Legal compliance is vitally important to organizations today, and "getting it right" from an employment law perspective is a business imperative.

At the same time, managing workplace issues has never been more complex. The law of the workplace has become increasingly decentralized, with a mosaic of intersecting federal, state and local law requirements. In turn, this creates more compliance challenges relative to employee protections and employer obligations.

That challenge is increasingly more important and the stakes are unequivocally higher, in light of the new enforcement philosophy of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency empowered to enforce anti-discrimination laws, which has become more of an activist in a Democratic administration.

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