#43 - Building a Fair and Equitable Workplace - A Discussion with Bree Johnson, an Employee Rights Attorney

Author: Tanya Wilson
Published: Wed 03 May 2023
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Building a Fair and Equitable Workplace - A Discussion with Bree Johnson, an Employee Rights Attorney

As an employee rights attorney, Bree Johnson advocates for employees harmed in the workplace who chose to give power to their truth. She is passionate about standing up to powerful adversaries with claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, and unlawful or unethical workplace actions.

In addition to representing employees, Bree is a consultant and speaker helping leaders who feel stuck or continue to run into "the way we've always done things", working to improve work culture from the inside out. With over 12 years of legal operations and strategy experience partnering with executives and businesses, Bree leads transformational efforts to energize workplaces and departments to be highly profitable, human-centered, and progressive organizations.

Bree is also a mom of two boys and an entrepreneur's wife. She lives in Minnesota and love lattes, flowers, and lake boating.

What we chat about:

Sexual harassment, Sexual Misconduct in the workplace.
What is considered discrimination in the workplace
The importance of having a sexual harassment policy in place and why it’s important to talk about it (even if you don’t have an employee manual)
How to educate employees on how to report if they experience harassment
What other kinds of harassment happen in the workplace?
How to receive complaints and how to handle them.
Realize that if you keep doing things “the way they’ve always been” you may be putting yourself in hot water.
Changing the culture surrounding harassment in the home service industry
Toxic Workplaces - what to do and how to change it
We talk bullying at work and if that is or isn’t discrimination

Want to learn more about Bree Johnson’s Community?