Event Details

Investigations: what to do after an employee tells you #MeToo. 

Attorney Tim Zollinger, with Ward, Murray, Pace and Johnson, will review the steps necessary to properly respond to sexual harassment complaints.  This discussion will also cover handling of practical problems that occur when complaints are made, how to handle the chain of authority when high-level employees are accused, issues of possible administrative leave, and how to reach closure.

Mr. Zollinger would like specific questions to answer from the audience.  Please submit those ahead of time to rrhrpa@gmail.com.  Your name and company will not be shared with the speaker or the group if you so choose.

Timothy B. Zollinger is a partner/ shareholder in the law firm of Ward, Murray, Pace, & Johnson P.C..  He was licensed in Illinois to practice law in 1992 and is admitted to practice before courts in Illinois, the Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  His primary practices areas include employment law, municipal law, and school law.   He represents employers before the EEOC, Illinois Department of Human Rights, OSHA, the U.S. and Illinois Department of Labor, and before State / Federal courts.  WMPJ has offices in Dixon & Sterling.

This is the meeting that was postponed in January due to inclement weather.