Inner Workings of the MCAD
Hear directly from MCAD personnel and private practitioners
- Product Number: 2250169P01
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First established in 1946 as the Fair Employment Practices Commission with a staff of two and three volunteer commissioners, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) now occupies a central role in investigating and prosecuting claims of employment discrimination involving Massachusetts employees and employers. All claimants wishing to vindicate their rights under Massachusetts anti-employment-discrimination statutes must first file their cases with the MCAD.
Attend this program for a unique opportunity to meet and hear from the MCAD’s senior hearing officer, the MCAD’s senior attorney advisor, an MCAD compliance officer supervisor, and experienced practitioners who regularly handle cases before the Commission. Hear them explain the intake and investigation process—including position statements and rebuttals, opportunities for alternative dispute resolution, the discovery and public hearing process, the impact of the Commission’s revised procedural regulations, and other changes at the Commission. For practitioners new to the MCAD, this program provides a valuable explanation of the Commission’s inner workings at every stage of its investigation and enforcement process. For experienced practitioners, the program offers an opportunity to hear directly from key Commission officials and improve your efficacy in advocating for your clients, whether employees or employers. Bring your questions!
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2:00 - 2:05 pm
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Program 3
Employment Law Issues & Opportunities in Remote Work
Many employers are considering reconfiguring their workplaces due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and incorporating work-from-home on a more routine basis. Learn about the potential opportunities and issues from both the employee and management-side perspectives, including recommended best practices for employers.,
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2:05 - 3:30 pm
MCAD Intake and Investigation Process
on demand video Add to Cart- Intake and Complaints: how intake works, how complaints are processed, online filing, what information to provide, what materials to bring/include, best practices, legal issues that may arise at this stage, brief overview of the investigation process
- Opportunities for Early Mediation
- Position Statements and Rebuttals: their function, best practices, legal issues
- Investigative Conferences: their function, how they work, best practices, legal issues
- Pre-determination Discovery and Motion Practice at the MCAD
- Causal Determinations: what they are, who participates in decision, standard for probable cause/ lack of probable cause, motions to reconsider probable cause finding, appeal
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Preventing and Resolving Potential Accommodation/Retaliation Issues for Remote Workers Who Seek to Use Sick or FMLA Leave
on demand video Add to CartJames S. Weliky, Esq., Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, PC , Newton
Gina Leonard, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
Lila Roberts, Esq., Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
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Ensuring Accurate Time-Keeping of Remote Workers
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3:35 - 4:10 pm
MCAD Post-Cause Proceedings
on demand video Add to Cart- Conciliation: how it works, best practices
- Post-Certification Discovery: how it works, best practices, legal issues
- Discovery Disputes
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Program 4
Mastering Remote Productivity & Document Management Outside the Office
Recent events highlight the need for lawyers and their staff to access documents remotely. As a result, working with traditional paper files has become a challenge, if not a practical impossibility. Because documents remain the foundation of everything lawyers do, they must adopt workflows to assure that they can access, edit and manipulate their electronic documents as efficiently as possible. In this program, practicing attorney and technology consultant Daniel J. Siegel outlines how to organize and access data and information with ease, name files uniformly, and work with in-office and remote systems to assure that your documents are always synchronized. -
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Sharing Documents With Clients in a Secure, Encrypted and Confidential Manner
on demand video Add to CartJames S. Weliky, Esq., Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, PC , Newton
Jason B. Barshak, Esq., Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
Patrice Dixon, Esq., Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP , Boston
Lila Roberts, Esq., Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
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4:10 - 4:50 pm
MCAD Public Hearing Process
on demand video Add to Cart- Certification and Pre-Hearing Conferences: what they are, how they work, best practices
- Conduct of the Public Hearing: preparing for the public hearing (practitioners), opening statements, evidence (applicability of rules, how it's entered, best practices, disputes)
- Remedies: what you get, evidence to support, best practices
- Proposed Findings: what they are, function, best practices
- Full Commission review
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Program 5
Cyber Security Threats & Best Practices in the Remote World of COVID-19
What are the privacy and security considerations you need to know to manage the threat and compliance environments in a workplace that has largely, and very recently, become remote? Learn what's unique—and what isn't—about the current online organizational work environment. -
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What Makes the Remote Workplace Different from the "Ordinary" Workplace?
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Current Threats Organizations Are Facing in the Remote Workplace
on demand video Add to CartJames S. Weliky, Esq., Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, PC , Newton
Jason B. Barshak, Esq., Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
Patrice Dixon, Esq., Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP , Boston
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4:50 - 5:00 pm
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4:50 - 5:00 pm
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