Diversity and Discrimination for Employees

Course Length: 60 minutes

This program is an informative and interactive course designed to help your employees learn or refresh their knowledge on the difficult, yet important, issue of diversity and discrimination in the workplace. There are discrimination laws all employees must know, but this course also educates on what it means to embrace diversity - and the benefits we all gain, personally and professionally.

OVERVIEW:

• Aimed at general employees in a variety of workplace environments.
• Covers the following topics:
• What diversity means
• Benefits and challenges of a diverse workforce
• How discrimination happens
• What circumstances can lead to a charge of discrimination
• Who is covered by "protected classes"
• Other types of discrimination

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define diversity, inclusion, discrimination, adverse action, and protected class.
• Describe benefits and challenges of having a diverse workplace.
• Identify the two main types of discrimination.
• Identify the organization that enforces most anti-discrimination laws.
• Explain how anti-discrimination laws apply.
• Explain how claims of discrimination are investigated.
• Explain how retaliation can occur.
• Explain how the EEOC and states enforce anti-discrimination laws.
• Identify the protected classes.
• Identify other types of discrimination that are not enforced by the EEOC.