The Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace, Sam M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas, is holding a brown bag lunch on "Diversity, Religion and EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) Compliance,"
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The program, held in Willard J. Walker Hall, room 203, will be taught by Missy Leflar, director of the City of Fayetteville human resources department.
The session is open to the faculty, staff, students and the public. Attendees can get credit toward the diversity certificate.
Contact Dana Collins, danac@uark.edu, 479-575-6103, instructor in the University of Arkansas human resources department, for more information about the
diversity certificate and credit for attending this session.
Judith Neal, director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality, said, "Many people are curious about or even intrigued by the idea of creating
organizations that are faith-friendly and more nourishing to the human spirit. A recent Gallup Poll reports that 94 percent of Americans believe in
God or a universal spirit, and 77 percent pray outside of religious services. Seventy-nine percent believe that open expression of religion in the
workplace should either be encouraged (32 percent) or tolerated (47 percent). Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends 2010, states that spirituality
in the workplace is the most important and largest of the seven Megatrends she discovered in her research." Leflar will explain the laws on religious
harassment and discrimination and will answer questions regarding what is legal. Given the significant interest in faith and spirituality in the workplace,
many people are concerned about what you can and cannot say, and what you can and cannot do. People do not want to offend co-workers or clients, and they do
not want to be sued.
Leflar earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law. Her background includes employment related litigation and mediation,
employment law seminar instruction, workers' compensation litigation, authoring an employment law internet course for the University of Arkansas, serving
as an adjunct professor of business law for the Walton College at the University of Arkansas and working in human resource management in a corporate environment.
The Tyson Center will provide water. Salads or sandwiches can be purchased next door at the Cole Café in Walker Hall before the brown bag begins.
Contact:
Judith Neal, director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace
Sam M. Walton College of Business
(479) 575-3721,
jneal@walton.uark.edu
Dixie Kline, director of communications
Sam M. Walton College of Business
(479) 575-2539,
dkline@walton.uark.edu@walton.uark.edu
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