Archived Webinar

Global Discrimination, Harassment, and Diversity Policies and Strategies for Multinational Workforces

Overview

  • Event Held On: 8/3/2010

Full Event Description

U.S. multinationals are committed to eradicating illegal discrimination and harassment and to propagating diversity. Indeed, good corporate social responsibility and ethics demand robust compliance with discrimination, harassment, and diversity mandates. Some multinationals take a “zero tolerance” approach. These initiatives tend to emerge first in U.S. domestic operations. It is when companies decide to extend these programs internationally that challenges arise.

This session will address five issues vital to cross-border discrimination, harassment and diversity compliance efforts:

  1. Drafting a workable discrimination prohibition (policy or code of conduct provision) for international workforces;
  2. Addressing the special problem of age discrimination in the international context;
  3. Complying with discrimination laws in international pay practices;
  4. Combating harassment in global operations;
  5. Launching global diversity initiatives.

Speaker Biographies

Donald C. Dowling, Jr., White & Case LLP

Donald C. Dowling, Jr.
International Employment Counsel, White & Case LLP

Donald C. Dowling, Jr., International Employment Partner at White & Case LLP in New York City, leads a team of lawyers who exclusively practice cross-border employment law for multinational employer clients. Don and his team advise on multi-jurisdictional employment-law compliance on matters including: global M&A deals, global reductions-in-force, global codes of conduct/HR policies, global HR information systems/data privacy, and expatriates. Don is ranked in the top tier (“Leading”) in the only competitive ranking of U.S. international labor/employment lawyers, London-based PLC Which Lawyer?, he is ranked by Chambers as one of the top 34 labor/employment lawyers in New York, and he is ranked by Legal 500 and ABA/IBA Who's Who of Management Labour & Employment Lawyers. Ethisphere named Don as the only employment lawyer in the U.S. on its list of "2010 Attorneys Who Matter." As an adjunct law school professor he teaches International Employment Law and European Union Law. He has spoken worldwide (in English and Spanish) and published dozens of articles on international employment and international data privacy law, including articles in law journals of the ABA and of Cornell and Northwestern University law schools, and including chapters in books published by Matthew Bender, Thomson/West, Kluwer, PLI, Aspen, and others. One of his articles is excerpted in two different West Group casebooks, and another has been cited by a state supreme court. He is a member of the advisory boards of editors of the publications EuroWatch, International HR Journal, and the International Labor & Employment Laws treatise series, and the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law.

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