LGBT Workers - Know Their Legal Rights and Their Employers' Legal Obligations

Why Should You Attend:

All employers need to understand the most recent legal and administrative developments that have now extended Title VII protections to these employees by creating a new protected class. In addition, employers must know the current status of these workers under relevant state and local laws. It is also critical to understand that all LGBT employees should not be deemed to have the same set of workplace needs. Those needs differ enormously, as do the protections and other workplace issues affecting them. In this webinar, the instructor will guide attendees through the thicket of laws and regulations that affect your relationship as employers with LGBTQIA workers.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• What does it mean to be LGBTQIA?
• What laws impact LGBTQIA employees?
• Case law related to LGBTQIA employees
• Federal, state and local law
• The discriminatory practices and effects of such discrimination
• Creating a workplace toolbox for developing LGBTQIA basic compliance
• Tools for developing best practices in dealing with LGBTQIA employees

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Directors
• HR Managers
• HR Executives
• Business Directors
• Any CO involved with employee relations/human resources

Instructor Profile:

Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With fifteen years’ experience, Ms. Kamber focuses her practice on labor and employment law, social media and technology law, HIPAA, and business law. Specific areas of her employment law practice include discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, business contracts, unemployment compensation, LGBT issues, labor disputes, FMLA, military leave, social media litigation, information privacy and technology, agency compliance, and medical record privacy. Her clients include companies, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals. Her work includes consultative and legal services, from outsourced HR and social media services to hearings, litigation, and appellate work. Ms. Kamber also regularly provides training and education for companies and individuals. She is licensed to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and in the U.S. Supreme Court; she is also an acknowledged expert witness for social media and networking.

Ms. Kamber is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions: she was selected as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Business Journal; she has received the Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association; she is the recipient of a grant from the Public Justice Foundation for her pro bono work on HIV/AIDS, and she was recently nominated as one of the Top Twenty-Five Women of Influence in the Lehigh Valley.

Aside from her legal practice, Ms. Kamber serves as the president and diversity chair for Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Lehigh Valley. She is currently an adjunct professor at DeSales University, instructing students in the MBA program in both HR and healthcare concentrations.

Topic Background:

About 9 million Americans, roughly the population of New Jersey, identify themselves as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender). That number is low as it only reflects those who choose to identify themselves under the labels of L, G, B, T, Q, I or A; the real numbers are far higher. Moreover lots of individuals have dated or been involved with others of the same sex. Despite the power and presence of this substantial group of Americans, issues founded in religion, biology and politics continue to generate debate over the inclusion of LGBT individuals both at home, by way of marriage and childbearing, and in the workplace. After decades of ad hoc action and Band-Aid type legislation by federal and state governments, solid positions have developed regarding the rights of LGBT workers to be free of discrimination and retaliation. The EEOC has finally acted, and it now recognizes LGBTQIA rights under Title VII non-discrimination rules. LGBT issues also may be impacted by the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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