
Ground Rules: Employment Law Over Your Coffee Break
Hosted by Jennifer Walrath and Pam Howland and Doug Plass · Pam Howland
5.0from 16 ratings
- 90
- Episodes
- 41
- Transcribed
- 16
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Ground Rules: Employment Law Over Your Coffee Break
Hosted by seasoned attorney Pam Howland, alongside attorneys Jennifer Walrath and Doug Plass, Ground Rules delivers employment law insights in bite-sized weekly episodes. With decades of courtroom experience, this dynamic trio has seen the costly consequences of legal missteps for employers—and they're here to help you avoid them. Perfect for business owners, HR professionals, and supervisors, this podcast is your go-to guide for staying ahead of the curve on employment law, fostering compliant workplaces, and keeping your business out of the courthouse. Grab your coffee, tune in, and gain practical tips to protect and empower your team.
- Publisher
- Pam Howland
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jan 2025
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
41 of 90 episodes have a transcript.

7 Oct 2026
EEOC Enforcement in Action: Recent Cases and Employer Takeaways

30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Employer’s End-of-Year Checklist

23 Sept 2026
Reverse Discrimination: The EEOC's Latest Message to Employers
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The Employer’s End-of-Year Checklist
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Does your harassment policy, anti-harassment policy, does it account for things like... deepfake harassment, like harassment via technology, right? There might be revisions to some of your longtime policies to reflect what's changed and what's going on in the world around us. I had on their Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, relatively new, 2023. We know that's an enforcement priority of the EEOC. And I would just say that every employer is should give a little thought as the year winds down to what happened in the workplace this year and were there any events any problems any conflict anything that happened where you were thinking boy our policy does not address this and i wish it did because that is also a great reason to update your handbook like was there something that went wrong Was there something in your policy that didn't work the way you wanted it to? […]
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- Laegan Meyers
- Ann Smith
- Megan Renaldo
- Ally Ross
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- 12 ratings
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- 4 ratings
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Who hosts Ground Rules: Employment Law Over Your Coffee Break?
Jennifer Walrath and Pam Howland and Doug Plass host the show. Published by Pam Howland.
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