EEOC to Hold Two Workshops in Washington, DC for EEO, Civil Rights and HR Professionals

WASHINGTON -- The EEOC Training Institute and the Washington Field Office (WFO) of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold two Equal Employment Opportunity seminars on Monday, September 12, 2011.  They will be held at the Center for Association Leadership Eye Street Conference Center, 1575 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 (ASAE).  The morning session will be on "Harassment in the Workplace." The afternoon session, "Disability and Genetics in the Workplace: ADAAA, the Reasonable Accommodation Obligation and GINA," will highlight important considerations to employers in understanding and implementing the law and the final regulations under the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), as well as how to provide reasonable accommodations under the ADAAA. 

These seminars are aimed at experienced HR and personnel specialists; EEO specialists, counselors and investigators; civil rights officers; mediators and other alternative dispute resolution specialists; labor and employee relations specialists; and labor and employment law attorneys, in both the public and private sectors.  Both seminars meet the yearly refresher training requirement for Federal agency EEO investigators.  Recertification credits from HRCI and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits will be requested upon attendee request.

Registration for these seminars is now in progress at the EEOC's Training Institute website at www.eeotraining.eeoc.gov under the "EEO Seminars" radio button.  Click on "Register Now" and scroll down to the bottom of the page to Advanced EEO Workshops.  Or contact the Training Institute at 703-291-0880 or 866-446-0940 (800.828.1120 TTY) or eeoc.traininginstitute@eeoc.gov. 

The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment.  Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.