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    New Developments at the EEOC

    Date: February 18, 2016, 11:15am – 1:00pm
    Organizer:
    Julie Bretz, EEOC
    Location:
    Elgin Community College, University & Business Center- Dining Room, 1700 Spartan Drive - Building E, Elgin, Illinois 60123
    Price:
    $20 - members; $25 - member's guests; $40 - non-members for all monthly programs unless otherwise indicated.
    Event Type:
    Meeting
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    This program will cover new developments at the EEOC, current Strategic Enforcement Priorities and the mediation program.   New development covered include the EEOC's move to digital charge processing and National Universal Agreements to Mediate.

    About the presenter: Julie Bretz is a Supervisory ADR Attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Chicago. She began her employment with EEOC’s Milwaukee Office in March of 1994 as a Trial Attorney. Prior to becoming an Administrative Judge in 1997, Julie was detailed to implement the District Office’s mediation program in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. Julie transferred to the EEOC’s Chicago District Office in 2009 where she continues to oversee the District’s Mediation Program. Julie has been mediating both federal and private sector workplace disputes since 1997and has mediated hundreds of the EEOC’s more challenging cases. Julie is a member of the EEOC’s Advanced Mediation Training Team and has provided extensive mediation training to mediators throughout the EEOC and her District. She is active in several sections of the American Bar Association, including the Labor and Employment Section and the Section on Dispute Resolution. Julie is a former member of the Council of the Section for Dispute Resolution and served for three years on the Editorial Board of the Section’s quarterly publication, Dispute Resolution Magazine. Julie is a graduate of Wellesley College in Boston, Massachusetts and Case Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland, Ohio.

     

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