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2017 Employment Law & Legislative Conference
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Commissioner Chai Feldblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will discuss and answer your questions about the latest developments in equal opportunity policy, recent guidance and promising practices to combat workplace harassment, and the outlook for the Commission and its priorities.

You will also hear from Deputy Assistant Secretary, Jennifer Sheehy, of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) who will talk about ODEP's resources for employers and the collaboration with SHRM to increase the employment of individuals with disabilities.

 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 12:15pm to 2:00pm
Presenter: 
Chai Feldblum
commissioner
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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Chai Feldblum began her service as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2010. She was confirmed by the Senate for a second term, which will end on July 1, 2018. During Commissioner Feldblum's service on the Commission, she has focused on all the employment civil rights issues within the jurisdiction of the EEOC. She has focused in particular on the employment of people with disabilities, pregnancy accommodation, sexual orientation and transgender discrimination, harassment prevention, the structure and process of the federal sector complaint system and strategic planning for the Commission. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Feldblum was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She founded the Law Center's Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which represented a range of organizational clients focused on social justice. She also founded Workplace Flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and was one of the drafters of the original Employment Nondiscrimination Act. Commissioner Feldblum is the first openly lesbian Commissioner of the EEOC and is the fourth person with a disability to serve on the Commission. Commissioner Feldblum clerked for Judge Frank Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun after receiving her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College.
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Jennifer Sheehy
deputy assistant secretary
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
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Jennifer Sheehy is the Deputy Assistant Secretary, leading the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), US Department of Labor.  The mission of ODEP is to develop policies to increase the number and quality of employment opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities. Prior to her current position, Jennifer spent ten years at the US Department of Education in many roles, including acting Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, acting Deputy Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.  Jennifer came to the Department of Education from the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities where she was Senior Policy Advisor and served a detail as Associate Director in the White House Domestic Policy Council.  Before she joined the task force staff, Jennifer was Vice President of the National Organization on Disability and Director of its CEO Council.  She has worked for Marriott, Sheraton, and Anheuser-Busch and has received many civic and leadership honors.  Jennifer earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from Georgetown University.  

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Grand Ballroom
Amount of Credit: 
1.00
Credit Type: 
•SHRM PDCs
Session Type: 
General Session
Competency: 
HR Expertise

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