ELI in the News

With decades of experience in delivering innovative learning solutions, leadership at ELI is often sought to provide expert commentary for the news media. Our experts provide insightful views, thought leadership, and opinions on a variety of topics related to building a legal and ethical environment and aligning workplace culture with organizational values. Here you’ll find links to recent articles written by or citing ELI experts.

World at Work
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at companies are a priority among job seekers, with 63% of respondents across generations in a recent Ernst & Young (EY) surveyOpen in a new tab preferring companies that prioritize DEI. Younger workers place an even higher priority on the initiatives — 73% of Gen Z respondents and 68% of Millennials.
Human Resource Executive
The EEOC’s newly adopted strategic enforcement plan aims to increase the public’s access to the EEOC and increase investigation training and resources. The plan describes the EEOC’s vision of fair and inclusive workplaces and details expanded efforts to reduce systemic barriers to equal opportunity, including an enhanced focus on identifying offenses and additional staff and resources for enforcement.
SHRM
Customers who abuse, insult or harass a company’s employees can be a nightmare. An employer’s options for dealing with them are limited, but managers can help. “Dealing with a threatening customer or client is a challenge, especially in the modern environment where there is a concern that escalation will lead to actual violence,” said David Barron, an attorney with Cozen O’Connor in Houston and Chicago.
Law360
Employer diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are under fire in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s dissolution of affirmative action in college admissions, and attorneys say the U.S. Equal Employment…
Law360
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is looking to go after big discrimination cases with broad impact as part of a newly implemented strategy that runs through 2026, a blueprint that…
SHRM
Days after 13 Republican state attorneys general warned Fortune 100 leaders to end racial preferences in hiring practices, a group of their Democratic counterparts encouraged these same companies to continue pursuing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) goals. Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general, across 20 states and Washington, D.C., wrote in a July 19 letter that corporate DE&I programs remain legal, applauded employers for their diversity and inclusion efforts, and condemned the Republican letter’s “tone of intimidation.”
HR Drive
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last Thursday holding that admission programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were unconstitutional could affect employers’ diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to stakeholders. Joelle Emerson, co-founder and CEO of DEI consulting firm Paradigm, wrote in a June 29 blog post that while the 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard would not directly govern employer practices that aim to increase diversity and inclusion, a “chilling effect on corporation action on DEI” may be a consequence in the immediate future.
Compliance Week
On July 13, 13 Republican attorneys general wrote a letter to leaders of Fortune 100 companies warning them against using race as a factor in hiring and promotion decisions and threatening legal action if the companies did not comply. Although the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply directly to private companies, the Supreme Court’s majority opinion and the letter argue Title VI and Title VII apply the same principles.
Law 360
An ongoing war of words between Republican and Democratic state attorneys general underscores the potential for legal challenges to corporate diversity, equity and inclusion measures based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s…
StrategicCHRO360
As a former litigator against EEOC and other employment law violations, Stephen Paskoff has a distinctive perspective on how to appropriately coach employers on DEI initiatives, compliance and “workplace civility.” Paskoff, CEO of Atlanta-based workplace training company ELI (Employment Learning Innovations), spoke with StrategicCHRO360 about his own path to DEI work, how to navigate divergent opinions on the subject and where workplace culture meets compliance.
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