outcomes
- Question both parties to accurately assess the gap in perception about what happened
- Use a direct style of questioning to uncover shared interests and move parties to a common ground
- And more
Plus, Ms. Lytle and Ms. Brown will provide guidance on how to draft a settlement agreement that is clear and enforceable, including how the agreement terms should be structured to avoid ambiguity and what to do if the parties agree to priority consideration or a neutral reference for the aggrieved. What's more, you'll learn how to recognize and ensure that agreement terms do not violate other statutes, regulations or procedures which would render the agreement unenforceable.
This audio conference is part of the Federal EEO Training Series and can be applied toward the annual 8-hour update training for current EEO professionals required by the EEOC. A certificate of completion will be available for interested attendees.
Speaker and Presenter Information
Roslyn D. Brown, Consultant, Independent Contractor, EEO Workplace Solutions Before retiring from the government in 2009, Roslyn Brown was the Director of Intelligence Community EEO and Diversity Outreach for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Her federal civil rights career spans over 30 years. Her prior positions include: Deputy Director of the National Equal Employment Opportunity Program at Treasury/Customs Service, Director of Discrimination Complaint Review at the Internal Revenue Service, and Director of Affirmative Employment Programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and is a certified mediator for the District of Columbia. She wrote Executing Enforceable Settlement Agreements: A Guide for Federal Agencies and has been a speaker at the annual HR & EEO in the Federal Workplace Conference and Federal Dispute Resolution Conference. Elizabeth Lytle, Director of EEO Counseling, DSZ Elizabeth Lytle is director of EEO counseling for DSZ, a minority- and female-owned civil rights consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia. DSZ focuses on providing a range of EEO services to the federal sector: investigations of employment disputes; counseling and mediation services to help settle such disputes; a wide range of interactive training programs for both managers and employees, as well as for employment professionals; and a technical assistance unit capable of evaluating the federal workplace and providing recommendations for improving it. Ms. Lytle is the author of Resolution Reached, Formal Complaint Avoided: Practical Skills to Settle Federal EEO Disputes (LRP Publications 2008) and The Federal EEO Investigator's Companion (LRP Publications 2010).
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When
Wed, Mar 16, 2011, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Website
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Organizer
LRP Publications & cyberFEDS
