Canceling Anti-Racism Training Weakens Agency Liability Shields - Bloomberg Law

Heather Brock, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer and shareholder in the firm's Labor & Employment section, is quoted in a Bloomberg Law article, "Canceling Anti-Racism Training Weakens Agency Liability Shields"

"That's going to be hard for government employers to prove if they can't show that there was training around the policy," said Heather Brock, an attorney and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

One of the first issues raised during depositions of an employer facing harassment claims is its anti-harassment training, to determine how well their workers were educated on the companies' policies, Brock said.