Eastern Shore SHRM is excited to announce that Tonya Lennox will present 2022 EEOC Update on November 15, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. This presentation will be held at Dove Pointe on 1225 Mt. Hermon Road in Salisbury, MD. A virtual option will also be offered.
Tonya Lennox was appointed in January 2022, as the Outreach and Education Coordinator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Philadelphia District Office and manages Regions including Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, S. Jersey, Cleveland, Ohio, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia outreach training and public affairs program.
Ms. Lennox is a member of the EEOC’s training workgroup, and which provides knowledge and skills training to agency investigators and staff. She is a recipient of myriad awards, which recently included as a recipient of the agency’s “Circle of Excellence Award” in 2021, which is the highest honor bestowed to a staff member by the Chair of EEOC. She began her federal career as a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Marshals Service. She also performed similar duties with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In addition, she served as a human resource management official at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Ms. Lennox began her fifteen plus year career with the EEOC as an investigator in the Little Rock Area Office, located in Arkansas. She has also served as a senior investigator in Richmond, Virginia, and Oklahoma City Area Office, located in Oklahoma. Building on her stellar investigative skills, she was promoted to serve as a supervisor, along with serving as a senior member of the Enforcement management team in the Charlotte District Office’s Raleigh Area Office, located in the state of North Carolina. She joined the Philadelphia District’s Baltimore Field Office in 2020.
She is a graduate of both the University of Guam in the Marianas Islands and the Southern Nazarene University, in Oklahoma, receiving her bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management.
Ms. Lennox will help participants identify employer best practices to prevent and remedy unlawful harassment; identify EEOC’s strategic enforcement priorities so they can review their policies and practices to avoid discrimination claims, including any addressing any of their barriers to recruitment and hiring that can cause employment discrimination; review maximum leave policies to ensure that they don’t violate the reasonable accommodation requirements of the ADA; review their current employment practices to ensure compliance with federal EEO laws.
This presentation has been preapproved for both 1.0 SHRM and 1.0 HRCI credits.
To Register:
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About Eastern Shore SHRM
ES SHRM is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management. Whether you are new to the HR field or have many years of experience, we are a local starting point for networking, information, professional development and continued support of excellence in Human Resources. Our chapter represents Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne, Talbot, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties in Maryland, Sussex County in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
